SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Lê Đức Thọ

1911 - 1990

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Lê Đức Thọ (Vietnamese: [lē ɗɨ̌k tʰɔ̂ˀ] ; 14 October 1911 – 13 October 1990), born Phan Đình Khải in Nam Dinh Province, was a Vietnamese revolutionary general, diplomat, and politician. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lê Đức Thọ has received more than 852,375 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Lê Đức Thọ is the 48th most popular social activist (up from 63rd in 2019), the 6th most popular biography from Vietnam (up from 9th in 2019) and the most popular Vietnamese Social Activist.

Lê đức thọ is most famous for being the first Vietnamese person to win a Nobel Prize. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his discovery of the parasite that causes leprosy.

Memorability Metrics

  • 850k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 72.35

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 55

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.77

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.51

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Lê Đức Thọ ranks 48 out of 840. Before him are Martin Niemöller, Angela Davis, Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī, Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Pheidippides, and Emma Goldman. After him are Yemelyan Pugachev, Alexey Stakhanov, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Carl von Ossietzky, Izz ad-Din al-Qassam, and Bal Gangadhar Tilak.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Lê Đức Thọ ranks 19. Before him are Nino Rota, Czesław Miłosz, Mikhail Botvinnik, Marshall McLuhan, Jack Ruby, and Melvin Calvin. After him are Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, Robert Johnson, Tennessee Williams, Klaus Fuchs, Maurice Allais, and Wilhelm Mohnke. Among people deceased in 1990, Lê Đức Thọ ranks 14. Before him are Ava Gardner, B. F. Skinner, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Paulette Goddard, Sarah Vaughan, and Norbert Elias. After him are Sergei Parajanov, Pavel Cherenkov, Yun Posun, Miguel Muñoz, John Bowlby, and Tunku Abdul Rahman.

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In Vietnam

Among people born in Vietnam, Lê Đức Thọ ranks 6 out of 136. Before him are Ho Chi Minh (1890), Ngo Dinh Diem (1901), Võ Nguyên Giáp (1911), Marguerite Duras (1914), and Amanda Lear (1939). After him are Thích Nhất Hạnh (1926), Thích Quảng Đức (1897), Nguyễn Phú Trọng (1944), Bảo Đại (1913), Ieng Sary (1925), and Lady Sun (192).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Vietnam

Among social activists born in Vietnam, Lê Đức Thọ ranks 1. After him are Thích Quảng Đức (1897), and Peter Nguyen Van Hung (1958).

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