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 1,766,646 page views. Her biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Nancy Wake is the 254th most popular social activist (down from 229th in 2019), the 22nd most popular biography from New Zealand (down from 21st in 2019) and the most popular New Zealander Social Activist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.8M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.78

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.99

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Nancy Wakes by language

Over the past year Nancy Wake has had the most page views in the with 133,852 views, followed by French (11,772), and German (10,670). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Bulgarian (56.14%), Georgian (44.95%), and Welsh (44.81%)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Nancy Wake ranks 254 out of 840. Before her are Djamila Bouhired, Ryszard Siwiec, Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson, Li Hongzhi, Alexander Antonov, and Itagaki Taisuke. After her are Tawakkol Karman, Harro Schulze-Boysen, Ignacy Hryniewiecki, Muhamed Mehmedbašić, Christa Schroeder, and Fra Diavolo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Nancy Wake ranks 117. Before her are Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Yaroslav Stetsko, Barbara W. Tuchman, Kaneto Shindo, Aymoré Moreira, and Martin Schwarzschild. After her are David Packard, Joachim Schepke, Maria Montez, Richard Brooks, Marta Eggerth, and Thorbjørn Egner. Among people deceased in 2011, Nancy Wake ranks 107. Before her are Maria Altmann, Lidia Gueiler Tejada, Bernard Collomb, Roland Petit, Charles Napier, and Marie-France Pisier. After her are Bhupen Hazarika, Facundo Cabral, Roman Opałka, Arnfinn Bergmann, Võ Chí Công, and Eliyahu M. Goldratt.

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In New Zealand

Among people born in New Zealand, Nancy Wake ranks 22 out of 303. Before her are Lucy Lawless (1968), John Money (1921), Jane Campion (1954), Rosé (1997), Karl Urban (1972), and Bruce Spence (1945). After her are Marton Csokas (1966), Cliff Curtis (1968), Temuera Morrison (1960), Alan Dale (1947), Wynton Rufer (1962), and Jonah Lomu (1975).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In New Zealand

Among social activists born in New Zealand, Nancy Wake ranks 1. After her are Cindy Kiro (1958), and Meri Mangakāhia (1868).

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