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Jane Addams

1860 - 1935

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Laura Jane Addams (September 6, 1860 – May 21, 1935) was an American settlement activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, public administrator, philosopher, and author. She was a leader in the history of social work and Women's suffrage. In 1889, Addams co-founded Hull House, one of America's most famous settlement houses, in Chicago, Illinois, providing extensive social services to poor, largely immigrant families. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jane Addams has received more than 2,858,753 page views. Her biography is available in 79 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 78 in 2019). Jane Addams is the 16th most popular social activist (up from 64th in 2019), the 115th most popular biography from United States (up from 593rd in 2019) and the 5th most popular American Social Activist.

Jane Addams is most famous for founding the Hull House in Chicago, Illinois. The Hull House was a settlement house that provided services to the immigrant and poor populations of Chicago.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Jane Addams ranks 16 out of 840. Before her are Helen Keller, Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Martin Luther King Jr., Jean-Paul Marat, Claus von Stauffenberg, and Aung San Suu Kyi. After her are Nicholas Winton, Rosa Parks, Gustav I of Sweden, Peter Kropotkin, Robert Owen, and Bertha von Suttner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1860, Jane Addams ranks 5. Before her are Anton Chekhov, Gustav Mahler, Theodor Herzl, and Klara Hitler. After her are Alphonse Mucha, Eduard Buchner, Kanō Jigorō, Raymond Poincaré, Anders Zorn, Willem Einthoven, and William Jennings Bryan. Among people deceased in 1935, Jane Addams ranks 1. After her are Alfred Dreyfus, Kazimir Malevich, T. E. Lawrence, Józef Piłsudski, Fernando Pessoa, Paul Signac, Emmy Noether, Arthur Henderson, Alban Berg, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, and Astrid of Sweden.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jane Addams ranks 115 out of 20,380. Before her are Debbie Reynolds (1932), John Forbes Nash Jr. (1928), Joan Baez (1941), Bhumibol Adulyadej (1927), Jack Nicholson (1937), and Madonna (1958). After her are Isadora Duncan (1877), Tupac Shakur (1971), Noam Chomsky (1928), James Dean (1931), Ted Bundy (1946), and Barack Obama (1961).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Jane Addams ranks 5. Before her are Malcolm X (1925), Eleanor Roosevelt (1884), Helen Keller (1880), and Martin Luther King Jr. (1929). After her are Rosa Parks (1913), Emily Greene Balch (1867), Angela Davis (1944), Jimmy Hoffa (1913), Harriet Tubman (1820), Susan B. Anthony (1820), and Jody Williams (1950).

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