1913 - 2005
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott. The United States Congress has honored her as "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement".Parks became an NAACP activist in 1943, participating in several high-profile civil rights campaigns. On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks rejected bus driver James F. Blake's order to vacate a row of four seats in the "colored" section in favor of a white passenger, once the "white" section was filled. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rosa Parks has received more than 20,306,296 page views. Her biography is available in 99 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 97 in 2019). Rosa Parks is the 18th most popular social activist (down from 15th in 2019), the 106th most popular biography from United States (down from 89th in 2019) and the 5th most popular American Social Activist.
Rosa Parks is most famous for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger.
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Among social activists, Rosa Parks ranks 18 out of 538. Before her are Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Jean-Paul Marat, Aung San Suu Kyi, Claus von Stauffenberg, Guy Fawkes, and Robert Owen. After her are Lady Godiva, Gustav I of Sweden, Peter Kropotkin, Charlotte Corday, Olympe de Gouges, and Irena Sendler.
1746 - 1827
HPI: 76.85
Rank: 12
1743 - 1793
HPI: 76.23
Rank: 13
1945 - Present
HPI: 76.08
Rank: 14
1907 - 1944
HPI: 75.89
Rank: 15
1570 - 1606
HPI: 75.22
Rank: 16
1771 - 1858
HPI: 75.20
Rank: 17
1913 - 2005
HPI: 75.18
Rank: 18
990 - 1067
HPI: 73.80
Rank: 19
1496 - 1560
HPI: 73.66
Rank: 20
1842 - 1921
HPI: 73.06
Rank: 21
1768 - 1793
HPI: 72.82
Rank: 22
1748 - 1793
HPI: 71.95
Rank: 23
1910 - 2008
HPI: 71.83
Rank: 24
Among people born in 1913, Rosa Parks ranks 4. Before her are Albert Camus, Richard Nixon, and Vivien Leigh. After her are Gerald Ford, Willy Brandt, Menachem Begin, Jean Marais, Robert Capa, Josef Bican, Jesse Owens, and Burt Lancaster. Among people deceased in 2005, Rosa Parks ranks 3. Before her are Pope John Paul II and Edward Heath. After her are Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, Peter Drucker, George Best, Claude Simon, Fahd of Saudi Arabia, Paul Ricœur, Simon Wiesenthal, Arthur Miller, and Rinus Michels.
1913 - 1960
HPI: 83.70
Rank: 1
1913 - 1994
HPI: 79.02
Rank: 2
1913 - 1967
HPI: 76.69
Rank: 3
1913 - 2005
HPI: 75.18
Rank: 4
1913 - 2006
HPI: 75.13
Rank: 5
1913 - 1992
HPI: 74.81
Rank: 6
1913 - 1992
HPI: 73.37
Rank: 7
1913 - 1998
HPI: 72.48
Rank: 8
1913 - 1954
HPI: 72.01
Rank: 9
1913 - 2001
HPI: 71.63
Rank: 10
1913 - 1980
HPI: 71.38
Rank: 11
1913 - 1994
HPI: 70.44
Rank: 12
1920 - 2005
HPI: 85.38
Rank: 1
1916 - 2005
HPI: 75.75
Rank: 2
1913 - 2005
HPI: 75.18
Rank: 3
1923 - 2005
HPI: 74.23
Rank: 4
1909 - 2005
HPI: 71.68
Rank: 5
1946 - 2005
HPI: 71.06
Rank: 6
1913 - 2005
HPI: 69.97
Rank: 7
1921 - 2005
HPI: 69.94
Rank: 8
1913 - 2005
HPI: 69.69
Rank: 9
1908 - 2005
HPI: 69.41
Rank: 10
1915 - 2005
HPI: 69.18
Rank: 11
1928 - 2005
HPI: 69.05
Rank: 12
Among people born in United States, Rosa Parks ranks 106 out of 18,182. Before her are Jim Morrison (1943), Richard Feynman (1918), Michael Douglas (1944), Edwin Hubble (1889), Debbie Reynolds (1932), and Milton Friedman (1912). After her are Barack Obama (1961), Nicolas Cage (1964), Gerald Ford (1913), Douglas MacArthur (1880), Bhumibol Adulyadej (1927), and Lyndon B. Johnson (1908).
1943 - 1971
HPI: 75.49
Rank: 100
1918 - 1988
HPI: 75.46
Rank: 101
1944 - Present
HPI: 75.32
Rank: 102
1889 - 1953
HPI: 75.32
Rank: 103
1932 - 2016
HPI: 75.24
Rank: 104
1912 - 2006
HPI: 75.22
Rank: 105
1913 - 2005
HPI: 75.18
Rank: 106
1961 - Present
HPI: 75.18
Rank: 107
1964 - Present
HPI: 75.15
Rank: 108
1913 - 2006
HPI: 75.13
Rank: 109
1880 - 1964
HPI: 75.02
Rank: 110
1927 - 2016
HPI: 74.87
Rank: 111
1908 - 1973
HPI: 74.75
Rank: 112
Among social activists born in United States, Rosa Parks ranks 5. Before her are Malcolm X (1925), Eleanor Roosevelt (1884), Martin Luther King Jr. (1929), and Helen Keller (1880). After her are Emily Greene Balch (1867), Harriet Tubman (1820), Angela Davis (1944), Jane Addams (1860), Jimmy Hoffa (1913), Bugsy Siegel (1906), and Susan B. Anthony (1820).
1925 - 1965
HPI: 83.94
Rank: 1
1884 - 1962
HPI: 79.77
Rank: 2
1929 - 1968
HPI: 78.22
Rank: 3
1880 - 1968
HPI: 77.80
Rank: 4
1913 - 2005
HPI: 75.18
Rank: 5
1867 - 1961
HPI: 69.09
Rank: 6
1820 - 1913
HPI: 66.45
Rank: 7
1944 - Present
HPI: 65.53
Rank: 8
1860 - 1935
HPI: 65.48
Rank: 9
1913 - 1975
HPI: 65.03
Rank: 10
1906 - 1947
HPI: 63.55
Rank: 11
1820 - 1906
HPI: 62.33
Rank: 12