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SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Grey Owl

1888 - 1938

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Archibald Stansfeld Belaney (September 18, 1888 – April 13, 1938), commonly known as Grey Owl, was a popular writer, public speaker and conservationist. Born an Englishman, in the latter years of his life he passed as half-Indian, claiming he was the son of a Scottish man and an Apache woman. With books, articles and public appearances promoting wilderness conservation, he achieved fame in the 1930s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Grey Owl has received more than 906,858 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Grey Owl is the 410th most popular social activist (up from 4,278th in 2019), the 3,134th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,247th in 2019) and the 28th most popular British Social Activist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 910k

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  • 47.91

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.43

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.26

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Grey Owl ranks 410 out of 538Before her are William Lloyd Garrison, Romas Kalanta, Ahmed Lutfi el-Sayed, Eugene V. Debs, Otto Warmbier, and Matilda Joslyn Gage. After her are Frances Ames, Abdul Sattar Edhi, Cesar Chavez, Raisa Aronova, Franca Viola, and Giuseppe Impastato.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Grey Owl ranks 168Before her are Marie Rambert, Kārlis Zāle, Juan Antonio Ríos, Florence Lee, Albert Kluyver, and Paul Bernays. After her are Gerhard Ritter, Elisabeth Schumann, Nils Dardel, Marietta Shaginyan, Harry Beaumont, and Edith Evans. Among people deceased in 1938, Grey Owl ranks 152Before her are Édouard-Alfred Martel, Teodor Axentowicz, Víctor Morales, Jørgen-Frantz Jacobsen, Steve Bloomer, and Georgy Langemak. After her are Yevgeny Polivanov, Clarence Darrow, Miguel Fleta, Lev Schnirelmann, Phyllis Allen, and Harvey S. Firestone.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Grey Owl ranks 3,134 out of 7,765Before her are John Arthur Jarvis (1872), Henry Raeburn (1756), Reg Parnell (1911), John Evans (1823), Charles Wyville Thomson (1830), and Charles Avison (1709). After her are Dave Charlton (1936), Charles Crichton (1910), David Murray (1909), Alexander McDonnell (1798), John D. Barrow (1952), and Peter R. Hunt (1925).

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United Kingdom

Among social activists born in United Kingdom, Grey Owl ranks 28Before her are Christabel Pankhurst (1880), James Guillaume (1844), Donald Watson (1910), Venetia Burney (1918), Mary Dyer (1611), and Mary Toft (1703). After her are Jack Sheppard (1702), Octavia Hill (1838), Abdalqadir as-Sufi (1930), Annie Kenney (1879), Hereward the Wake (1035), and Emily Hobhouse (1860).