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 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Mary Edwards Walker is the 415th most popular social activist (down from 345th in 2019), the 5,156th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,404th in 2019) and the 50th most popular American Social Activist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.39

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.64

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.63

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Mary Edwards Walkers by language

Over the past year Mary Edwards Walker has had the most page views in the with 127,296 views, followed by German (6,034), and Spanish (4,889). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Malayalam (234.34%), Dutch (103.66%), and Basque (80.52%)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Mary Edwards Walker ranks 415 out of 840. Before her are Yagan, Muthulakshmi Reddy, Miroslav Tyrš, Mary Harris Jones, Mahmoud Taleghani, and Shireen Abu Akleh. After her are Abdul Sattar Edhi, Mary Dyer, Samantha Smith, Giuseppe Pinelli, Josephine Butler, and Eugene V. Debs.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1832, Mary Edwards Walker ranks 66. Before her are Colin Archer, Pavel Chistyakov, Wilhelm Julius Foerster, Sergey Botkin, Miroslav Tyrš, and Max Lange. After her are Larin Paraske, Lina Sandell, Alvan Graham Clark, Carl Friedrich Schmidt, Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line, and Lucretia Garfield. Among people deceased in 1919, Mary Edwards Walker ranks 115. Before her are Elia Millosevich, Louis Diémer, Amado Nervo, Mikhail Tugan-Baranovsky, Woldemar Voigt, and Paul Deussen. After her are Tibor Szamuely, Viktor Knorre, Ricardo Palma, José Santos Zelaya, Wallace Clement Sabine, and Henry Clay Frick.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mary Edwards Walker ranks 5,156 out of 20,380. Before her are Sam Anderson (1945), Tera Patrick (1976), Emily Procter (1968), Tyler, the Creator (1991), Emily Deschanel (1976), and Patricia McPherson (1954). After her are Buddy Bolden (1877), George Kojac (1910), Samantha Smith (1972), James Pickens Jr. (1954), Susanna Kaysen (1948), and Felicia Farr (1932).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Mary Edwards Walker ranks 50. Before her are Alice Paul (1885), Huey P. Newton (1942), Bayard Rustin (1912), Catharine MacKinnon (1946), Mathew Brady (1822), and Louise Bryant (1885). After her are Samantha Smith (1972), Eugene V. Debs (1855), Afeni Shakur (1947), Leonard Peltier (1944), Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826), and Lester R. Brown (1934).

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