SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Malala Yousafzai

1997 - Today

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Malala Yousafzai (Urdu: ملالہ یوسفزئی, Pashto: ملاله یوسفزۍ, pronunciation: [məˈlaːlə jusəf ˈzəj]; born 12 July 1997) is a Pakistani female education activist, film and television producer, and the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize laureate at the age of 17. She is the youngest Nobel Prize laureate in history, the second Pakistani and the only Pashtun to receive a Nobel Prize. Yousafzai is a human rights advocate for the education of women and children in her native homeland, Swat, where the Pakistani Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Malala Yousafzai has received more than 22,724,657 page views. Her biography is available in 122 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 114 in 2019). Malala Yousafzai is the 429th most popular social activist (down from 362nd in 2019), the 65th most popular biography from Pakistan (down from 54th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Pakistani Social Activist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 23M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.94

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 122

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.80

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 7.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Malala Yousafzai ranks 429 out of 840. Before her are Saalumarada Thimmakka, Afeni Shakur, Leonard Peltier, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Rajendra K. Pachauri, and Leona Vicario. After her are Yacouba Sawadogo, Ōsugi Sakae, İbrahim Kaypakkaya, Surya Sen, Lester R. Brown, and Anna Louise Strong.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1997, Malala Yousafzai ranks 16. Before her are Charles Leclerc, Theo Hernandez, Lautaro Martínez, Jake Paul, Cha Eun-woo, and Frenkie de Jong. After her are Alexander Zverev, Federico Chiesa, Chloë Grace Moretz, Renato Sanches, Marcus Thuram, and Malcom.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Malala Yousafzai ranks 65 out of 217. Before her are Faiz Ahmad Faiz (1911), Farooq Leghari (1940), Manoj Kumar (1937), Aafia Siddiqui (1972), Gulzar (1934), and Duleep Singh (1838). After her are Yash Chopra (1932), Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry (1904), Prithviraj Kapoor (1906), Zafarullah Khan Jamali (1944), Vinod Khanna (1946), and Shahid Khan (1950).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Pakistan

Among social activists born in Pakistan, Malala Yousafzai ranks 4. Before her are Bhagat Singh (1907), Guru Ram Das (1534), and Bacha Khan (1890). After her are Asma Jahangir (1952), Iqbal Masih (1983), Mukhtar Mai (1972), and Jalila Haider (1988).

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