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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 196,707 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Harry Wu is the 359th most popular social activist (down from 327th in 2019), the 755th most popular biography from China (down from 693rd in 2019) and the 8th most popular Chinese Social Activist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 200k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.78

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.52

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.93

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Harry Wu ranks 359 out of 538. Before him are Deniz Gezmiş, Mary Dyer, Mary Toft, Dorothy Day, Jerry Rubin, and Claudette Colvin. After him are Leona Vicario, Karl Ludwig Sand, Malala Yousafzai, Mathew Brady, Ivan Bolotnikov, and Sergei Petrovich Trubetskoy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Harry Wu ranks 249. Before him are Gyula Zsivótzky, Johnny Dorelli, Jiří Dienstbier, Seymour Hersh, Carlo Mazzone, and Irina Solovyova. After him are Bobby Driscoll, Richard Marquand, Givi Chokheli, Ken Ogata, Gary Hocking, and Ludvík Daněk. Among people deceased in 2016, Harry Wu ranks 230. Before him are Madeleine Lebeau, Alan Young, Hannes Löhr, Anita Brookner, Michel Delpech, and Leonid Zhabotinsky. After him are Signe Toly Anderson, Nate Thurmond, Giovanni Coppa, Garry Shandling, Jayalalithaa, and Harald Grønningen.

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In China

Among people born in China, Harry Wu ranks 755 out of 1,392. Before him are Tan Dun (1957), Fang Lizhi (1936), Sanmao (1943), Han Zheng (1954), Qian Qichen (1928), and Wang Jianlin (1954). After him are Henry Luce (1898), Gordon Liu (1951), Chen Hongshou (1598), Li Zhaoxing (1940), Wu Ma (1942), and Chen Jingrun (1933).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In China

Among social activists born in China, Harry Wu ranks 8. Before him are Zhang Jue (200), Meng Huo (101), Chen Sheng (-250), Li Hongzhi (1951), Zhang Guotao (1897), and Wei Jingsheng (1950). After him are Chen Qimei (1878), Wang Dan (1969), Wu'erkaixi (1968), Hu Jia (1973), Chen Guangcheng (1971), and Chen Qiushi (1985).

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