SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Rachel Corrie

1979 - 2003

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Rachel Aliene Corrie (April 10, 1979 – March 16, 2003) was an American activist and diarist. She was a member of the pro-Palestinian International Solidarity Movement (ISM) and was active throughout the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories. In 2003, Corrie was in Rafah, a city in the Gaza Strip, where the Israeli military was demolishing Palestinian houses at the height of the Second Intifada. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rachel Corrie has received more than 1,825,417 page views. Her biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Rachel Corrie is the 612th most popular social activist (down from 541st in 2019), the 10,630th most popular biography from United States (up from 10,849th in 2019) and the 96th most popular American Social Activist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.8M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 42.81

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 45

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.88

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.16

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Rachel Corries by language

Over the past year Rachel Corrie has had the most page views in the with 731,788 views, followed by Turkish (24,816), and Arabic (21,592). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are English (346.57%), Portuguese (305.96%), and German (285.20%)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Rachel Corrie ranks 612 out of 840. Before her are Anna Aloys Henga, Aaron Swartz, Jadav Payeng, Agnès Callamard, Mario Savio, and James Larkin. After her are Albertina Sisulu, Robert Emmet, Betty Ong, Jan Egeland, Frances Willard, and Irene Fernandez.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1979, Rachel Corrie ranks 213. Before her are Hiromi Uehara, Joaquim Rodríguez, Marielle Franco, Vlada Avramov, Taavi Rõivas, and Sabina Babayeva. After her are Mamadou Niang, Soo Ae, Tobias Linderoth, Mindy Kaling, Doni, and The Game. Among people deceased in 2003, Rachel Corrie ranks 333. Before her are Éva Janikovszky, Georgi Vladimov, Marie Maynard Daly, Vera Zorina, Tony Thompson, and John Aston Sr.. After her are Grigory Mkrtychan, Rajko Žižić, Trevor Ford, Sheb Wooley, Edward F. Moore, and Eddie Thomson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Rachel Corrie ranks 10,630 out of 20,380. Before her are Geri Allen (1957), John Prine (1946), Peter Horton (1953), Billy Brown (1970), Scott Asheton (1949), and Erik King (1963). After her are Evan Williams (1972), Lesley Ashburner (1883), Stephen Vincent Benét (1898), Ward Kimball (1914), Xavier Becerra (1958), and Jason Earles (1977).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Rachel Corrie ranks 96. Before her are Andrea James (1967), Ella Baker (1903), Martin Luther King III (1957), Lillian Wald (1867), Aaron Swartz (1986), and Mario Savio (1942). After her are Betty Ong (1956), Frances Willard (1839), Mary McLeod Bethune (1875), Yolanda King (1955), Amelia Boynton Robinson (1911), and Lucy Burns (1879).

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