1925 - 1965
Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little; May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965) was an African American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement. He is best known for his time spent as a vocal spokesman for the Nation of Islam. Malcolm spent his adolescence living in a series of foster homes or with relatives after his father's death and his mother's hospitalization. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Malcolm X has received more than 22,432,216 page views. His biography is available in 91 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 88 in 2019). Malcolm X is the 4th most popular social activist, the 12th most popular biography from United States (up from 17th in 2019) and the most popular American Social Activist.
Malcolm X is most famous for being a prominent African-American civil rights activist and minister of the Nation of Islam. He was assassinated in 1965 at the age of 39.
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Among social activists, Malcolm X ranks 4 out of 544. Before him are Che Guevara, Nelson Mandela, and Mahatma Gandhi. After him are Rosa Luxemburg, Jan Hus, Mother Teresa, Eleanor Roosevelt, Henry Dunant, Martin Luther King Jr., Helen Keller, and Guy Fawkes.
1928 - 1967
HPI: 93.41
Rank: 1
1918 - 2013
HPI: 91.88
Rank: 2
1869 - 1948
HPI: 91.71
Rank: 3
1925 - 1965
HPI: 88.13
Rank: 4
1871 - 1919
HPI: 86.39
Rank: 5
1369 - 1415
HPI: 85.94
Rank: 6
1910 - 1997
HPI: 85.68
Rank: 7
1884 - 1962
HPI: 85.50
Rank: 8
1828 - 1910
HPI: 84.61
Rank: 9
1929 - 1968
HPI: 84.34
Rank: 10
1880 - 1968
HPI: 82.77
Rank: 11
1570 - 1606
HPI: 82.39
Rank: 12
Among people born in 1925, Malcolm X ranks 1. After him are Margaret Thatcher, Pol Pot, Richard Burton, Gilles Deleuze, Yukio Mishima, Paul Newman, Patrice Lumumba, Albert Bandura, Robert F. Kennedy, Zygmunt Bauman, and Alija Izetbegović. Among people deceased in 1965, Malcolm X ranks 2. Before him is Winston Churchill. After him are Le Corbusier, Albert Schweitzer, Syngman Rhee, Martin Buber, W. Somerset Maugham, Stan Laurel, Farouk of Egypt, Eli Cohen, T. S. Eliot, and Nat King Cole.
1925 - 1965
HPI: 88.13
Rank: 1
1925 - 2013
HPI: 86.06
Rank: 2
1925 - 1998
HPI: 83.79
Rank: 3
1925 - 1984
HPI: 83.54
Rank: 4
1925 - 1995
HPI: 79.66
Rank: 5
1925 - 1970
HPI: 79.52
Rank: 6
1925 - 2008
HPI: 79.49
Rank: 7
1925 - 1961
HPI: 79.36
Rank: 8
1925 - Present
HPI: 78.86
Rank: 9
1925 - 1968
HPI: 78.74
Rank: 10
1925 - 2017
HPI: 78.72
Rank: 11
1925 - 2003
HPI: 78.64
Rank: 12
1874 - 1965
HPI: 89.73
Rank: 1
1925 - 1965
HPI: 88.13
Rank: 2
1887 - 1965
HPI: 87.33
Rank: 3
1875 - 1965
HPI: 82.32
Rank: 4
1875 - 1965
HPI: 80.47
Rank: 5
1878 - 1965
HPI: 78.74
Rank: 6
1874 - 1965
HPI: 78.21
Rank: 7
1890 - 1965
HPI: 77.43
Rank: 8
1920 - 1965
HPI: 77.11
Rank: 9
1924 - 1965
HPI: 76.02
Rank: 10
1888 - 1965
HPI: 74.70
Rank: 11
1919 - 1965
HPI: 74.55
Rank: 12
Among people born in United States, Malcolm X ranks 12 out of 15,968. Before him are Edgar Allan Poe (1809), Ulysses S. Grant (1822), Abraham Lincoln (1809), Marilyn Monroe (1926), Sylvester Stallone (1946), and Steve Jobs (1955). After him are Elvis Presley (1935), Martin Van Buren (1782), John F. Kennedy (1917), Hillary Clinton (1947), Neil Armstrong (1930), and Steven Spielberg (1946).
1809 - 1849
HPI: 89.63
Rank: 6
1822 - 1885
HPI: 89.27
Rank: 7
1809 - 1865
HPI: 89.14
Rank: 8
1926 - 1962
HPI: 89.12
Rank: 9
1946 - Present
HPI: 88.47
Rank: 10
1955 - 2011
HPI: 88.27
Rank: 11
1925 - 1965
HPI: 88.13
Rank: 12
1935 - 1977
HPI: 88.09
Rank: 13
1782 - 1862
HPI: 87.89
Rank: 14
1917 - 1963
HPI: 87.77
Rank: 15
1947 - Present
HPI: 87.74
Rank: 16
1930 - 2012
HPI: 87.58
Rank: 17
1946 - Present
HPI: 87.57
Rank: 18
Among social activists born in United States, Malcolm X ranks 1. After him are Eleanor Roosevelt (1884), Martin Luther King Jr. (1929), Helen Keller (1880), Rosa Parks (1913), Jimmy Hoffa (1913), Emily Greene Balch (1867), Jane Addams (1860), Susan B. Anthony (1820), Angela Davis (1944), Bugsy Siegel (1906), and John Brown (1800).
1925 - 1965
HPI: 88.13
Rank: 1
1884 - 1962
HPI: 85.50
Rank: 2
1929 - 1968
HPI: 84.34
Rank: 3
1880 - 1968
HPI: 82.77
Rank: 4
1913 - 2005
HPI: 81.77
Rank: 5
1913 - 1975
HPI: 75.79
Rank: 6
1867 - 1961
HPI: 74.11
Rank: 7
1860 - 1935
HPI: 71.68
Rank: 8
1820 - 1906
HPI: 71.60
Rank: 9
1944 - Present
HPI: 71.43
Rank: 10
1906 - 1947
HPI: 70.86
Rank: 11
1800 - 1859
HPI: 69.27
Rank: 12