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Wangari Maathai

1940 - 2011

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Wangarĩ Maathai (; 1 April 1940 – 25 September 2011) was a Kenyan social, environmental, and political activist who founded the Green Belt Movement, an environmental non-governmental organization focused on the planting of trees, environmental conservation, and women's rights. In 2004 she became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. As a beneficiary of the Kennedy Airlift, she studied in the United States, earning a bachelor's degree from Mount St. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wangari Maathai has received more than 1,878,231 page views. Her biography is available in 97 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 93 in 2019). Wangari Maathai is the 909th most popular politician (up from 1,022nd in 2019), the most popular biography from Kenya (up from 2nd in 2019) and the most popular Kenyan Politician.

Wangari Maathai is an environmental and political activist from Kenya. She is most famous for her work in planting trees to combat deforestation.

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  • 97

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.29

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.89

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Wangari Maathai ranks 909 out of 19,576. Before her are Charles XV of Sweden, Xiang Yu, Gordian I, Basil II, Valentinian II, and Safiyya bint Huyayy. After her are Galla Placidia, Constantine V, Nadezhda Krupskaya, Josiah, Ancus Marcius, and Tullus Hostilius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Wangari Maathai ranks 17. Before her are Ringo Starr, Nursultan Nazarbayev, J. M. G. Le Clézio, Qaboos bin Said al Said, Bartholomew I of Constantinople, and Frank Zappa. After her are Gao Xingjian, Muhammad Yunus, J. M. Coetzee, Carlos Slim, Joseph Brodsky, and Michel Temer. Among people deceased in 2011, Wangari Maathai ranks 11. Before her are Osama bin Laden, Elizabeth Taylor, Otto von Habsburg, Cesária Évora, Svetlana Alliluyeva, and Peter Falk. After her are Sócrates, Sathya Sai Baba, Joe Frazier, Annie Girardot, Ágota Kristóf, and Flórián Albert.

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In Kenya

Among people born in Kenya, Wangari Maathai ranks 1 out of 150. After her are Richard Dawkins (1941), Barack Obama Sr. (1936), Roger Whittaker (1936), Jomo Kenyatta (1893), Louis Leakey (1903), Daniel arap Moi (1924), Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (1938), Deep Roy (1949), Mwai Kibaki (1931), Richard Leakey (1944), and Kipchoge Keino (1940).

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Among POLITICIANS In Kenya

Among politicians born in Kenya, Wangari Maathai ranks 1. After her are Jomo Kenyatta (1893), Daniel arap Moi (1924), Mwai Kibaki (1931), Uhuru Kenyatta (1961), William Ruto (1966), Raila Odinga (1945), Jaramogi Oginga Odinga (1911), Tom Mboya (1930), Peres Jepchirchir (1993), and Amina Mohamed (1961).

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