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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. Sanger 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 7,148,819 page views. Her biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Margaret Sanger is the 149th most popular social activist (up from 194th in 2019), the 1,488th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,214th in 2019) and the 19th most popular American Social Activist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 7.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.50

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 44

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.39

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.54

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Margaret Sanger ranks 149 out of 538. Before her are Steve Biko, Bertha Pappenheim, Huda Sha'arawi, Judas of Galilee, Jacques Roux, and Edward Snowden. After her are Kittur Chennamma, Leopold Trepper, Max Mosley, Emilie Schindler, Beppe Grillo, and Musa al-Sadr.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Margaret Sanger ranks 45. Before her are Léon Jouhaux, Ali of Hejaz, Shunroku Hata, Boris Savinkov, Huda Sha'arawi, and Knud Rasmussen. After her are Wanda Landowska, William Beveridge, Paul Poiret, Max Schreck, Edward Steichen, and Bedřich Hrozný. Among people deceased in 1966, Margaret Sanger ranks 48. Before her are Frank Lentini, Erwin Piscator, Lao She, Jisaburō Ozawa, Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski, and Stanisław Jerzy Lec. After her are Battista Farina, Siegfried Kracauer, Augusta Victoria of Hohenzollern, L. E. J. Brouwer, Edward Gordon Craig, and Evelyn Waugh.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Margaret Sanger ranks 1,488 out of 18,182. Before her are Dean Koontz (1945), Cybill Shepherd (1950), Martin Balsam (1919), Lil Wayne (1982), Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. (1934), and George Takei (1937). After her are Johns Hopkins (1795), Patrick McGoohan (1928), Ma Barker (1873), Charles Chaplin Jr. (1925), Lloyd Bridges (1913), and Alfred G. Gilman (1941).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Margaret Sanger ranks 19. Before her are Jody Williams (1950), George Stinney (1929), John Brown (1800), Frederick Douglass (1818), Betty Ford (1918), and Edward Snowden (1983). After her are Fred Phelps (1929), W. E. B. Du Bois (1868), Gloria Steinem (1934), Sojourner Truth (1797), David Lane (1938), and Billy Milligan (1955).

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