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SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Nicholas Winton

1909 - 2015

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Sir Nicholas George Winton (né Wertheim; 19 May 1909 – 1 July 2015) was a British stockbroker and humanitarian who helped to rescue Jewish children who were at risk of being murdered by Nazi Germany during the Holocaust. Born to German-Jewish parents who had immigrated to Britain at the beginning of the 20th century, Winton assisted in the rescue of 669 children, most of them Jewish, from Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nicholas Winton has received more than 5,905,121 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia. Nicholas Winton is the 37th most popular social activist (up from 61st in 2019), the 272nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 497th in 2019) and the 4th most popular British Social Activist.

Nicholas Winton was a British humanitarian who organized the rescue of 669 children, most of them Jewish, from Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II.

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  • 68.79

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  • 44

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.75

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.89

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Nicholas Winton ranks 37 out of 538. Before him are Élie Ducommun, Ferdinand Lassalle, Simon Wiesenthal, Sadako Sasaki, Emily Greene Balch, and Simon bar Kokhba. After him are Sophie Scholl, Jan Palach, Emma Goldman, Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī, Emmeline Pankhurst, and Alfred Hermann Fried.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Nicholas Winton ranks 11. Before him are Peter Drucker, Simone Weil, Andrei Gromyko, Mohammed Daoud Khan, Francis Bacon, and Victor Borge. After him are U Thant, Rita Levi-Montalcini, Isaiah Berlin, Kwame Nkrumah, Mohammed V of Morocco, and Li Xiannian. Among people deceased in 2015, Nicholas Winton ranks 16. Before him are Tomas Tranströmer, Helmut Schmidt, B.B. King, Anita Ekberg, Lemmy, and Laura Antonelli. After him are Henning Mankell, Süleyman Demirel, Kim Young-sam, Josef Masopust, Leonard Nimoy, and Ulrich Beck.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Nicholas Winton ranks 272 out of 7,765. Before him are David Lloyd George (1863), John Constable (1776), Jeremy Irons (1948), George Everest (1790), Mary of Teck (1867), and Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (1901). After him are John Keats (1795), Jane Goodall (1934), Benjamin Britten (1913), Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1943), Peter Higgs (1929), and Alec Guinness (1914).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United Kingdom

Among social activists born in United Kingdom, Nicholas Winton ranks 4. Before him are Guy Fawkes (1570), Robert Owen (1771), and Lady Godiva (990). After him are Emmeline Pankhurst (1858), Betty Williams (1943), Annie Besant (1847), Thomas Cranmer (1489), Mairead Maguire (1944), Max Mosley (1940), Unity Mitford (1914), and Emily Davison (1872).

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