SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Margaret Sanger

1879 - 1966

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Margaret Higgins Sanger (born Margaret Louise Higgins; September 14, 1879 – September 6, 1966), also known as Margaret Sanger Slee, was an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse. She popularized the term "birth control", opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, and established organizations that evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Sanger used her writings and speeches primarily to promote her way of thinking. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Margaret Sanger has received more than 7,440,788 page views. Her biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Margaret Sanger is the 205th most popular social activist (down from 149th in 2019), the 1,999th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,488th in 2019) and the 24th most popular American Social Activist.

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  • 57.84

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 50

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.97

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.41

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Margaret Sanger ranks 205 out of 840. Before her are Max Mosley, Jacques Vergès, Serge Klarsfeld, Fred Phelps, Lucio Urtubia, and Tiradentes. After her are Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei, Aliya Moldagulova, Gretl Braun, Khudiram Bose, Abba Kovner, and Sylvia Pankhurst.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Margaret Sanger ranks 59. Before her are Edward Steichen, Kartini, Max Emmerich, Hisaichi Terauchi, Alfred Korzybski, and Nikolai Medtner. After her are Hans Hahn, William Beveridge, Mark Sykes, Vladko Maček, Aleksandar Tsankov, and William Fox. Among people deceased in 1966, Margaret Sanger ranks 58. Before her are Georges Duhamel, Sadao Araki, Demchugdongrub, Wäinö Aaltonen, Bai Chongxi, and Augusta Victoria of Hohenzollern. After her are Hendrik Verwoerd, Yasuji Okamura, Gustavo Marzi, Edward Gordon Craig, Homi J. Bhabha, and Amédée Ozenfant.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Margaret Sanger ranks 1,999 out of 20,380. Before her are Samuel Adams (1722), Hubert Humphrey (1911), Eartha Kitt (1927), Hayden White (1928), William Halsey Jr. (1882), and Abner Doubleday (1819). After her are William H. Seward (1801), James Heckman (1944), Jeff Koons (1955), Rhea Perlman (1948), Archie Hahn (1880), and Alice Walker (1944).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Margaret Sanger ranks 24. Before her are Frederick Douglass (1818), Sojourner Truth (1797), Billy Milligan (1955), Emmett Till (1941), Edward Snowden (1983), and Fred Phelps (1929). After her are Gloria Steinem (1934), W. E. B. Du Bois (1868), David Lane (1938), George Lincoln Rockwell (1918), Russell Means (1939), and Coretta Scott King (1927).

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