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George Padmore

1903 - 1959

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George Padmore (28 June 1903 – 23 September 1959), born Malcolm Ivan Meredith Nurse, was a leading Pan-Africanist, journalist, and author. He left his native Trinidad in 1924 to study medicine in the United States, where he also joined the Communist Party. From there he moved to the Soviet Union, where he was active in the party, and working on African independence movements. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Padmore has received more than 213,374 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). George Padmore is the 98th most popular journalist (down from 89th in 2019), the 23rd most popular biography from Trinidad and Tobago and the most popular Trinidadian Journalist.

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  • 210k

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  • 41.00

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.38

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among JOURNALISTS

Among journalists, George Padmore ranks 98 out of 127Before him are Joseph Roffo, Sara Carbonero, Piers Morgan, Frances Benjamin Johnston, Sofía Ímber, and Geraldo Rivera. After him are Daniel Schneidermann, Sydney Schanberg, Homai Vyarawalla, Peter Arnett, Arbana Xharra, and Anja Niedringhaus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, George Padmore ranks 306Before him are Doca, Yoshiyuki Tsuruta, Howard P. Robertson, Lennox Berkeley, Roy Acuff, and Gloria Holden. After him are Tadeusz Friedrich, George E. Stone, Edgar Buchanan, Binnie Barnes, Clare Boothe Luce, and Ernst Klodwig. Among people deceased in 1959, George Padmore ranks 182Before him are Baby Dodds, Gilda Gray, Paul Günther, Frank Vaughn, Nils Granfelt, and Eusebio Díaz. After him are Paul Douglas, Stanley Spencer, Kenneth Anderson, Arvi Pohjanpää, James Gleason, and Al LeConey.

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In Trinidad and Tobago

Among people born in Trinidad and Tobago, George Padmore ranks 23 out of 64Before him are C. L. R. James (1901), Anthony Carmona (1953), Eric Williams (1911), Lorraine Toussaint (1960), Hasely Crawford (1950), and Marian Marsh (1913). After him are Anthony Nesty (1967), Patrick Manning (1946), Kamla Persad-Bissessar (1952), Winston Duke (1986), Ellis Clarke (1917), and Ato Boldon (1973).

Among JOURNALISTS In Trinidad and Tobago

Among journalists born in Trinidad and Tobago, George Padmore ranks 1