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Gerrard Winstanley

1609 - 1676

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Gerrard Winstanley (baptised 19 October 1609 – 10 September 1676) was an English Protestant religious reformer, political philosopher, and activist during the period of the Commonwealth of England. Winstanley was the leader and one of the founders of the English group known as the True Levellers or Diggers. The group occupied formerly common land that had been privatised by enclosures and dug them over, pulling down hedges and filling in ditches, to plant crops. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gerrard Winstanley has received more than 365,979 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Gerrard Winstanley is the 14,213th most popular politician (down from 11,989th in 2019), the 3,432nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,747th in 2019) and the 463rd most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Gerrard Winstanley ranks 14,213 out of 19,576. Before him are Elise Ottesen-Jensen, Helen of Zadar, Gopinath Bordoloi, Juan Bautista Pérez, Ernest Bai Koroma, and Thomas Madsen-Mygdal. After him are Sergei Sidorsky, Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, Otto, Duke of Lorraine, Gottfried Ludolf Camphausen, John Armstrong Jr., and Gnaeus Papirius Carbo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1609, Gerrard Winstanley ranks 20. Before him are Maria Gonzaga, Duchess of Montferrat, Ernest Günther, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, Pierre-Paul Riquet, Paul Fleming, Jean Rotrou, and Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon. After him are Robert Moray, and John Suckling. Among people deceased in 1676, Gerrard Winstanley ranks 22. Before him are Saib Tabrizi, Anna de' Medici, Archduchess of Austria, Nicolò Sagredo, Gisbertus Voetius, Jean Desmarets, and Duchess Elisabeth Sophie of Mecklenburg. After him is Metacomet.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Gerrard Winstanley ranks 3,432 out of 8,785. Before him are Joe Jackson (1954), Wilfred Baddeley (1872), Stanley Spencer (1891), E. L. James (1963), Peter Davison (1951), and Tony Martin (1957). After him are Peter Molyneux (1959), Val McDermid (1955), Samantha Bond (1961), Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet (1628), David Lloyd (1950), and John Alcott (1930).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Gerrard Winstanley ranks 463. Before him are Philippa, 5th Countess of Ulster (1355), William Bradford (1590), John de la Pole, 1st Earl of Lincoln (1462), Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow (1887), John Shakespeare (1530), and Algernon Sidney (1623). After him are Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet (1628), Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey (1768), Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer (1964), Keir Starmer (1962), Cherie Blair (1954), and Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne (1845).

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