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SOCIAL ACTIVIST

William Howard Russell

1820 - 1907

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Sir William Howard Russell, (28 March 1827 – 10 February 1907) was an Irish reporter with The Times, and is considered to have been one of the first modern war correspondents. He spent 22 months covering the Crimean War, including the Siege of Sevastopol and the Charge of the Light Brigade. He later covered events during the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the American Civil War, the Austro-Prussian War, and the Franco-Prussian War. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Howard Russell has received more than 152,212 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). William Howard Russell is the 352nd most popular social activist (down from 258th in 2019), the 143rd most popular biography from Ireland (down from 104th in 2019) and the most popular Irish Social Activist.

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  • 21

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  • 4.81

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  • 2.58

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, William Howard Russell ranks 352 out of 538. Before him are Anatoly Marchenko, Lee Radziwill, Sultan al-Atrash, Toyohiko Kagawa, Natalya Estemirova, and Venetia Burney. After him are Deniz Gezmiş, Mary Dyer, Mary Toft, Dorothy Day, Jerry Rubin, and Claudette Colvin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1820, William Howard Russell ranks 50. Before him are Pōmare III, Cornelius Gurlitt, Arvid Posse, Mkrtich Khrimian, Alexander Serov, and Concepción Arenal. After him are Duke Eugen of Württemberg, Mariano Melgarejo, Ghevont Alishan, Lorenz Frølich, Josef Mánes, and Pierre Nord Alexis. Among people deceased in 1907, William Howard Russell ranks 57. Before him are Mkrtich Khrimian, Ludwig Thuille, Agathe Backer Grøndahl, Ernst von Bergmann, Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, and Maurice Loewy. After him are Giuseppe Saracco, Moritz Steinschneider, Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen, Ignaz Brüll, Charles Dancla, and Erik Gustaf Boström.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, William Howard Russell ranks 143 out of 501. Before him are Anne de Mortimer (1390), Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander (1909), Colm Meaney (1953), Brendan Behan (1923), Pat Cox (1952), and Ninette de Valois (1898). After him are Kathleen Lonsdale (1903), John Sealy Townsend (1868), Edward Sabine (1788), George Browne (1698), George Allman (1812), and George Abraham Grierson (1851).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Ireland

Among social activists born in Ireland, William Howard Russell ranks 1. After him are Mary Harris Jones (1837), Wolfe Tone (1763), Eoin O'Duffy (1890), Robert Emmet (1778), and William Smith O'Brien (1803).

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