SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Marsha P. Johnson

1945 - 1992

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Marsha P. Johnson (August 24, 1945 – July 6, 1992) was an American gay liberation activist and self-identified drag queen. Known as an outspoken advocate for gay rights, Johnson was one of the prominent figures in the Stonewall uprising of 1969. Johnson was a founding member of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) and co-founded the radical activist group Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR), alongside close friend Sylvia Rivera. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marsha P. Johnson has received more than 5,438,181 page views. Her biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Marsha P. Johnson is the 378th most popular social activist (down from 249th in 2019), the 4,571st most popular biography from United States (down from 2,884th in 2019) and the 41st most popular American Social Activist.

Marsha P. Johnson was a transgender woman and LGBTQ activist who is most famous for being one of the first people to throw a brick at a police car during the Stonewall Riots in 1969.

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  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.89

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Marsha P. Johnson ranks 378 out of 840. Before her are Lucretia Mott, Gulnara Karimova, Katarina Taikon, Maria Nikiforova, Sergei Petrovich Trubetskoy, and Tatyana Baramzina. After her are Marie Popelin, Germaine Tillion, Pingali Venkayya, Anita Augspurg, Otto Warmbier, and Ivan Bolotnikov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Marsha P. Johnson ranks 300. Before her are José Manuel Fuente, David Chase, John Doman, Burning Spear, Sadok Sassi, and Tony Roche. After her are Abdolkarim Soroush, Salvador Valdés Mesa, Ana Martín, Katja Ebstein, Gérard Lenorman, and Yuri Antonov. Among people deceased in 1992, Marsha P. Johnson ranks 136. Before her are Sándor Veress, Lenny Montana, Machiko Hasegawa, Wilfried Dietrich, Karl Deutsch, and Chris McCandless. After her are Jack Arnold, Harald Sæverud, Sylvain Arend, Piotr Jaroszewicz, Arthur Cronquist, and Richard Yates.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Marsha P. Johnson ranks 4,571 out of 20,380. Before her are Bo Hopkins (1942), Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829), Frank Frazetta (1928), Joss Whedon (1964), Steven Hill (1922), and Lauren Cohan (1982). After her are Brooke Adams (1949), Thom Barry (1950), Steve James (1952), Michael G. Wilson (1942), Paul Adelstein (1969), and John Carroll Lynch (1963).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Marsha P. Johnson ranks 41. Before her are Susannah Mushatt Jones (1899), Sumner Paine (1868), Dorothy Day (1897), Black Elk (1863), Clara Barton (1821), and Lucretia Mott (1793). After her are Otto Warmbier (1994), Claudette Colvin (1939), Alice Paul (1885), Huey P. Newton (1942), Bayard Rustin (1912), and Catharine MacKinnon (1946).

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