SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Mairead Maguire

1944 - Today

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Mairead Maguire (born 27 January 1944), also known as Mairead Corrigan Maguire and formerly as Mairéad Corrigan, is a peace activist from Northern Ireland. She co-founded, with Betty Williams and Ciaran McKeown, the Women for Peace, which later became the Community for Peace People, an organization dedicated to encouraging a peaceful resolution of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mairead Maguire has received more than 332,564 page views. Her biography is available in 69 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 67 in 2019). Mairead Maguire is the 135th most popular social activist (up from 138th in 2019), the 829th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 892nd in 2019) and the 9th most popular British Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Mairead Maguire ranks 135 out of 840Before her are George Stinney, Steve Biko, Musa al-Sadr, Vesna Vulović, Pier Gerlofs Donia, and Abimael Guzmán. After her are Gangubai Kothewali, Hilda Gadea, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Alfred Naujocks, Emily Davison, and Vinoba Bhave.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Mairead Maguire ranks 92Before her are Bernard Hill, Ian McDiarmid, Donna Haraway, Erwin Neher, Karin Schubert, and Rolf M. Zinkernagel. After her are Bernard Cornwell, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Nana Akufo-Addo, Killing of Peter Fechter, Mordechai Spiegler, and Keith Emerson.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Mairead Maguire ranks 829 out of 8,785Before her are E. M. Forster (1879), William Carey (1761), Edward Whymper (1840), Peter Cushing (1913), H. L. A. Hart (1907), and Derek Jacobi (1938). After her are Godfrey Hounsfield (1919), Cliff Williams (1949), Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis (1891), David Coverdale (1951), Lady Mary Victoria Douglas-Hamilton (1850), and Æthelbald, King of Wessex (831).

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United Kingdom

Among social activists born in United Kingdom, Mairead Maguire ranks 9Before her are Guy Fawkes (1570), Lady Godiva (990), Emmeline Pankhurst (1858), Betty Williams (1943), Thomas Cranmer (1489), and Annie Besant (1847). After her are Emily Davison (1872), Max Mosley (1940), Sylvia Pankhurst (1882), Kate Sheppard (1848), Eglantyne Jebb (1876), and Cassivellaunus (-100).