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Rosalynn Carter

1927 - 2023

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Eleanor Rosalynn Carter ( ROH-zə-lin; née Smith; August 18, 1927 – November 19, 2023) was an American writer, activist, and humanitarian who served as the first lady of the United States from 1977 to 1981, as the wife of president Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States. Throughout her decades of public service she was a leading advocate for women's rights and mental health. Carter was born and raised in Plains, Georgia, graduated as valedictorian of Plains High School, and soon after attended Georgia Southwestern College, where she graduated in 1946. She first became attracted to her future husband, also from Plains, after seeing a picture of him in his U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rosalynn Carter has received more than 8,781,228 page views. Her biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). Rosalynn Carter is the 170th most popular companion (up from 224th in 2019), the 729th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,010th in 2019) and the 4th most popular American Companion.

Rosalynn Carter is most famous for being the wife of former President Jimmy Carter and for her work as a mental health advocate.

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  • 8.8M

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  • 64.50

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  • 61

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.85

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.92

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPANIONS

Among companions, Rosalynn Carter ranks 170 out of 784. Before her are Joanna of Bourbon, Agnès Sorel, Eleanor of England, Queen of Castile, Matilda of Flanders, Elizabeth Alexeievna, and Gorgo, Queen of Sparta. After her are Brunhilda of Austrasia, Julia, Isabella of Angoulême, Wahshi ibn Harb, Barbara Radziwiłł, and Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Rosalynn Carter ranks 33. Before her are Marshall Warren Nirenberg, Gilbert Bécaud, Maurice Béjart, Martin Lewis Perl, Juliette Gréco, and John McCarthy. After her are Raúl Alfonsín, Manfred Eigen, Princess Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium, Emmanuelle Riva, Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad, and Angelo Sodano. Among people deceased in 2023, Rosalynn Carter ranks 47. Before her are William Friedkin, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Paul Berg, Wolfgang Schäuble, Martin Amis, and Karel Schwarzenberg. After her are Pervez Musharraf, Alan Arkin, Federico Bahamontes, Tom Wilkinson, Otar Iosseliani, and David McCallum.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Rosalynn Carter ranks 729 out of 20,380. Before her are Buckminster Fuller (1895), Alexander Calder (1898), Danny Glover (1946), Mel Brooks (1926), John Lithgow (1945), and Donald Rumsfeld (1932). After her are Vera Rubin (1928), Kamehameha I (1758), Doris Day (1922), Henry Mancini (1924), Christopher Lambert (1957), and Clyde Tombaugh (1906).

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Among COMPANIONS In United States

Among companions born in United States, Rosalynn Carter ranks 4. Before her are Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929), Olympias (-375), and Priscilla Presley (1945). After her are Linda McCartney (1941), Martha Washington (1731), Mary Todd Lincoln (1818), Mamie Eisenhower (1896), Pat Nixon (1912), Abigail Adams (1744), Neilia Hunter Biden (1942), and Ellen Axson Wilson (1860).

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