SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Venetia Burney

1918 - 2009

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Venetia Katharine Douglas Burney (married name Phair, 11 July 1918 – 30 April 2009) was an English accountant and teacher. She is remembered as the first person to suggest the name Pluto for the dwarf planet discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Venetia Burney has received more than 240,847 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Venetia Burney is the 400th most popular social activist (down from 351st in 2019), the 2,688th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,597th in 2019) and the 24th most popular British Social Activist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 240k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.54

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.40

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.26

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Venetia Burney ranks 400 out of 840. Before her are Nasrin Sotoudeh, Bayard Rustin, Evelyn Mase, Inge Scholl, James Guillaume, and Kamala Nehru. After her are William Howard Russell, Martin Guerre, Amal Clooney, Marina Oswald Porter, Catharine MacKinnon, and Mathew Brady.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Venetia Burney ranks 166. Before her are Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad, Cornell Capa, Zakaria Mohieddin, Alfréd Wetzler, Hermann Zapf, and Pyotr Masherov. After her are Helen Stephens, Meir Vilner, Ted Post, Hank Jones, Gottfried von Einem, and Max Merkel. Among people deceased in 2009, Venetia Burney ranks 181. Before her are Fritz Darges, Grigore Vieru, Betsy Blair, Dom DeLuise, Tomislav Crnković, and Marilyn French. After her are Hans Klenk, Riccardo Cassin, Péter Bacsó, Edward Woodward, Gene Barry, and Henry Gibson.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Venetia Burney ranks 2,688 out of 8,785. Before her are Ken Aston (1915), Rachel Ward (1957), Johnny Haynes (1934), Iain Banks (1954), Biff Byford (1951), and William Knox D'Arcy (1849). After her are Arthur Brown (1942), John Florio (1553), Glen Matlock (1956), Jack Taylor (1930), Israel Zangwill (1864), and Ron Atkinson (1939).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United Kingdom

Among social activists born in United Kingdom, Venetia Burney ranks 24. Before her are Christabel Pankhurst (1880), Millicent Fawcett (1847), Unity Mitford (1914), Charles Boycott (1832), Robert Catesby (1573), and James Guillaume (1844). After her are Mary Dyer (1611), Josephine Butler (1828), Donald Watson (1910), Mary Toft (1703), Jack Sheppard (1702), and Hereward the Wake (1035).

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