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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 229,247 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Venetia Burney is the 351st most popular social activist (down from 312th in 2019), the 2,603rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,538th in 2019) and the 25th most popular British Social Activist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 230k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.02

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.79

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.34

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Venetia Burney ranks 351 out of 538. Before her are Mary Edwards Walker, Anatoly Marchenko, Lee Radziwill, Sultan al-Atrash, Toyohiko Kagawa, and Natalya Estemirova. After her are William Howard Russell, Deniz Gezmiş, Mary Dyer, Mary Toft, Dorothy Day, and Jerry Rubin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Venetia Burney ranks 159. Before her are Jelle Zijlstra, Abraham Robinson, Oles Honchar, Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad, Robert Ettinger, and Pyotr Masherov. After her are Suzanne Flon, Alfredo Ovando Candía, Arthur Chung, Shinobu Hashimoto, Barry Morse, and Gérard de Vaucouleurs. Among people deceased in 2009, Venetia Burney ranks 168. Before her are Mike Bongiorno, Dom DeLuise, Knut Haugland, Otto Graf Lambsdorff, Natalya Estemirova, and Peter Shirayanagi. After her are Janet Jagan, Zequinha, Willem Johan Kolff, Edward Woodward, Jack Kramer, and Lis Hartel.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Venetia Burney ranks 2,603 out of 7,765. Before her are Tommy Lawrence (1940), Richard Bremmer (1953), Phil Campbell (1961), Nobby Stiles (1942), Gertrude Jekyll (1843), and Catherine of York (1479). After her are Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon (1609), John Wilkes (1725), Gladys Cooper (1888), Jeremy Bulloch (1945), Ralph Abercromby (1734), and Sergey Kapitsa (1928).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United Kingdom

Among social activists born in United Kingdom, Venetia Burney ranks 25. Before her are Allan Octavian Hume (1829), Millicent Fawcett (1847), Sylvia Pankhurst (1882), Christabel Pankhurst (1880), James Guillaume (1844), and Donald Watson (1910). After her are Mary Dyer (1611), Mary Toft (1703), Grey Owl (1888), Jack Sheppard (1702), Octavia Hill (1838), and Abdalqadir as-Sufi (1930).

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