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Juliette Gordon Low

1860 - 1927

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Juliette Gordon Low (née Gordon; October 31, 1860 – January 17, 1927) was the American founder of Girl Scouts of the USA. Inspired by the work of Robert Baden-Powell, founder of Scout Movement, she joined the Girl Guide movement in England, forming her own group of Girl Guides there in 1911. In 1912, she returned to the United States, and the same year established the first Girl Guide troop in the country in Savannah, Georgia. In 1915, the United States' Girl Guides became known as the Girl Scouts, and Juliette Gordon Low was the first leader. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Juliette Gordon Low has received more than 774,053 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Juliette Gordon Low is the 683rd most popular social activist (down from 584th in 2019), the 13,500th most popular biography from United States (down from 13,131st in 2019) and the 114th most popular American Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Juliette Gordon Low ranks 683 out of 840. Before her are Ruthie Tompson, Beyers Naudé, Azimzhan Askarov, Emily Murphy, Anna Howard Shaw, and Lillian Ngoyi. After her are Norma Cruz, Sumaira Abdulali, Aruna Shanbaug case, Karina Pankievich, Yoani Sánchez, and Sheila Watt-Cloutier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1860, Juliette Gordon Low ranks 145. Before her are Leonard Wood, Ekaterina Karavelova, James Neill, Gregorio Aglipay, Charles Oman, and Lillian Russell. After her is John W. Weeks. Among people deceased in 1927, Juliette Gordon Low ranks 154. Before her are William Healey Dall, Carl H. Eigenmann, Sarah Frances Whiting, Charles Sprague Sargent, Harry Johnston, and Sybil Bauer. After her is B. B. Comer.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Juliette Gordon Low ranks 13,500 out of 20,380. Before her are Kate Upton (1992), Jackie Mason (1928), Erik Palladino (1968), Nadine Velazquez (1978), Troy Garity (1973), and Larry Nance (1959). After her are Albert Gore Sr. (1907), Alice Stone Blackwell (1857), Charles Vinci (1933), Jason Gould (1966), Thomas A. Shannon Jr. (1958), and Kevin Johnson (1966).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Juliette Gordon Low ranks 114. Before her are Derek Chauvin (1976), Fannie Lou Hamer (1917), Frank Kameny (1925), Tarana Burke (1973), Gloria Allred (1941), and Ruthie Tompson (1910). After her are Wendell Phillips (1811), Walter Reuther (1907), Pauli Murray (1910), Edith Windsor (1929), Dick Gregory (1932), and Grace Abbott (1878).

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