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Martin Luther King Jr.

1929 - 1968

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Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Christian minister, activist, and political philosopher who was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. A black church leader and a son of early civil rights activist and minister Martin Luther King Sr., King advanced civil rights for people of color in the United States through the use of nonviolent resistance and nonviolent civil disobedience against Jim Crow laws and other forms of legalized discrimination. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Martin Luther King Jr. has received more than 45,610,593 page views. His biography is available in 170 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 157 in 2019). Martin Luther King Jr. is the 12th most popular social activist (down from 10th in 2019), the 85th most popular biography from United States (down from 58th in 2019) and the 4th most popular American Social Activist.

Martin Luther King Jr. is most famous for his role in the civil rights movement, which he lead to fight for equal rights for African Americans.

Memorability Metrics

  • 46M

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  • 76.60

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 170

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.10

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 9.28

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Martin Luther King Jr.s by language

Over the past year Martin Luther King Jr. has had the most page views in the with 5,564,423 views, followed by Spanish (999,306), and French (678,475). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Turkish (3,442.02%), Kurdish (Sorani) (555.16%), and (529.85%)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Martin Luther King Jr. ranks 12 out of 840. Before him are Jan Hus, Rosa Luxemburg, Henry Dunant, Mother Teresa, Helen Keller, and Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi. After him are Jean-Paul Marat, Claus von Stauffenberg, Aung San Suu Kyi, Jane Addams, Nicholas Winton, and Rosa Parks.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Martin Luther King Jr. ranks 8. Before him are Grace Kelly, Anne Frank, Audrey Hepburn, Lev Yashin, Milan Kundera, and Bud Spencer. After him are Jürgen Habermas, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Sergio Leone, Hassan II of Morocco, Imre Kertész, and Irene Papas. Among people deceased in 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. ranks 4. Before him are Yuri Gagarin, Helen Keller, and Marcel Duchamp. After him are Lise Meitner, Otto Hahn, Padre Pio, John Steinbeck, Lev Landau, Konstantin Rokossovsky, Robert F. Kennedy, and Trygve Lie.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Martin Luther King Jr. ranks 85 out of 20,380. Before him are Abraham Maslow (1908), Robin Williams (1951), Stephen King (1947), Morgan Freeman (1937), Larry Ellison (1944), and John D. Rockefeller (1839). After him are Caitlyn Jenner (1949), Charles Manson (1934), Grace Hopper (1906), Tina Turner (1939), Louis Armstrong (1901), and Samuel Morse (1791).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Martin Luther King Jr. ranks 4. Before him are Malcolm X (1925), Eleanor Roosevelt (1884), and Helen Keller (1880). After him are Jane Addams (1860), Rosa Parks (1913), Emily Greene Balch (1867), Angela Davis (1944), Jimmy Hoffa (1913), Harriet Tubman (1820), Susan B. Anthony (1820), and Jody Williams (1950).

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