SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Harry Wu

1937 - 2016

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Harry Wu (Chinese: 吴弘达; pinyin: Wú Hóngdá; February 8, 1937 – April 26, 2016) was a Chinese-American human rights activist. Wu spent 19 years in Chinese labor camps, and he became a resident and citizen of the United States. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Harry Wu has received more than 203,499 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Harry Wu is the 339th most popular social activist (up from 359th in 2019), the 738th most popular biography from China (up from 752nd in 2019) and the 7th most popular Chinese Social Activist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 200k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.56

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.72

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.69

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Harry Wu ranks 339 out of 840. Before him are Mohamed Bouazizi, Sultan al-Atrash, Vladimir Burtsev, Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia, Sergei Kovalev, and Ho Jong-suk. After him are Susannah Mushatt Jones, Greta Thunberg, Gaius Hostilius Mancinus, Catherine Breshkovsky, Anatoly Marchenko, and Sumner Paine.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Harry Wu ranks 238. Before him are Lois Lowry, Cornelis Vreeswijk, Mehdi Karroubi, Edita Piekha, David Mumford, and Keiko Abe. After him are Milutin Šoškić, Jiří Dienstbier, Michael Sata, Boris Cyrulnik, Alice Coltrane, and David Del Tredici. Among people deceased in 2016, Harry Wu ranks 200. Before him are S. R. Nathan, Jay Wright Forrester, Roberto Perfumo, Lars Gustafsson, Frank Sinatra Jr., and Arnold Palmer. After him are Susannah Mushatt Jones, Prince Dimitri Romanov, Hannes Löhr, Ann Morgan Guilbert, David Huddleston, and Michel Delpech.

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In China

Among people born in China, Harry Wu ranks 738 out of 1,610. Before him are Bai Ling (1966), Jiong of Xia (null), Zeng Gong (1019), Lei Jun (1969), Ehmetjan Qasim (1914), and Qian Zhongshu (1910). After him are Ignatius Kung Pin-Mei (1901), Lee Shau-kee (1929), Wang Can (177), Li Shangfu (1958), Wang Zhen (1909), and Li Lisan (1899).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In China

Among social activists born in China, Harry Wu ranks 7. Before him are Liu Xiaobo (1955), Zhang Jue (200), Meng Huo (101), Chen Sheng (-250), Li Hongzhi (1951), and Zhang Guotao (1897). After him are Wei Jingsheng (1950), Chen Qimei (1878), Wu'erkaixi (1968), Wang Dan (1969), Hu Jia (1973), and Chen Guangcheng (1971).

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