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Mary Seacole

1805 - 1881

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Mary Jane Seacole (née Grant; 23 November 1805 – 14 May 1881) was a British nurse and businesswoman. Seacole was born to a Creole mother who ran a boarding house and had herbalist skills as a "doctress". In 1990, Seacole was (posthumously) awarded the Jamaican Order of Merit. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mary Seacole has received more than 2,490,150 page views. Her biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Mary Seacole is the 3,349th most popular writer (up from 3,659th in 2019), the 18th most popular biography from Jamaica (up from 23rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Jamaican Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.60

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.80

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.55

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Mary Seacole ranks 3,349 out of 5,755. Before her are Thor Vilhjálmsson, Giosafat Barbaro, Edith Durham, Gʻafur Gʻulom, Sergio Ramírez, and Viktor Rydberg. After her are Angelos Sikelianos, Bragi Boddason, Elia Abu Madi, Casimir Delavigne, Erri De Luca, and Olga Bergholz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1805, Mary Seacole ranks 40. Before her are Prosper Guéranger, Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Johann Karl Rodbertus, Alexander Braun, Anton von Schmerling, and Sarah Fuller Flower Adams. After her are Mastoureh Ardalan, Johann von Lamont, Esteban Echeverría, Auguste Barbier, Hugo von Mohl, and Alexander Burnes. Among people deceased in 1881, Mary Seacole ranks 55. Before her are August Šenoa, Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann, Johann Kaspar Bluntschli, Konstantin Thon, Karl Christian Bruhns, and Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens. After her are Ambrose Burnside, Aleksey Pisemsky, Édouard Drouyn de Lhuys, Andrei Zhelyabov, Jean-Baptiste Nothomb, and Robert Mallet.

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In Jamaica

Among people born in Jamaica, Mary Seacole ranks 18 out of 168. Before her are Trevor Berbick (1954), Violet Brown (1900), Patrick Ewing (1962), Madge Sinclair (1938), Desmond Dekker (1941), and Martine Beswick (1941). After her are Sean Paul (1973), DJ Kool Herc (1955), Stephen Hopkins (1958), Max Romeo (1944), Bunny Wailer (1947), and Merlene Ottey (1960).

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Among WRITERS In Jamaica

Among writers born in Jamaica, Mary Seacole ranks 2. Before her are Marcus Garvey (1887). After her are Leonard Howell (1898), Claude McKay (1889), Linton Kwesi Johnson (1952), Marlon James (1970), and Nalo Hopkinson (1960).

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