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Mary Daly

1928 - 2010

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Mary Daly (October 16, 1928 – January 3, 2010) was an American radical feminist philosopher and theologian. Daly, who described herself as a "radical lesbian feminist", taught at the Jesuit-run Boston College for 33 years. Once a practicing Roman Catholic, she had disavowed Christianity by the early 1970s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mary Daly has received more than 489,288 page views. Her biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Mary Daly is the 1,037th most popular philosopher (down from 969th in 2019), the 5,167th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,819th in 2019) and the 47th most popular American Philosopher.

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  • 4.24

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Mary Daly ranks 1,037 out of 1,267. Before her are Jaime Balmes, Sopater of Apamea, Paul Deussen, Cercidas, Alexander Men, and Ecphantus the Pythagorean. After her are Wilhelm Gesenius, Carl Dahlhaus, Theodor Benfey, Thrasyllus of Mendes, R. M. Hare, and Phaenias of Eresus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Mary Daly ranks 325. Before her are Pierre Schoendoerffer, Peter Shirayanagi, Karl Josef Becker, Paul Arizin, Ann Blyth, and Abdul Sattar Edhi. After her are Giuseppe Pinelli, Angus Ogilvy, Tzannis Tzannetakis, Carl Dahlhaus, Robert Dienst, and Irena Veisaitė. Among people deceased in 2010, Mary Daly ranks 214. Before her are Mohammed Mzali, Marcel Domingo, Gheorghe Apostol, Tewhida Ben Sheikh, Otmar Suitner, and Marina Semyonova. After her are Robin Milner, Tzannis Tzannetakis, Charlie Wilson, Carl Adam Petri, Jackie Burroughs, and Ronald Neame.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mary Daly ranks 5,167 out of 20,380. Before her are Susanna Kaysen (1948), Felicia Farr (1932), Pauline Kael (1919), Nas (1973), Robert Webber (1924), and Charles Starkweather (1938). After her are Val Valentino (1956), Dr. John (1941), Herbert Friedman (1916), Nancy Kerrigan (1969), William Hickey (1927), and Stephen Allen Benson (1816).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In United States

Among philosophers born in United States, Mary Daly ranks 47. Before her are Wilfrid Sellars (1912), Harry Frankfurt (1929), Ram Dass (1931), Stanley Cavell (1926), Lon L. Fuller (1902), and Josiah Royce (1855). After her are Hubert Dreyfus (1929), Paul Kurtz (1925), Amina Wadud (1952), Barrington Moore Jr. (1913), Richard Posner (1939), and Ned Block (1942).

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