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Sally Hemings

1773 - 1835

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Sarah "Sally" Hemings (c. 1773 – 1835) was a female slave with one-quarter African ancestry owned by president of the United States Thomas Jefferson, one of many he inherited from his father-in-law, John Wayles. Hemings's mother was Betty Hemings, the daughter of a female slave and an English captain, John Hemings. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sally Hemings has received more than 6,494,680 page views. Her biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Sally Hemings is the 70th most popular celebrity (up from 74th in 2019), the 3,498th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,666th in 2019) and the 26th most popular American Celebrity.

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  • 6.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.66

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.12

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among CELEBRITIES

Among celebrities, Sally Hemings ranks 70 out of 181. Before her are Wil van Gogh, Bep Voskuijl, Christine Keeler, Natascha Kampusch, Jane Morris, and Afghan Girl. After her are Evelyn McHale, Kourtney Kardashian, Denise Perrier, Ethel Kennedy, Lindow Man, and Joseph Augustus Zarelli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1773, Sally Hemings ranks 26. Before her are Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, Tokugawa Ienari, Prince Louis Charles of Prussia, Étienne Maurice Gérard, William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst, and Ioannis Kolettis. After her are Duchess Therese of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Jakob Friedrich Fries, Josef Jungmann, Henrik Steffens, Giuseppe Acerbi, and Yuri Lisyansky. Among people deceased in 1835, Sally Hemings ranks 17. Before her are John Nash, Izabela Czartoryska, Archduke Anton Victor of Austria, Julius Klaproth, August von Platen-Hallermünde, and John Marshall. After her are Friedrich Stromeyer, Tomás de Zumalacárregui, Princess Sophie of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Leopoldo Nobili, Franz von Paula Schrank, and Rain-in-the-Face.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Sally Hemings ranks 3,498 out of 18,182. Before her are Tony Sirico (1942), Joel Grey (1932), Akon (1973), Julie Harris (1925), Arturs Krišjānis Kariņš (1964), and Edward Gorey (1925). After her are Erroll Garner (1923), Sister Rosetta Tharpe (1915), Adam Levine (1979), Edward Bellamy (1850), Steve Perry (1949), and Deke Slayton (1924).

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Among CELEBRITIES In United States

Among celebrities born in United States, Sally Hemings ranks 26. Before her are Florence Owens Thompson (1903), Annie Oakley (1860), Barbara Hutton (1912), Lizzie Borden (1860), Paris Hilton (1981), and Madeleine Astor (1893). After her are Evelyn McHale (1923), Kourtney Kardashian (1979), Ethel Kennedy (1928), Joseph Augustus Zarelli (1953), Roy Sullivan (1912), and Johnny Appleseed (1774).

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