1941 - 1995
Kenule Beeson "Ken" Saro-Wiwa (10 October 1941 – 10 November 1995) was a Nigerian writer, television producer, and environmental activist. Saro-Wiwa was a member of the Ogoni people, an ethnic minority in Nigeria whose homeland, Ogoniland, in the Niger Delta, has been targeted for crude oil extraction since the 1950s and has suffered extreme environmental damage from decades of indiscriminate petroleum waste dumping.Initially as a spokesperson, and then as the president, of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), Saro-Wiwa led a nonviolent campaign against environmental degradation of the land and waters of Ogoniland by the operations of the multinational petroleum industry, especially the Royal Dutch Shell company. He criticized the Nigerian government for its reluctance to enforce environmental regulations on the foreign petroleum companies operating in the area.At the peak of his non-violent campaign, he was tried by a special military tribunal for allegedly masterminding the murder of Ogoni chiefs at a pro-government meeting, and hanged in 1995 by the military dictatorship of General Sani Abacha. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ken Saro-Wiwa has received more than 1,100,734 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Ken Saro-Wiwa is the 274th most popular social activist (down from 262nd in 2019), the 13th most popular biography from Nigeria and the most popular Nigerian Social Activist.
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Among social activists, Ken Saro-Wiwa ranks 274 out of 538. Before him are Viktors Arājs, M. N. Roy, Baba Amte, Eunus, Leymah Gbowee, and Joseph von Sonnenfels. After him are Carlo Cafiero, Li Hongzhi, Fra Diavolo, Eglantyne Jebb, Josephine Butler, and Harilal Gandhi.
1910 - 1988
HPI: 53.57
Rank: 268
1887 - 1954
HPI: 53.52
Rank: 269
1914 - 2008
HPI: 53.44
Rank: 270
200 BC - 132 BC
HPI: 53.40
Rank: 271
1972 - Present
HPI: 53.39
Rank: 272
1732 - 1817
HPI: 53.38
Rank: 273
1941 - 1995
HPI: 53.32
Rank: 274
1846 - 1892
HPI: 53.31
Rank: 275
1951 - Present
HPI: 53.29
Rank: 276
1771 - 1806
HPI: 53.28
Rank: 277
1876 - 1928
HPI: 53.28
Rank: 278
1828 - 1906
HPI: 53.24
Rank: 279
1888 - 1948
HPI: 53.19
Rank: 280
Among people born in 1941, Ken Saro-Wiwa ranks 203. Before him are Fritz Wepper, Roberto Calasso, Leon Russom, Eugène Terre'Blanche, George P. Cosmatos, and Wilson Pickett. After him are Ghena Dimitrova, Andrés García, Sonny Landham, Robert Foxworth, Lynne Cheney, and Júlia Várady. Among people deceased in 1995, Ken Saro-Wiwa ranks 109. Before him are Viktoria Brezhneva, Dirceu, Rudolf Peierls, André Frossard, Isang Yun, and Vladimír Dzurilla. After him are Edith Pargeter, Georgy Beregovoy, Srinagarindra, Robert Monroe, Jerry Garcia, and Józef Maria Bocheński.
1941 - Present
HPI: 53.53
Rank: 197
1941 - 2021
HPI: 53.47
Rank: 198
1941 - Present
HPI: 53.46
Rank: 199
1941 - 2010
HPI: 53.38
Rank: 200
1941 - 2005
HPI: 53.34
Rank: 201
1941 - 2006
HPI: 53.32
Rank: 202
1941 - 1995
HPI: 53.32
Rank: 203
1941 - 2005
HPI: 53.28
Rank: 204
1941 - 2023
HPI: 53.13
Rank: 205
1941 - 2017
HPI: 53.04
Rank: 206
1941 - Present
HPI: 53.01
Rank: 207
1941 - Present
HPI: 52.96
Rank: 208
1941 - Present
HPI: 52.88
Rank: 209
1907 - 1995
HPI: 53.69
Rank: 103
1952 - 1995
HPI: 53.48
Rank: 104
1907 - 1995
HPI: 53.38
Rank: 105
1915 - 1995
HPI: 53.38
Rank: 106
1917 - 1995
HPI: 53.35
Rank: 107
1942 - 1995
HPI: 53.35
Rank: 108
1941 - 1995
HPI: 53.32
Rank: 109
1913 - 1995
HPI: 53.31
Rank: 110
1921 - 1995
HPI: 53.17
Rank: 111
1900 - 1995
HPI: 53.11
Rank: 112
1915 - 1995
HPI: 53.11
Rank: 113
1942 - 1995
HPI: 52.78
Rank: 114
1902 - 1995
HPI: 52.66
Rank: 115
Among people born in Nigeria, Ken Saro-Wiwa ranks 13 out of 236. Before him are Sade (1959), Usman dan Fodio (1754), Olaudah Equiano (1745), Hakeem Olajuwon (1963), Olusegun Obasanjo (1937), and Jay-Jay Okocha (1973). After him are Tony Allen (1940), Sani Abacha (1943), Francis Arinze (1932), Umaru Musa Yar'Adua (1951), Goodluck Jonathan (1957), and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (1977).
1959 - Present
HPI: 58.48
Rank: 7
1754 - 1817
HPI: 57.72
Rank: 8
1745 - 1797
HPI: 57.17
Rank: 9
1963 - Present
HPI: 54.96
Rank: 10
1937 - Present
HPI: 54.92
Rank: 11
1973 - Present
HPI: 54.38
Rank: 12
1941 - 1995
HPI: 53.32
Rank: 13
1940 - 2020
HPI: 51.67
Rank: 14
1943 - 1998
HPI: 51.56
Rank: 15
1932 - Present
HPI: 51.43
Rank: 16
1951 - 2010
HPI: 50.95
Rank: 17
1957 - Present
HPI: 50.63
Rank: 18
1977 - Present
HPI: 50.41
Rank: 19
Among social activists born in Nigeria, Ken Saro-Wiwa ranks 1.