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SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Ingrid Newkirk

1949 - Today

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Ingrid Elizabeth Newkirk (née Ward; born June 11, 1949) is a British-American animal activist, author and the president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), the world's largest animal rights organization. Newkirk founded PETA in March 1980 with fellow animal rights activist Alex Pacheco. They came to public attention in 1981, during what became known as the Silver Spring monkeys case, when Pacheco photographed 17 macaque monkeys being experimented on inside the Institute of Behavioral Research in Silver Spring, Maryland. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ingrid Newkirk has received more than 708,433 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Ingrid Newkirk is the 536th most popular social activist (down from 455th in 2019), the 5,043rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,633rd in 2019) and the 39th most popular British Social Activist.

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  • 710k

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  • 40.38

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  • 17

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  • 2.34

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  • 3.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Ingrid Newkirk ranks 536 out of 538Before her are Jared Taylor, Albertina Sisulu, Roger Stone, Chen Guangcheng, William Smith O'Brien, and Oinikhol Bobonazarova. After her are Frank Kameny, Jan Egeland, Salih Mahmoud Osman, Luis Taruc, Rachel Corrie, and Eren Keskin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Ingrid Newkirk ranks 599Before her are Paul Manafort, Wenceslao Padilla, Brian Kidd, Peter Kern, Simon Kirke, and Scott Asheton. After her are Walter Corbo, Dave Greenfield, Viktor Kupreichik, Anna-Maria Müller, Tom Watson, and Daniel DiNardo.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Ingrid Newkirk ranks 5,043 out of 7,765Before her are Brian Murphy (1932), John Speed (1551), Compton Mackenzie (1883), Rupert Sanders (1971), Jan Morris (1926), and Frederic Moore (1830). After her are Gracie Fields (1898), Peter Lord (1953), Tara Fitzgerald (1967), Charlie Buchan (1891), Ivor Montagu (1904), and Dave Greenfield (1949).

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United Kingdom

Among social activists born in United Kingdom, Ingrid Newkirk ranks 39Before her are Hereward the Wake (1035), Emily Hobhouse (1860), Thomas Clarkson (1760), James Larkin (1876), Emily Davies (1830), and Harry Hay (1912). After her are Samuel Gompers (1850), Arthur Scargill (1938), Charlotte Despard (1844), Anna Howard Shaw (1847), Anthony Dod Mantle (1955), and Anjem Choudary (1967).