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SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Gerald Durrell

1925 - 1995

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Gerald Malcolm Durrell, (7 January 1925 – 30 January 1995) was a British naturalist, writer, zookeeper, conservationist, and television presenter. He founded the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust and the Jersey Zoo on the Channel Island of Jersey in 1959. He wrote approximately forty books, mainly about his life as an animal collector and enthusiast, the most famous being My Family and Other Animals (1956). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gerald Durrell has received more than 4,004,076 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Gerald Durrell is the 86th most popular social activist (up from 101st in 2019), the 89th most popular biography from India (up from 99th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Indian Social Activist.

Gerald Durrell is most famous for his book "My Family and Other Animals" which is about his childhood on the island of Corfu.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Gerald Durrell ranks 86 out of 538. Before him are Axel Munthe, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, Liu Xiaobo, Edmond James de Rothschild, Bugsy Siegel, and Sakamoto Ryōma. After him are Dragutin Dimitrijević, Amílcar Cabral, Errico Malatesta, Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad, Fra Dolcino, and Augusto César Sandino.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Gerald Durrell ranks 47. Before him are Bert Hellinger, Ernst Happel, Milton Obote, Sam Peckinpah, Oona O'Neill, and Luciano Berio. After him are Robert Venturi, Sibghatullah Mojaddedi, Jacques Delors, George Kennedy, Roy J. Glauber, and Barbara Bush. Among people deceased in 1995, Gerald Durrell ranks 29. Before him are Patricia Highsmith, Hannes Alfvén, Fred Perry, Lana Turner, Maurizio Gucci, and Ginger Rogers. After him are Milovan Đilas, Christian B. Anfinsen, Hugo Pratt, Don Cherry, Murray Rothbard, and Souphanouvong.

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In India

Among people born in India, Gerald Durrell ranks 89 out of 1,493. Before him are Sher Shah Suri (1486), Vātsyāyana (300), Cliff Richard (1940), Tukaram (1608), Sarojini Naidu (1879), and Nathuram Godse (1910). After him are Mahākāśyapa (-550), Satyendra Nath Bose (1894), Chandragupta II (400), Vishvamitra (-2000), Guru Gobind Singh (1666), and Varāhamihira (505).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In India

Among social activists born in India, Gerald Durrell ranks 5. Before him are Mahatma Gandhi (1869), Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856), Lal Bahadur Shastri (1904), and Kasturba Gandhi (1869). After him are Syed Ahmad Khan (1817), Gopal Krishna Gokhale (1866), Vinoba Bhave (1895), Mangal Pandey (1827), Kittur Chennamma (1778), Kailash Satyarthi (1954), and Vandana Shiva (1952).

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