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SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Robert Owen

1771 - 1858

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Robert Owen (; 14 May 1771 – 17 November 1858) was a Welsh textile manufacturer, philanthropist and social reformer, and a founder of utopian socialism and the co-operative movement. He strove to improve factory working conditions, promoted experimental socialistic communities, and sought a more collective approach to child-rearing, including government control of education. He gained wealth in the early 1800s from a textile mill at New Lanark, Scotland. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Owen has received more than 1,809,716 page views. His biography is available in 65 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 61 in 2019). Robert Owen is the 17th most popular social activist (up from 20th in 2019), the 93rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 122nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular British Social Activist.

Robert Owen was a Welsh social reformer and textile manufacturer who built a model industrial community at New Lanark, Scotland.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Robert Owen ranks 17 out of 538. Before him are Helen Keller, Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Jean-Paul Marat, Aung San Suu Kyi, Claus von Stauffenberg, and Guy Fawkes. After him are Rosa Parks, Lady Godiva, Gustav I of Sweden, Peter Kropotkin, Charlotte Corday, and Olympe de Gouges.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1771, Robert Owen ranks 2. Before him is Walter Scott. After him are Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen, Richard Trevithick, Emperor Kōkaku, Antoine-Jean Gros, Julie Clary, Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg, Princess Louise Auguste of Denmark, Alois Senefelder, and Jean-Andoche Junot. Among people deceased in 1858, Robert Owen ranks 1. After him are Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Robert Brown, Rani of Jhansi, Hiroshige, Karl Thomas Mozart, Matthew C. Perry, John Snow, Anton Diabelli, Johannes Peter Müller, Dred Scott, and Hermann Heinrich Gossen.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Robert Owen ranks 93 out of 7,765. Before him are Edward V of England (1470), Alan Rickman (1946), Roger Bacon (1220), Robert Louis Stevenson (1850), Walter Scott (1771), and Guy Fawkes (1570). After him are Edward VIII (1894), Jane Seymour (1508), George V (1865), William Harvey (1578), Paul McCartney (1942), and Henry VI of England (1421).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United Kingdom

Among social activists born in United Kingdom, Robert Owen ranks 2. Before him are Guy Fawkes (1570). After him are Lady Godiva (990), Nicholas Winton (1909), 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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