SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Mary Dyer

1611 - 1660

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Mary Dyer (born Marie Barrett; c. 1611 – 1 June 1660) was an English and colonial American Puritan-turned-Quaker who was hanged in Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony, for repeatedly defying a Puritan law banning Quakers from the colony. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mary Dyer has received more than 656,379 page views. Her biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia. Mary Dyer is the 417th most popular social activist (down from 354th in 2019), the 2,832nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,612th in 2019) and the 25th most popular British Social Activist.

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  • 660k

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  • 50.39

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.63

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.59

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Mary Dyer ranks 417 out of 840. Before her are Miroslav Tyrš, Mary Harris Jones, Mahmoud Taleghani, Shireen Abu Akleh, Mary Edwards Walker, and Abdul Sattar Edhi. After her are Samantha Smith, Giuseppe Pinelli, Josephine Butler, Eugene V. Debs, Iosif Grigulevich, and Saalumarada Thimmakka.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1611, Mary Dyer ranks 19. Before her are Carlo Rainaldi, Magdalene of Nagasaki, James Harrington, Henry Ireton, Willem van de Velde the Elder, and Giancarlo de' Medici. After her are Andreas Hammerschmidt, John Pell, and Willem Piso. Among people deceased in 1660, Mary Dyer ranks 23. Before her are Giovanni Battista Hodierna, Govert Flinck, Jacob Cats, Maria Gonzaga, Duchess of Montferrat, Matthias Stom, and John Casimir, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau. After her are Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester, Joos van Craesbeeck, and Chimalpahin.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Mary Dyer ranks 2,832 out of 8,785. Before her are Edmund Goulding (1891), Ian Hart (1964), Tommy Flanagan (1965), Ernest Starling (1866), Sidney Gilchrist Thomas (1850), and Rebecca Clarke (1886). After her are Henrietta Godolphin, 2nd Duchess of Marlborough (1681), Matthew Vaughn (1971), Henry Salt (1780), Nevil Shute (1899), Edmund Campion (1540), and Israel Regardie (1907).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United Kingdom

Among social activists born in United Kingdom, Mary Dyer ranks 25. Before her are Millicent Fawcett (1847), Unity Mitford (1914), Charles Boycott (1832), Robert Catesby (1573), James Guillaume (1844), and Venetia Burney (1918). After her are Josephine Butler (1828), Donald Watson (1910), Mary Toft (1703), Jack Sheppard (1702), Hereward the Wake (1035), and Grey Owl (1888).

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