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SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Mary Edwards Walker

1832 - 1919

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Mary Edwards Walker (November 26, 1832 – February 21, 1919), commonly referred to as Dr. Mary Walker, was an American abolitionist, prohibitionist, prisoner of war, and surgeon. She is the only woman to receive the Medal of Honor.In 1855, she earned her medical degree at Syracuse Medical College in New York, married and started a medical practice. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mary Edwards Walker has received more than 1,113,886 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Mary Edwards Walker is the 345th most popular social activist (down from 322nd in 2019), the 4,416th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,691st in 2019) and the 41st most popular American Social Activist.

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  • 21

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  • 3.09

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Mary Edwards Walker ranks 345 out of 538Before her are Muhammad Zaidan, François-Jean de la Barre, Nasrin Sotoudeh, Susannah Mushatt Jones, Edna Parker, and Donald Watson. After her are Anatoly Marchenko, Lee Radziwill, Sultan al-Atrash, Toyohiko Kagawa, Natalya Estemirova, and Venetia Burney.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1832, Mary Edwards Walker ranks 55Before her are Julius von Sachs, Alvan Graham Clark, Colin Archer, Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts, Jules Vallès, and Charilaos Trikoupis. After her are Johann Joseph Abert, Lina Sandell, Wilhelm Julius Foerster, Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino, Leslie Stephen, and Pavel Chistyakov. Among people deceased in 1919, Mary Edwards Walker ranks 95Before her are Laurence Doherty, Vasily Rozanov, Francisco Moreno, Jérôme Eugène Coggia, Edward Poynter, and Saovabha Phongsri. After her are André Prévost, Mikhail Tugan-Baranovsky, Aaron Aaronsohn, Woldemar Voigt, Evgraf Fedorov, and Amado Nervo.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mary Edwards Walker ranks 4,416 out of 18,182Before her are W. S. Van Dyke (1889), Charles Koch (1935), Raymond Smith Dugan (1878), Elihu Yale (1649), David Bushnell (1742), and Paul Chambers (1935). After her are Todd Rundgren (1948), Charles Fort (1874), David Zucker (1947), Juanita Moore (1914), Corey Taylor (1973), and Joan Osborne (1962).

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Mary Edwards Walker ranks 41Before her are Alice Paul (1885), Lucretia Mott (1793), Amelia Bloomer (1818), Black Elk (1863), Susannah Mushatt Jones (1899), and Edna Parker (1893). After her are Lee Radziwill (1933), Dorothy Day (1897), Jerry Rubin (1938), Claudette Colvin (1939), Mathew Brady (1822), and Louise Bryant (1885).