SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Kailash Satyarthi

1954 - Today

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Kailash Satyarthi (born 11 January 1954) is an Indian social reformer who campaigned against child labor in India and advocated the universal right to education. In 2014, he was the co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, along with Malala Yousafzai, "for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education." He is the founder of multiple social activist organizations, including Bachpan Bachao Andolan, Global March Against Child Labour, Global Campaign for Education, Kailash Satyarthi Children's Foundation, and Bal Ashram Trust. Kailash Satyarthi and his team at Bachpan Bachao Andolan have liberated more than 1,30,000 children in India from child labour, slavery and trafficking. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kailash Satyarthi has received more than 2,978,349 page views. His biography is available in 72 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 70 in 2019). Kailash Satyarthi is the 183rd most popular social activist (up from 193rd in 2019), the 176th most popular biography from India (up from 177th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Indian Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Kailash Satyarthi ranks 183 out of 840. Before him are Grigory Mikhaylovich Semyonov, Emmett Till, Yelena Bonner, Jan Karski, Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen, and Leopold Trepper. After him are Huda Sha'arawi, Edward Snowden, Abbé Pierre, Salvador Puig Antich, Kang Pan-sok, and Manuela Sáenz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Kailash Satyarthi ranks 60. Before him are Lee Child, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, Sezen Aksu, Michael Moore, Yanni, and Catherine O'Hara. After him are Nguyễn Xuân Phúc, Phil Rudd, Riccardo Patrese, François Fillon, Johnny Logan, and Stevie Ray Vaughan.

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In India

Among people born in India, Kailash Satyarthi ranks 176 out of 1,861. Before him are Kittur Chennamma (1778), Lala Lajpat Rai (1865), Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak (1551), Shantideva (685), Abdul Karim (1863), and James Brooke (1803). After him are Khaleda Zia (1945), Mahadevi Varma (1907), Dnyaneshwar (1275), S. R. Ranganathan (1892), Dharmendra (1935), and Guru Arjan (1563).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In India

Among social activists born in India, Kailash Satyarthi ranks 12. Before him are Syed Ahmad Khan (1817), Gangubai Kothewali (1939), Vinoba Bhave (1895), Gopal Krishna Gokhale (1866), Mangal Pandey (1827), and Kittur Chennamma (1778). After him are Khudiram Bose (1889), Anna Hazare (1937), C. Rajagopalachari (1878), Jayaprakash Narayan (1902), Vandana Shiva (1952), and Harilal Gandhi (1888).

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