SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Jody Williams

1950 - Today

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Jody Williams (born October 9, 1950) is an American political activist known for her work in banning anti-personnel landmines, her defense of human rights (especially those of women), and her efforts to promote new understandings of security in today's world. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jody Williams has received more than 279,974 page views. Her biography is available in 73 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 68 in 2019). Jody Williams is the 106th most popular social activist (up from 113th in 2019), the 936th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,078th in 2019) and the 12th most popular American Social Activist.

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  • 280k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 63.09

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 73

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 13.58

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.23

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Jody Williams ranks 106 out of 840. Before her are Zhang Jue, Annie Besant, Louise Michel, Leila Khaled, Kasturba Gandhi, and Syed Ahmad Khan. After her are Bugsy Siegel, Ishikawa Goemon, Narges Mohammadi, Nat Turner, Vlado Chernozemski, and René Cassin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Jody Williams ranks 38. Before her are Daniel Auteuil, Choe Ryong-hae, Morgan Fairchild, Grzegorz Lato, Chris Norman, and Jörg Haider. After her are Flavio Briatore, Prokopis Pavlopoulos, Georg Bednorz, Gabriel Byrne, Ma Ying-jeou, and Russell Alan Hulse.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jody Williams ranks 936 out of 20,380. Before her are Barbara Bush (1925), Ben Bernanke (1953), Anne Baxter (1923), Keith Jarrett (1945), Edward Norton (1969), and Dickinson W. Richards (1895). After her are Harry Dean Stanton (1926), Kenneth Arrow (1921), Edgar Cayce (1877), Estée Lauder (1906), Kobe Bryant (1978), and Leon M. Lederman (1922).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Jody Williams ranks 12. Before her are Rosa Parks (1913), Emily Greene Balch (1867), Angela Davis (1944), Jimmy Hoffa (1913), Harriet Tubman (1820), and Susan B. Anthony (1820). After her are Bugsy Siegel (1906), Nat Turner (1800), Betty Ford (1918), George Stinney (1929), John Brown (1800), and Frederick Douglass (1818).

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