1965 - Today
Waris Dirie (Somali: Waris Diiriye) (born in 1965) is a Somali model, author, actress and human rights activist in the fight against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). From 1997 to 2003, she was a UN special ambassador against female genital mutilation. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Waris Dirie has received more than 954,590 page views. Her biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Waris Dirie is the 867th most popular writer (up from 941st in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Somalia (down from 1st in 2019) and the most popular Somali Writer.
Waris Dirie is most famous for her memoir, Desert Flower, which tells the story of her life as a nomadic child and the abuse she suffered at the hands of her father.
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Among writers, Waris Dirie ranks 867 out of 5,794. Before her are Miep Gies, Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus, Theodore Beza, Theodor Fontane, Julius Fučík, and Pietro Bembo. After her are Cao Xueqin, Else Lasker-Schüler, Richard Matheson, Kobayashi Issa, Nestor the Chronicler, and Tukaram.
1909 - 2010
HPI: 71.11
Rank: 861
64 BC - 8
HPI: 71.10
Rank: 862
1519 - 1605
HPI: 71.09
Rank: 863
1819 - 1898
HPI: 71.09
Rank: 864
1903 - 1943
HPI: 71.09
Rank: 865
1470 - 1547
HPI: 71.08
Rank: 866
1965 - Present
HPI: 71.08
Rank: 867
1724 - 1763
HPI: 71.07
Rank: 868
1869 - 1945
HPI: 71.07
Rank: 869
1926 - 2013
HPI: 71.07
Rank: 870
1763 - 1828
HPI: 71.06
Rank: 871
1056 - 1106
HPI: 71.05
Rank: 872
1608 - 1650
HPI: 71.05
Rank: 873
Among people born in 1965, Waris Dirie ranks 11. Before her are Dmitry Medvedev, Charlie Sheen, Rodney King, Robert Downey Jr., Björk, and Gheorghe Hagi. After her are Brandon Lee, Shah Rukh Khan, Petro Poroshenko, Laurent Blanc, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Brooke Shields.
1965 - Present
HPI: 75.46
Rank: 5
1965 - Present
HPI: 72.08
Rank: 6
1965 - 2012
HPI: 72.03
Rank: 7
1965 - Present
HPI: 71.65
Rank: 8
1965 - Present
HPI: 71.21
Rank: 9
1965 - Present
HPI: 71.10
Rank: 10
1965 - Present
HPI: 71.08
Rank: 11
1965 - 1993
HPI: 70.82
Rank: 12
1965 - Present
HPI: 70.56
Rank: 13
1965 - Present
HPI: 70.15
Rank: 14
1965 - Present
HPI: 69.89
Rank: 15
1965 - Present
HPI: 69.86
Rank: 16
1965 - Present
HPI: 69.76
Rank: 17
Among people born in Somalia, Waris Dirie ranks 2 out of 39. Before her are Siad Barre (1919). After her are Mohamed Farrah Aidid (1934), Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi (1506), Hassan Gouled Aptidon (1916), Iman (1955), Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed (1934), Nur Hassan Hussein (1937), Aden Adde (1908), Ali Mahdi Muhammad (1939), Hassan Ali Khayre (1968), and Abdirashid Shermarke (1919).
1919 - 1995
HPI: 72.35
Rank: 1
1965 - Present
HPI: 71.08
Rank: 2
1934 - 1996
HPI: 70.79
Rank: 3
1506 - 1543
HPI: 68.02
Rank: 4
1916 - 2006
HPI: 67.54
Rank: 5
1955 - Present
HPI: 66.08
Rank: 6
1934 - 2012
HPI: 65.44
Rank: 7
1937 - 2020
HPI: 65.44
Rank: 8
1908 - 2007
HPI: 63.93
Rank: 9
1939 - Present
HPI: 63.17
Rank: 10
1968 - Present
HPI: 62.23
Rank: 11
1919 - 1969
HPI: 61.92
Rank: 12
Among writers born in Somalia, Waris Dirie ranks 1. After her are Mohammed Abdullah Hassan (1856) and Nuruddin Farah (1945).
1965 - Present
HPI: 71.08
Rank: 1
1856 - 1920
HPI: 61.89
Rank: 2
1945 - Present
HPI: 60.02
Rank: 3