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SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Nancy Wake

1912 - 2011

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Nancy Grace Augusta Wake, (30 August 1912 – 7 August 2011), also known as Madame Fiocca and Nancy Fiocca, was a nurse and journalist who joined the French Resistance and later the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II, and briefly pursued a post-war career as an intelligence officer in the Air Ministry. The official historian of the SOE, M. R. D. Foot, said that "her irrepressible, infectious, high spirits were a joy to everyone who worked with her". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nancy Wake has received more than 1,779,981 page views. Her biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Nancy Wake is the 229th most popular social activist (up from 260th in 2019), the 21st most popular biography from New Zealand (up from 23rd in 2019) and the most popular New Zealander Social Activist.

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  • 34

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  • 3.34

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Nancy Wake ranks 229 out of 538. Before her are Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson, Christoph Probst, Carl Oberg, Ryszard Siwiec, Izz ad-Din al-Qassam, and Nikolai Kuznetsov. After her are Abba Kovner, Anna Hazare, Hazi Aslanov, Jean Ziegler, Marina Ginestà, and Billy Milligan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Nancy Wake ranks 112. Before her are Princess Caroline-Mathilde of Denmark, Jean Françaix, Edmond Jabès, Salah al-Din al-Bitar, Marcel Camus, and Joachim Schepke. After her are Kaneto Shindo, Domingos da Guia, Martha Scott, Feroze Gandhi, David Packard, and Isidro Lángara. Among people deceased in 2011, Nancy Wake ranks 98. Before her are Warren Christopher, Nguyễn Cao Kỳ, Danielle Mitterrand, Juan María Bordaberry, Pinetop Perkins, and Archduke Felix of Austria. After her are Marie-France Pisier, Facundo Cabral, Ján Popluhár, Christopher Hitchens, Roman Opałka, and Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Hohenberg.

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In New Zealand

Among people born in New Zealand, Nancy Wake ranks 21 out of 248. Before her are Alan MacDiarmid (1927), Chris Amon (1943), Lucy Lawless (1968), Bruce Spence (1945), Rosé (1997), and Karl Urban (1972). After her are Alan Dale (1947), Temuera Morrison (1960), Manu Bennett (1969), Marton Csokas (1966), Ngaio Marsh (1895), and Graham McRae (1940).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In New Zealand

Among social activists born in New Zealand, Nancy Wake ranks 1. 

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