SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Tarana Burke

1973 - Today

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Tarana Burke (born September 12, 1973) is an American activist from New York City, who started the MeToo movement. In 2006, Burke began using MeToo to help other women with similar experiences to stand up for themselves. Over a decade later, in 2017, #MeToo became a viral hashtag when Alyssa Milano and other women began using it to tweet about the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse cases. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tarana Burke has received more than 2,181,651 page views. Her biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Tarana Burke is the 665th most popular social activist (down from 575th in 2019), the 12,908th most popular biography from United States (down from 12,699th in 2019) and the 111th most popular American Social Activist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.85

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.05

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.05

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Tarana Burke ranks 665 out of 840. Before her are Henrietta Edwards, Anthony Dod Mantle, Derek Chauvin, Fartuun Adan, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Frank Kameny. After her are Maryam Namazie, Randa Siniora, Siti Musdah Mulia, Susana Trimarco, Shin Dong-hyuk, and Felix Nartey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1973, Tarana Burke ranks 457. Before her are Ermin Šiljak, Riadh Bouazizi, Dejan Tomašević, Hakan Ünsal, Emre Aşık, and Aurela Gaçe. After her are Paolo Savoldelli, Alberto Undiano Mallenco, Meritxell Batet, Zhao Hongbo, Stefano Garzelli, and Aviv Geffen.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Tarana Burke ranks 12,908 out of 20,380. Before her are Kathleen Hanna (1968), Kay Bailey Hutchison (1943), JoAnna Garcia (1979), Laird Cregar (1913), Marion Mahony Griffin (1871), and Jim Bunning (1931). After her are Alonzo Babers (1961), Erica Gimpel (1964), Hugh Howey (1975), Joseph Wambaugh (1937), Joan Benoit (1957), and Tex Beneke (1914).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Tarana Burke ranks 111. Before her are Phoebe Hearst (1842), Norma McCorvey (1947), Bobby Henderson (1980), Derek Chauvin (1976), Fannie Lou Hamer (1917), and Frank Kameny (1925). After her are Gloria Allred (1941), Ruthie Tompson (1910), Juliette Gordon Low (1860), Wendell Phillips (1811), Walter Reuther (1907), and Pauli Murray (1910).

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