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Mathew Brady

1822 - 1896

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Mathew Benjamin Brady (c. 1822–1824 – January 15, 1896) was an American photographer. Known as one of the earliest and most famous photographers in American history, he is best known for his scenes of the Civil War. He studied under inventor Samuel Morse, who pioneered the daguerreotype technique in America. Brady opened his own studio in New York City in 1844, and went on to photograph U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mathew Brady has received more than 1,489,666 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Mathew Brady is the 406th most popular social activist (down from 363rd in 2019), the 4,956th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,825th in 2019) and the 48th most popular American Social Activist.

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  • 1.5M

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  • 50.68

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.43

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Mathew Brady ranks 406 out of 840. Before him are Venetia Burney, William Howard Russell, Martin Guerre, Amal Clooney, Marina Oswald Porter, and Catharine MacKinnon. After him are Borys Romanchenko, Louise Bryant, Yagan, Muthulakshmi Reddy, Miroslav Tyrš, and Mary Harris Jones.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1822, Mathew Brady ranks 56. Before him are Apollonie Sabatier, Bernhard Hammer, Dmitry Grigorovich, Luis Sáenz Peña, Frederick Law Olmsted, and Alexander Mackenzie. After him are August Heinrich Petermann, Willem Roelofs, Peter Michal Bohúň, Victor Massé, Wilhelm Bauer, and Nikolay Ilminsky. Among people deceased in 1896, Mathew Brady ranks 63. Before him are Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg, Amelia Dyer, Mårten Eskil Winge, Félix Tisserand, Gustav Adolf, Cardinal Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, and Jane Wilde. After him are Walthère Frère-Orban, Hamad bin Thuwaini of Zanzibar, Alexey Bogolyubov, Simeon Bavier, Élie-Abel Carrière, and Aleksandr Stoletov.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mathew Brady ranks 4,956 out of 20,380. Before him are Eric S. Raymond (1957), Sylvanus Morley (1883), John Henry Holland (1929), Billie Joe Armstrong (1972), Alice Hamilton (1869), and Ann Wilson (1950). After him are Rockmond Dunbar (1974), Marianne Moore (1887), Eric Bogosian (1953), Hank Jones (1918), William D. Leahy (1875), and Henry Russell (1904).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Mathew Brady ranks 48. Before him are Otto Warmbier (1994), Claudette Colvin (1939), Alice Paul (1885), Huey P. Newton (1942), Bayard Rustin (1912), and Catharine MacKinnon (1946). After him are Louise Bryant (1885), Mary Edwards Walker (1832), Samantha Smith (1972), Eugene V. Debs (1855), Afeni Shakur (1947), and Leonard Peltier (1944).

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