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POLITICIAN

Harvey Milk

1930 - 1978

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Harvey Bernard Milk (May 22, 1930 – November 27, 1978) was an American politician and the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California, as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Milk was born and raised in New York, where he acknowledged his homosexuality as an adolescent, but chose to pursue sexual relationships with secrecy and discretion well into his adult years. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Harvey Milk has received more than 7,003,508 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Harvey Milk is the 3,206th most popular politician (up from 3,513th in 2019), the 1,050th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,160th in 2019) and the 84th most popular American Politician.

Harvey Milk was a gay rights activist and politician who was assassinated in 1978. He is most famous for being the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Harvey Milk ranks 3,206 out of 15,577. Before him are Michelle Obama, Tokugawa Hidetada, James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, Princess Margaretha, Mrs. Ambler, Ivan Ribar, and Alexander II of Macedon. After him are Robert III of Scotland, Infanta Maria Josepha of Portugal, Henriette of France, Gordon Brown, William X, Duke of Aquitaine, and Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Denmark.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Harvey Milk ranks 62. Before him are Gena Rowlands, Jerome Isaac Friedman, Jean Rochefort, George E. Smith, Johan Galtung, and Robert Aumann. After him are Stanley Miller, Joanne Woodward, Jesús Franco, Carlos Hugo, Duke of Parma, Akira Suzuki, and Luce Irigaray. Among people deceased in 1978, Harvey Milk ranks 34. Before him are Norman Rockwell, W. Eugene Smith, Herta Oberheuser, Jomo Kenyatta, Nazli Sabri, and Ed Wood. After him are József Bozsik, Tamara Karsavina, Étienne Gilson, Keith Moon, Charles Boyer, and Ronald George Wreyford Norrish.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Harvey Milk ranks 1,050 out of 18,182. Before him are Gary Sinise (1955), Melvin Schwartz (1932), Anjelica Huston (1951), Elisha Otis (1811), Michelle Obama (1964), and Jerome Karle (1918). After him are Burt Young (1940), Ellen DeGeneres (1958), John Updike (1932), Diane Arbus (1923), Dennis Rodman (1961), and Powers Boothe (1948).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Harvey Milk ranks 84. Before him are Laura Bush (1946), John Sherman (1823), Barbara Bush (1925), Frank B. Kellogg (1856), Rudy Giuliani (1944), and Michelle Obama (1964). After him are Cordell Hull (1871), Mark Felt (1913), Éamon de Valera (1882), Jill Biden (1951), Dred Scott (1795), and Avery Brundage (1887).

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