1818 - 1895
Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, c. February 1817 or February 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. He became the most important leader of the movement for African-American civil rights in the 19th century. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, Douglass became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, during which he gained fame for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frederick Douglass has received more than 15,520,534 page views. His biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). Frederick Douglass is the 135th most popular social activist (down from 129th in 2019), the 1,304th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,365th in 2019) and the 16th most popular American Social Activist.
Frederick Douglass is most famous for his autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave.
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Among social activists, Frederick Douglass ranks 135 out of 538. Before him are Meng Huo, Gerda Christian, John Brown, Mangal Pandey, Sergey Nechayev, and Leila Khaled. After him are Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, Klaus Störtebeker, Mairead Maguire, Betty Ford, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, and Ishikawa Goemon.
101 - 300
HPI: 60.63
Rank: 129
1913 - 1997
HPI: 60.56
Rank: 130
1800 - 1859
HPI: 60.51
Rank: 131
1827 - 1857
HPI: 60.39
Rank: 132
1847 - 1882
HPI: 60.37
Rank: 133
1944 - Present
HPI: 60.37
Rank: 134
1818 - 1895
HPI: 60.35
Rank: 135
1208 - 1265
HPI: 60.32
Rank: 136
1360 - 1401
HPI: 60.16
Rank: 137
1944 - Present
HPI: 60.16
Rank: 138
1918 - 2011
HPI: 60.11
Rank: 139
1931 - Present
HPI: 60.08
Rank: 140
1558 - 1594
HPI: 60.07
Rank: 141
Among people born in 1818, Frederick Douglass ranks 21. Before him are Emperor Norton, Charles III, Prince of Monaco, Leconte de Lisle, Sophie of Württemberg, Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria, and August Wilhelm von Hofmann. After him are Angelo Secchi, Mary Todd Lincoln, Thomas Mayne Reid, Amalia of Oldenburg, Richard Jordan Gatling, and François d'Orléans, Prince of Joinville. Among people deceased in 1895, Frederick Douglass ranks 17. Before him are Isma'il Pasha, Friedrich Miescher, Franz von Suppé, Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen, Arthur Cayley, and Julia, Princess of Battenberg. After him are Johann Josef Loschmidt, Nikolai Leskov, Lord Randolph Churchill, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, John Russell Hind, and Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet.
1818 - 1880
HPI: 62.94
Rank: 15
1818 - 1889
HPI: 62.51
Rank: 16
1818 - 1894
HPI: 62.09
Rank: 17
1818 - 1877
HPI: 61.20
Rank: 18
1818 - 1874
HPI: 61.03
Rank: 19
1818 - 1892
HPI: 60.93
Rank: 20
1818 - 1895
HPI: 60.35
Rank: 21
1818 - 1878
HPI: 60.06
Rank: 22
1818 - 1882
HPI: 59.96
Rank: 23
1818 - 1883
HPI: 59.95
Rank: 24
1818 - 1875
HPI: 59.85
Rank: 25
1818 - 1903
HPI: 59.27
Rank: 26
1818 - 1900
HPI: 59.19
Rank: 27
1830 - 1895
HPI: 65.63
Rank: 11
1844 - 1895
HPI: 64.79
Rank: 12
1819 - 1895
HPI: 64.17
Rank: 13
1817 - 1895
HPI: 63.66
Rank: 14
1821 - 1895
HPI: 61.70
Rank: 15
1825 - 1895
HPI: 61.51
Rank: 16
1818 - 1895
HPI: 60.35
Rank: 17
1821 - 1895
HPI: 60.22
Rank: 18
1831 - 1895
HPI: 60.02
Rank: 19
1849 - 1895
HPI: 58.91
Rank: 20
1825 - 1895
HPI: 58.09
Rank: 21
1823 - 1895
HPI: 57.44
Rank: 22
1810 - 1895
HPI: 57.38
Rank: 23
Among people born in United States, Frederick Douglass ranks 1,304 out of 18,182. Before him are Kelly McGillis (1957), Lucille Ball (1911), George Carlin (1937), Raymond A. Spruance (1886), Larry Bird (1956), and Nora Roberts (1950). After him are Harrison Schmitt (1935), Linda Lee Cadwell (1945), Cass Elliot (1941), Gordon Moore (1929), F. Sherwood Rowland (1927), and Benjamin Bloom (1913).
1957 - Present
HPI: 60.37
Rank: 1,298
1911 - 1989
HPI: 60.36
Rank: 1,299
1937 - 2008
HPI: 60.36
Rank: 1,300
1886 - 1969
HPI: 60.35
Rank: 1,301
1956 - Present
HPI: 60.35
Rank: 1,302
1950 - Present
HPI: 60.35
Rank: 1,303
1818 - 1895
HPI: 60.35
Rank: 1,304
1935 - Present
HPI: 60.34
Rank: 1,305
1945 - Present
HPI: 60.34
Rank: 1,306
1941 - 1974
HPI: 60.34
Rank: 1,307
1929 - 2023
HPI: 60.33
Rank: 1,308
1927 - 2012
HPI: 60.33
Rank: 1,309
1913 - 1999
HPI: 60.31
Rank: 1,310
Among social activists born in United States, Frederick Douglass ranks 16. Before him are Jimmy Hoffa (1913), Bugsy Siegel (1906), Susan B. Anthony (1820), Jody Williams (1950), George Stinney (1929), and John Brown (1800). After him are Betty Ford (1918), Edward Snowden (1983), Margaret Sanger (1879), Fred Phelps (1929), W. E. B. Du Bois (1868), and Gloria Steinem (1934).
1913 - 1975
HPI: 65.03
Rank: 10
1906 - 1947
HPI: 63.55
Rank: 11
1820 - 1906
HPI: 62.33
Rank: 12
1950 - Present
HPI: 61.65
Rank: 13
1929 - 1944
HPI: 61.53
Rank: 14
1800 - 1859
HPI: 60.51
Rank: 15
1818 - 1895
HPI: 60.35
Rank: 16
1918 - 2011
HPI: 60.11
Rank: 17
1983 - Present
HPI: 59.54
Rank: 18
1879 - 1966
HPI: 59.50
Rank: 19
1929 - 2014
HPI: 58.07
Rank: 20
1868 - 1963
HPI: 57.76
Rank: 21
1934 - Present
HPI: 57.66
Rank: 22