SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Joe Hill

1879 - 1915

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Joe Hill (October 7, 1879 – November 19, 1915), born Joel Emmanuel Hägglund and also known as Joseph Hillström, was a Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW, familiarly called the "Wobblies"). A native Swedish speaker, he learned English during the early 1900s, while working various jobs from New York to San Francisco. Hill, an immigrant worker frequently facing unemployment and underemployment, became a popular songwriter and cartoonist for the union. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joe Hill has received more than 1,017,970 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Joe Hill is the 330th most popular social activist (down from 262nd in 2019), the 417th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 336th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Swedish Social Activist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.95

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.06

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.72

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Joe Hill ranks 330 out of 840. Before him are Joseph von Sonnenfels, Wessel Freytag von Loringhoven, Naziha al-Dulaimi, Viola Desmond, Ricardo Flores Magón, and Edna Parker. After him are Dhondo Keshav Karve, Lampião, Mohamed Bouazizi, Sultan al-Atrash, Vladimir Burtsev, and Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Joe Hill ranks 107. Before him are José Giral, Mostafa El-Nahas, Angelina Beloff, E. H. Shepard, Duchess Sophia Charlotte of Oldenburg, and Petar Živković. After him are Frank Bridge, Pedro Aguirre Cerda, Gorazd, Vittorio Ambrosio, Shinobu Ishihara, and Alan Gardiner. Among people deceased in 1915, Joe Hill ranks 61. Before him are Gabriel von Max, Hendrik Willem Mesdag, Theodor Boveri, Inoue Kaoru, Hugo Schiff, and Daniel Varoujan. After him are Adolphe Pégoud, Arthur Hughes, Eugène Jansson, Serafino Vannutelli, Ruben Sevak, and Emil Rathenau.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Joe Hill ranks 417 out of 1,879. Before him are Sven Tumba (1931), Ralf Edström (1952), Klas Lestander (1931), Johan Tobias Sergel (1740), Esaias Tegnér (1782), and Pehr Kalm (1716). After him are Lars Norén (1944), Åsa Larsson (1966), Princess Sophia of Sweden (1547), Stefan Johansson (1956), Ernst Trygger (1857), and Carl Alexander Clerck (1710).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Sweden

Among social activists born in Sweden, Joe Hill ranks 4. Before him are Gustav I of Sweden (1496), Axel Munthe (1857), and Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson (1390). After him are Greta Thunberg (2003), Sophie Adlersparre (1823), Katarina Taikon (1932), Gertrud Adelborg (1853), Ivan Betskoy (1704), and Isabelle Axelsson (2001).

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