SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Henry Dunant

1828 - 1910

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Henry Dunant (born Jean-Henri Dunant; 8 May 1828 – 30 October 1910), also known as Henri Dunant, was a Swiss humanitarian, businessman, social activist, and co-founder of the Red Cross. His humanitarian efforts won him the first Nobel Peace Prize in 1901. Dunant was born in Geneva to a devout Calvinist family and had business interests in French Algeria and Tunisia. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henry Dunant has received more than 1,182,911 page views. His biography is available in 91 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 88 in 2019). Henry Dunant is the 8th most popular social activist, the 5th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 7th in 2019) and the most popular Swiss Social Activist.

Henry Dunant is most famous for founding the Red Cross.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Henry Dunant ranks 8 out of 840. Before him are Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Malcolm X, Eleanor Roosevelt, Jan Hus, and Rosa Luxemburg. After him are Mother Teresa, Helen Keller, Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Martin Luther King Jr., Jean-Paul Marat, and Claus von Stauffenberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1828, Henry Dunant ranks 3. Before him are Leo Tolstoy, and Jules Verne. After him are Henrik Ibsen, Saigō Takamori, Rani of Jhansi, Hippolyte Taine, Charbel Makhlouf, Randal Cremer, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Nikolay Chernyshevsky, and Ferdinand Cohn. Among people deceased in 1910, Henry Dunant ranks 2. Before him is Leo Tolstoy. After him are Mark Twain, Florence Nightingale, Robert Koch, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, William James, Henri Rousseau, Edward VII, Nadar, Chulalongkorn, and O. Henry.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Henry Dunant ranks 5 out of 1,015. Before him are Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712), Leonhard Euler (1707), Le Corbusier (1887), and Paracelsus (1493). After him are Carl Jung (1875), Jean Piaget (1896), Ferdinand de Saussure (1857), Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746), Sepp Blatter (1936), Huldrych Zwingli (1484), and Jean-Paul Marat (1743).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Switzerland

Among social activists born in Switzerland, Henry Dunant ranks 1. After him are Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746), Jean-Paul Marat (1743), Élie Ducommun (1833), Jean Ziegler (1934), Gustave Moynier (1826), Felix Manz (1498), Hector Hodler (1887), and Bruno Manser (1954).

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