SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Liu Xiaobo

1955 - 2017

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Liu Xiaobo (Chinese: 刘晓波; pinyin: Liú Xiǎobō; 28 December 1955 – 13 July 2017) was a Chinese literary critic, human rights activist, philosopher and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who called for political reforms and was involved in campaigns to end Chinese Communist Party one-party rule in China. He was arrested numerous times, and was described as China's most prominent dissident and the country's most famous political prisoner. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Liu Xiaobo has received more than 2,136,991 page views. His biography is available in 104 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 99 in 2019). Liu Xiaobo is the 95th most popular social activist (down from 82nd in 2019), the 205th most popular biography from China (down from 182nd in 2019) and the most popular Chinese Social Activist.

Liu Xiaobo was a Chinese dissident, human rights activist, and literary critic. He was sentenced to 11 years in prison for "inciting subversion of state power" in 2009. He became the first Nobel Peace Prize laureate to be imprisoned in China.

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  • 2.1M

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  • 63.81

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 104

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.73

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.22

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Liu Xiaobo ranks 95 out of 840. Before him are Toussaint Louverture, Marinus van der Lubbe, Thomas Cranmer, Jimmy Hoffa, Vasil Levski, and Kim Hyong-jik. After him are Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad, Anneliese Michel, Harriet Tubman, Susan B. Anthony, Zhang Jue, and Annie Besant.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Liu Xiaobo ranks 37. Before him are Chow Yun-fat, Marcelo Bielsa, Donatella Versace, Najib Mikati, Svante Pääbo, and Kris Jenner. After him are Mark David Chapman, Mariano Rajoy, Lazarus Chakwera, Billy Bob Thornton, Shoko Asahara, and Martin Schulz. Among people deceased in 2017, Liu Xiaobo ranks 41. Before him are Tzvetan Todorov, Louise Hay, Emmanuelle Riva, Lotfi A. Zadeh, Jean Rochefort, and Adnan Khashoggi. After him are Malcolm Young, Powers Boothe, George A. Romero, Ryke Geerd Hamer, Harry Dean Stanton, and Kenneth Arrow.

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In China

Among people born in China, Liu Xiaobo ranks 205 out of 1,610. Before him are Emperor Zhao of Han (-94), Lin Zexu (1785), Wong Fei-hung (1925), Meng Tian (-250), Zhang Zuolin (1875), and Cao Xueqin (1724). After him are Wang Anshi (1021), Zhang Liang (-290), Wang Yangming (1472), Xu Fu (-255), Donnie Yen (1963), and Emperor Yingzong of Song (1032).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In China

Among social activists born in China, Liu Xiaobo ranks 1. After him are Zhang Jue (200), Meng Huo (101), Chen Sheng (-250), Li Hongzhi (1951), Zhang Guotao (1897), Harry Wu (1937), Wei Jingsheng (1950), Chen Qimei (1878), Wu'erkaixi (1968), Wang Dan (1969), and Hu Jia (1973).

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