SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Kayla Mueller

1988 - 2015

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Kayla Jean Mueller (August 14, 1988 – February 6, 2015) was an American human rights activist and humanitarian aid worker from Prescott, Arizona, United States. She was taken captive in August 2013 in Aleppo, Syria, after leaving a Doctors Without Borders hospital. Media reported that a 26-year-old American aid worker was being held by ISIS without naming her, at her family's request. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kayla Mueller has received more than 4,436,369 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Kayla Mueller is the 777th most popular social activist (down from 634th in 2019), the 17,734th most popular biography from United States (down from 16,290th in 2019) and the 136th most popular American Social Activist.

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  • 4.4M

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  • 29.90

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.41

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.06

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Kayla Mueller ranks 777 out of 840Before her are Chen Qiushi, Godeliève Mukasarasi, Hande Kader, Execution of Navid Afkari, Behrouz Boochani, and Ayanda Denge. After her are Gigi Ibrahim, Claire Nouvian, Yelena Grigoryeva, Helena Gualinga, Death of Sahar Khodayari, and Hadizatou Mani.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1988, Kayla Mueller ranks 817Before her are John Peers, Claudio Beauvue, Veli Kavlak, Emilia Fahlin, Jens Keukeleire, and Saladin Said. After her are Buddy Murphy, José Juan Vázquez, Guilherme Milhomem Gusmão, Konstantin Engel, Agnia Ditkovskyte, and Alistair Brownlee. Among people deceased in 2015, Kayla Mueller ranks 581Before her are Suniti Solomon, Richie Benaud, Márton Fülöp, Alfredo Pacheco, Windell Middlebrooks, and Jasodhara Bagchi. After her are Aadesh Shrivastava, Sean Price, Arnold Peralta, Aarthi Agarwal, Murder of Özgecan Aslan, and Clementa C. Pinckney.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Kayla Mueller ranks 17,734 out of 20,380Before her are Kelly Marie Tran (1989), Dennis Scott (1968), Johnny Yong Bosch (1976), Colin Ford (1996), Kehlani (1995), and Maceo Baston (1976). After her are Peter Craig (1969), Orlando Jordan (1974), Daniel Franzese (1978), Mike Rowe (1962), Lou Williams (1986), and Aaron Lewis (1972).

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Kayla Mueller ranks 136Before her are Cindy Sheehan (1957), Medea Benjamin (1952), Alicia Garza (1981), Frances Haugen (1980), Jake Angeli (1988), and Lizzie Velásquez (1989). After her are Gigi Ibrahim (1988), Sam Berns (1996), Amanda Gorman (1998), Barbara Bush (1981), Elizabeth Smart (1987), and Alexandria Villaseñor (2005).