SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Norma McCorvey

1947 - 2017

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Norma Leah Nelson McCorvey (September 22, 1947 – February 18, 2017), also known by the pseudonym "Jane Roe", was the plaintiff in the landmark American legal case Roe v. Wade in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1973 that individual state laws banning abortion were unconstitutional. Later in her life, McCorvey became an Evangelical Protestant and in her remaining years, a Roman Catholic, and took part in the anti-abortion movement. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Norma McCorvey has received more than 4,277,311 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Norma McCorvey is the 646th most popular social activist, the 11,877th most popular biography from United States and the 106th most popular American Social Activist.

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  • 18

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  • 1.74

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  • 3.57

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Norma McCorvey ranks 646 out of 840. Before her are Ashin Wirathu, Lydia Cacho, Tarab Abdul Hadi, Angelina Grimké, Oleksandra Matviichuk, and Phoebe Hearst. After her are William Smith O'Brien, Salih Mahmoud Osman, Harry Hay, Bogaletch Gebre, Bram Fischer, and Maria Verónica Reina.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Norma McCorvey ranks 789. Before her are Peter Noone, Dana Rohrabacher, Manfred Klein, Tron Øgrim, Dao Bandon, and Carry Geijssen. After her are Bruce Golding, Gabriele Hinzmann, Robert Lighthizer, Gennadiy Tsygankov, Rupert Hine, and John Ralston Saul. Among people deceased in 2017, Norma McCorvey ranks 573. Before her are Zdravko Hebel, Ed Lee, Connie Hawkins, Muhal Richard Abrams, Carme Chacón, and Ricardo Vidal. After her are Miguel Ángel Loayza, Nancy Dupree, J. P. Donleavy, Robert Elsie, Udupi Ramachandra Rao, and Zdeněk Šreiner.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Norma McCorvey ranks 11,877 out of 20,380. Before her are Tania Raymonde (1988), James Williamson (1949), Einar Haugen (1906), John Bell Hatcher (1861), Joseph M. Acaba (1967), and Jonathan Breck (1965). After her are Alice Evans (1971), Steven M. Greer (1955), Louis A. Johnson (1891), D'Arcy Carden (1980), Robert Horry (1970), and Kimmy Robertson (1954).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Norma McCorvey ranks 106. Before her are Mary McLeod Bethune (1875), Yolanda King (1955), Amelia Boynton Robinson (1911), Lucy Burns (1879), Angelina Grimké (1805), and Phoebe Hearst (1842). After her are Bobby Henderson (1980), Derek Chauvin (1976), Fannie Lou Hamer (1917), Frank Kameny (1925), Tarana Burke (1973), and Gloria Allred (1941).

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