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Wangari Maathai

1940 - 2011

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Wangarĩ Muta 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. Scholastica and a master's degree from the University of Pittsburgh. She went on to become the first woman in East and Central Africa to become a Doctor of Philosophy, receiving her Ph.D. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wangari Maathai has received more than 1,849,520 page views. Her biography is available in 93 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 89 in 2019). Wangari Maathai is the 1,024th most popular politician (down from 834th in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Kenya 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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  • 93

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.31

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.77

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Wangari Maathai ranks 1,024 out of 15,577. Before her are Ivan V of Russia, Nabonidus, Frederick V of the Palatinate, Xiang Yu, Dzhokhar Dudayev, and Harald Bluetooth. After her are Abd el-Krim, Princess Stéphanie of Belgium, Nestor, Trygve Lie, Zeno, and Isabel Martínez de Perón.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Wangari Maathai ranks 20. Before her are Frank Zappa, Carlos Slim, Muhammad Yunus, Qaboos bin Said al Said, Joachim Gauck, and J. M. Coetzee. After her are Martin Sheen, Julie Christie, Gao Xingjian, Pina Bausch, Zodiac Killer, and Giorgio Moroder. Among people deceased in 2011, Wangari Maathai ranks 13. Before her are Otto von Habsburg, Cesária Évora, Burhanuddin Rabbani, Sathya Sai Baba, Peter Falk, and Svetlana Alliluyeva. After her are Sócrates, Joe Frazier, Annie Girardot, Ágota Kristóf, Ramiz Alia, and Rosalyn Sussman Yalow.

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In Kenya

Among people born in Kenya, Wangari Maathai ranks 2 out of 140. Before her are Richard Dawkins (1941). After her are Barack Obama Sr. (1936), Jomo Kenyatta (1893), Louis Leakey (1903), Richard Leakey (1944), Roger Whittaker (1936), Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (1938), Daniel arap Moi (1924), Deep Roy (1949), Mwai Kibaki (1931), and Eliud Kipchoge (1984).

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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), Raila Odinga (1945), Tom Mboya (1930), Amina Mohamed (1961), and Peres Jepchirchir (1993).

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