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Marcus Garvey

1887 - 1940

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Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. (17 August 1887 – 10 June 1940) was a Jamaican political activist. He was the founder and first President-General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL, commonly known as UNIA), through which he declared himself Provisional President of Africa. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marcus Garvey has received more than 7,207,630 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Marcus Garvey is the 1,391st most popular writer (down from 1,269th in 2019), the 8th most popular biography from Jamaica (down from 6th in 2019) and the most popular Jamaican Writer.

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  • 7.2M

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  • 58.30

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 49

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.82

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.41

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Marcus Garvey ranks 1,391 out of 5,755. Before him are Rafael Alberti, Ihara Saikaku, Hartmann Schedel, Elizabeth of the Trinity, Pehr Henrik Ling, and Hieronymus of Cardia. After him are Lord Alfred Douglas, A. E. van Vogt, Philippe Soupault, Martin Gardner, Colin Dexter, and Matthew Lewis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Marcus Garvey ranks 73. Before him are Savielly Tartakower, Raoul Walsh, Jack Phillips, Hermine Reuss of Greiz, Hugo Steinhaus, and René Spitz. After him are Josef Čapek, Giovanni Gronchi, Vasily Chapayev, Leonard Bloomfield, George, Crown Prince of Serbia, and Sivananda Saraswati. Among people deceased in 1940, Marcus Garvey ranks 41. Before him are Édouard Vuillard, Walter Chrysler, Gunnar Asplund, Michael Hainisch, Saionji Kinmochi, and Nicolae Iorga. After him are Princess Maria of Greece and Denmark, Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev, Fusajiro Yamauchi, Édouard Claparède, Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, and Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark.

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In Jamaica

Among people born in Jamaica, Marcus Garvey ranks 8 out of 168. Before him are Stamford Raffles (1781), Grace Jones (1948), Usain Bolt (1986), Peter Tosh (1944), Stuart Hall (1932), and Jimmy Cliff (1948). After him are Lee "Scratch" Perry (1936), Ben Johnson (1961), Liz Mitchell (1952), Trevor Berbick (1954), Violet Brown (1900), and Patrick Ewing (1962).

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Among WRITERS In Jamaica

Among writers born in Jamaica, Marcus Garvey ranks 1. After him are Mary Seacole (1805), Leonard Howell (1898), Claude McKay (1889), Linton Kwesi Johnson (1952), Marlon James (1970), and Nalo Hopkinson (1960).

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