SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Leonard Peltier

1944 - Today

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Leonard Peltier (born September 12, 1944) is a Native American activist and a member of the American Indian Movement (AIM) who was convicted of two counts of first degree murder in the deaths of two Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents in a June 26, 1975, shooting on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. He was sentenced to two consecutive terms of life imprisonment and has been imprisoned since 1976. Peltier became eligible for parole in 1993. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leonard Peltier has received more than 3,232,723 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Leonard Peltier is the 425th most popular social activist (down from 418th in 2019), the 5,353rd most popular biography from United States (up from 6,043rd in 2019) and the 54th most popular American Social Activist.

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  • 26

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  • 2.10

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  • 4.16

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Leonard Peltier ranks 425 out of 840. Before him are Giuseppe Pinelli, Josephine Butler, Eugene V. Debs, Iosif Grigulevich, Saalumarada Thimmakka, and Afeni Shakur. After him are Matilda Joslyn Gage, Rajendra K. Pachauri, Leona Vicario, Malala Yousafzai, Yacouba Sawadogo, and Ōsugi Sakae.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Leonard Peltier ranks 405. Before him are Willeke van Ammelrooy, Abaz Arslanagić, Pedro de Felipe, Peter Lynch, Yoshio Kikugawa, and Sandra Bem. After him are Pat Martino, Francis Lee, Ulli Lommel, Gregory Hoblit, Uschi Glas, and František Pospíšil.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Leonard Peltier ranks 5,353 out of 20,380. Before him are Matt Sorum (1960), Norma Talmadge (1894), Spencer Tunick (1967), Jack Sherman (1956), Sandra Bem (1944), and Randy Orton (1980). After him are John Scofield (1951), Pamela Reed (1949), Hubert Dreyfus (1929), Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826), Jay Garner (1938), and Keenen Ivory Wayans (1958).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Leonard Peltier ranks 54. Before him are Mathew Brady (1822), Louise Bryant (1885), Mary Edwards Walker (1832), Samantha Smith (1972), Eugene V. Debs (1855), and Afeni Shakur (1947). After him are Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826), Lester R. Brown (1934), Anna Louise Strong (1885), Cesar Chavez (1927), Grace Sherwood (1660), and Lee Radziwill (1933).

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