SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Gloria Steinem

1934 - Today

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Gloria Marie Steinem ( STY-nəm; born March 25, 1934) is an American journalist and social-political activist who emerged as a nationally recognized leader of second-wave feminism in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Steinem was a columnist for New York magazine and a co-founder of Ms. magazine. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gloria Steinem has received more than 9,760,607 page views. Her biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Gloria Steinem is the 219th most popular social activist (down from 189th in 2019), the 2,211th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,916th in 2019) and the 25th most popular American Social Activist.

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  • 9.8M

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  • 57.16

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 53

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.40

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.85

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Gloria Steinem ranks 219 out of 840Before her are Balthasar Gérard, Ravachol, Franciszek Gajowniczek, Sophia Perovskaya, Anna Hazare, and Soh Jaipil. After her are Hanan Ashrawi, Czesława Kwoka, Guillaume Cale, Huber Matos, Hrant Dink, and Hanns Martin Schleyer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Gloria Steinem ranks 116Before her are Tony Hoare, Princess Maria Pia of Bourbon-Parma, Joan Didion, Omar Karami, Kira Muratova, and Paul Cohen. After her are Howard Martin Temin, Wilford Brimley, Jean Chrétien, Dashrath Manjhi, Hank Aaron, and William F. Sharpe.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Gloria Steinem ranks 2,211 out of 20,380Before her are Suzanne Collins (1962), Kim Hunter (1922), Alice Ball (1892), Raymond E. Feist (1945), Selena Gomez (1992), and William Le Baron Jenney (1832). After her are Robert Sternberg (1949), Brenda Lee (1944), Ben Webster (1909), Dennis Wilson (1944), Curtis LeMay (1906), and Kate Capshaw (1953).

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Gloria Steinem ranks 25Before her are Sojourner Truth (1797), Billy Milligan (1955), Emmett Till (1941), Edward Snowden (1983), Fred Phelps (1929), and Margaret Sanger (1879). After her are W. E. B. Du Bois (1868), David Lane (1938), George Lincoln Rockwell (1918), Russell Means (1939), Coretta Scott King (1927), and Jesse Jackson (1941).