1880 - 1968
Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer. Born in West Tuscumbia, Alabama, she lost her sight and her hearing after a bout of illness at the age of 19 months. She then communicated primarily using home signs until the age of seven, when she met her first teacher and life-long companion Anne Sullivan. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Helen Keller has received more than 18,399,535 page views. Her biography is available in 102 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 100 in 2019). Helen Keller is the 11th most popular social activist (down from 10th in 2019), the 72nd most popular biography from United States (down from 63rd in 2019) and the 4th most popular American Social Activist.
Helen Keller is most famous for being the first deaf-blind person to graduate from college. She was also a prolific author and activist.
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Among social activists, Helen Keller ranks 11 out of 544. Before her are Rosa Luxemburg, Jan Hus, Mother Teresa, Eleanor Roosevelt, Henry Dunant, and Martin Luther King Jr.. After her are Guy Fawkes, Jean-Paul Marat, Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Rosa Parks, Claus von Stauffenberg, and Irena Sendler.
1871 - 1919
HPI: 86.39
Rank: 5
1369 - 1415
HPI: 85.94
Rank: 6
1910 - 1997
HPI: 85.68
Rank: 7
1884 - 1962
HPI: 85.50
Rank: 8
1828 - 1910
HPI: 84.61
Rank: 9
1929 - 1968
HPI: 84.34
Rank: 10
1880 - 1968
HPI: 82.77
Rank: 11
1570 - 1606
HPI: 82.39
Rank: 12
1743 - 1793
HPI: 82.00
Rank: 13
1746 - 1827
HPI: 81.80
Rank: 14
1913 - 2005
HPI: 81.77
Rank: 15
1907 - 1944
HPI: 81.27
Rank: 16
1910 - 2008
HPI: 80.97
Rank: 17
Among people born in 1880, Helen Keller ranks 1. After her are Guillaume Apollinaire, Douglas MacArthur, Alfred Wegener, Fedor von Bock, Oswald Spengler, Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, Robert Musil, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, George Marshall, Franz Marc, and Ludwig Beck. Among people deceased in 1968, Helen Keller ranks 4. Before her are Yuri Gagarin, Martin Luther King Jr., and Marcel Duchamp. After her are John Steinbeck, Padre Pio, Lise Meitner, Robert F. Kennedy, Otto Hahn, Trygve Lie, Konstantin Rokossovsky, and Lev Landau.
1880 - 1968
HPI: 82.77
Rank: 1
1880 - 1918
HPI: 80.91
Rank: 2
1880 - 1964
HPI: 80.90
Rank: 3
1880 - 1930
HPI: 80.64
Rank: 4
1880 - 1945
HPI: 78.85
Rank: 5
1880 - 1936
HPI: 78.78
Rank: 6
1880 - 1962
HPI: 78.59
Rank: 7
1880 - 1942
HPI: 78.30
Rank: 8
1880 - 1938
HPI: 78.22
Rank: 9
1880 - 1959
HPI: 78.13
Rank: 10
1880 - 1916
HPI: 77.45
Rank: 11
1880 - 1944
HPI: 76.29
Rank: 12
1934 - 1968
HPI: 88.58
Rank: 1
1929 - 1968
HPI: 84.34
Rank: 2
1887 - 1968
HPI: 83.03
Rank: 3
1880 - 1968
HPI: 82.77
Rank: 4
1902 - 1968
HPI: 80.60
Rank: 5
1887 - 1968
HPI: 79.99
Rank: 6
1878 - 1968
HPI: 79.30
Rank: 7
1925 - 1968
HPI: 78.74
Rank: 8
1879 - 1968
HPI: 78.68
Rank: 9
1896 - 1968
HPI: 77.48
Rank: 10
1896 - 1968
HPI: 77.13
Rank: 11
1908 - 1968
HPI: 76.65
Rank: 12
Among people born in United States, Helen Keller ranks 72 out of 15,968. Before her are Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890), Al Gore (1948), Toni Morrison (1931), Noam Chomsky (1928), George H. W. Bush (1924), and Danny DeVito (1944). After her are Woody Allen (1935), Robin Williams (1951), Stephen King (1947), John Dewey (1859), Joe Biden (1942), and Dustin Hoffman (1937).
1890 - 1969
HPI: 83.26
Rank: 66
1948 - Present
HPI: 83.21
Rank: 67
1931 - 2019
HPI: 83.05
Rank: 68
1928 - Present
HPI: 83.01
Rank: 69
1924 - 2018
HPI: 82.99
Rank: 70
1944 - Present
HPI: 82.87
Rank: 71
1880 - 1968
HPI: 82.77
Rank: 72
1935 - Present
HPI: 82.76
Rank: 73
1951 - 2014
HPI: 82.71
Rank: 74
1947 - Present
HPI: 82.70
Rank: 75
1859 - 1952
HPI: 82.66
Rank: 76
1942 - Present
HPI: 82.42
Rank: 77
1937 - Present
HPI: 82.37
Rank: 78
Among social activists born in United States, Helen Keller ranks 4. Before her are Malcolm X (1925), Eleanor Roosevelt (1884), and Martin Luther King Jr. (1929). After her are Rosa Parks (1913), Jimmy Hoffa (1913), Emily Greene Balch (1867), Jane Addams (1860), Susan B. Anthony (1820), Angela Davis (1944), Bugsy Siegel (1906), and John Brown (1800).
1925 - 1965
HPI: 88.13
Rank: 1
1884 - 1962
HPI: 85.50
Rank: 2
1929 - 1968
HPI: 84.34
Rank: 3
1880 - 1968
HPI: 82.77
Rank: 4
1913 - 2005
HPI: 81.77
Rank: 5
1913 - 1975
HPI: 75.79
Rank: 6
1867 - 1961
HPI: 74.11
Rank: 7
1860 - 1935
HPI: 71.68
Rank: 8
1820 - 1906
HPI: 71.60
Rank: 9
1944 - Present
HPI: 71.43
Rank: 10
1906 - 1947
HPI: 70.86
Rank: 11
1800 - 1859
HPI: 69.27
Rank: 12