SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Guy Fawkes

1570 - 1606

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Guy Fawkes (; 13 April 1570 – 31 January 1606), also known as Guido Fawkes while fighting for the Spanish, was a member of a group of provincial English Catholics involved in the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605. He was born and educated in York; his father died when Fawkes was eight years old, after which his mother married a recusant Catholic. Fawkes converted to Catholicism and left for mainland Europe, where he fought for Catholic Spain in the Eighty Years' War against Protestant Dutch reformers in the Low Countries. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Guy Fawkes has received more than 16,361,753 page views. His biography is available in 70 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 69 in 2019). Guy Fawkes is the 26th most popular social activist (down from 16th in 2019), the 173rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 92nd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular British Social Activist.

Guy Fawkes was a Catholic who wanted to assassinate King James I of England and replace him with a Catholic monarch. He planned to blow up the House of Lords during the State Opening of Parliament on November 5, 1605. He was caught in the act and tortured.

Memorability Metrics

  • 16M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 71.44

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 70

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.48

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.63

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Guy Fawkes by language

Over the past year Guy Fawkes has had the most page views in the with 1,529,766 views, followed by German (121,959), and Russian (107,004). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Kurdish (Kurmanji) (355.47%), Icelandic (227.02%), and Norwegian (Nynorsk) (165.19%)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Guy Fawkes ranks 26 out of 840. Before him are Peter Kropotkin, Robert Owen, Bertha von Suttner, Thomas Müntzer, Olympe de Gouges, and Charlotte Corday. After him are Irena Sendler, Simon bar Kokhba, Omar Mukhtar, Emily Greene Balch, Hassan al-Banna, and Élie Ducommun.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1570, Guy Fawkes ranks 1. After him are Hans Lippershey, Henry Hudson, Willem Janszoon, Jan Janszoon, Johann II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Kara Davud Pasha, Giorgi Saakadze, Alessandro Salvio, Abraham Janssens, Hendrick van Balen the Elder, and Péter Pázmány. Among people deceased in 1606, Guy Fawkes ranks 1. After him are False Dmitry I, Justus Lipsius, Karel van Mander, Stephen Bocskai, Alessandro Valignano, Guru Arjan, Boşnak Derviş Mehmed Pasha, Giovanni Andrea Doria, Johann VI, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg, Turibius of Mogrovejo, and Sokolluzade Lala Mehmed Pasha.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Guy Fawkes ranks 173 out of 8,785. Before him are William Ramsay (1852), Brian May (1947), Roger Waters (1943), Anthony Eden (1897), Duns Scotus (1265), and George Boole (1815). After him are John Milton (1608), George Best (1946), Edward Smith (1850), Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank (1935), Boudica (33), and Aleister Crowley (1875).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United Kingdom

Among social activists born in United Kingdom, Guy Fawkes ranks 3. Before him are Nicholas Winton (1909), and Robert Owen (1771). After him are Lady Godiva (990), Emmeline Pankhurst (1858), Betty Williams (1943), Thomas Cranmer (1489), Annie Besant (1847), Mairead Maguire (1944), Emily Davison (1872), Max Mosley (1940), and Sylvia Pankhurst (1882).

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