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Sally Hemings

1773 - 1835

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Sarah "Sally" Hemings (c. 1773 – 1835) was a woman enslaved to third President of the United States Thomas Jefferson, inherited among many others from his father-in-law, John Wayles. Hemings' mother was Betty Hemings, the daughter of an enslaved woman and an English captain, John Hemings. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sally Hemings has received more than 6,795,771 page views. Her biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Sally Hemings is the 77th most popular celebrity (down from 70th in 2019), the 3,590th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,488th in 2019) and the 28th most popular American Celebrity.

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  • 25

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  • 2.11

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  • 4.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CELEBRITIES

Among celebrities, Sally Hemings ranks 77 out of 265Before her are Daisy, Princess of Pless, Denise Perrier, Ota Benga, Evelyn McHale, Madeleine Astor, and Manuel Uribe. After her are Ethel Kennedy, Kourtney Kardashian, Tiffany Trump, Aaron Kosminski, Georgina Rizk, and Genie.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1773, Sally Hemings ranks 32Before her are Ioannis Kolettis, Prince Louis Charles of Prussia, Jakob Friedrich Fries, Josef Jungmann, Yuri Lisyansky, and Duchess Therese of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. After her are Frédéric Cuvier, William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst, Henrik Steffens, Joseph de Villèle, Lodewijk van Heiden, and Arthur Aikin. Among people deceased in 1835, Sally Hemings ranks 18Before her are Izabela Czartoryska, August von Platen-Hallermünde, Archduke Anton Victor of Austria, Julius Klaproth, John Marshall, and Friedrich Stromeyer. After her are Princess Sophie of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Tomás de Zumalacárregui, Jan Rustem, Franz von Paula Schrank, Leopoldo Nobili, and Ivan Martos.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Sally Hemings ranks 3,590 out of 20,380Before her are David Graeber (1961), James Rebhorn (1948), Ona Munson (1903), Paula Abdul (1962), Arnold Gesell (1880), and Richard Williams (1942). After her are Peter Strauss (1947), Barry Manilow (1943), Frank Caprio (1936), Adam Baldwin (1962), Barbara Jones (1937), and Peter MacNicol (1954).

Among CELEBRITIES In United States

Among celebrities born in United States, Sally Hemings ranks 28Before her are Edie Sedgwick (1943), Dan Inosanto (1936), Florence Owens Thompson (1903), Roy Sullivan (1912), Evelyn McHale (1923), and Madeleine Astor (1893). After her are Ethel Kennedy (1928), Kourtney Kardashian (1979), Tiffany Trump (1993), Genie (1957), John Rogan (1867), and Virginia Dare (1587).