SOCIAL ACTIVIST

William Lloyd Garrison

1805 - 1879

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William Lloyd Garrison (December 10, 1805 – May 24, 1879) was an American abolitionist, journalist, social reformer and antisemite. He is best known for his widely read anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator, which Garrison founded in 1831 and published in Boston until slavery in the United States was abolished by the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865. Garrison promoted "no-governmentism" and rejected the inherent validity of the American government on the basis that its engagement in war, imperialism, and slavery made it corrupt and tyrannical. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Lloyd Garrison has received more than 2,009,684 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). William Lloyd Garrison is the 447th most popular social activist (down from 404th in 2019), the 5,647th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,673rd in 2019) and the 61st most popular American Social Activist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.62

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.97

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.79

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year William Lloyd Garrison has had the most page views in the with 188,750 views, followed by French (6,753), and Spanish (4,952). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Esperanto (117.03%), Simple English (94.02%), and Indonesian (68.06%)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, William Lloyd Garrison ranks 447 out of 840. Before him are Romas Kalanta, Grace Sherwood, Lee Radziwill, Estela de Carlotto, Donald Watson, and Henriette Herz. After him are Gotō Shōjirō, Sophie Liebknecht, Olga Lepeshinskaya, Hamida Javanshir, Tuvia Bielski, and Mohammad Ali Jauhar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1805, William Lloyd Garrison ranks 55. Before him are Manuel García, Infanta Maria da Assunção of Braganza, Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann, Johann Eduard Erdmann, Mary Seacole, and Esteban Echeverría. After him are Johann von Lamont, Victor Baltard, Karl Ferdinand Sohn, Georg Gottfried Gervinus, Hugo von Mohl, and Josef Danhauser. Among people deceased in 1879, William Lloyd Garrison ranks 47. Before him are Aleksandr Baryatinsky, Joseph Hooker, Peter Michal Bohúň, Immanuel Hermann Fichte, Lyuben Karavelov, and Rowland Hill. After him are Johann von Lamont, William Froude, Marguerite Bays, Édouard Spach, Jakob Stämpfli, and Peter Arnold Heise.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, William Lloyd Garrison ranks 5,647 out of 20,380. Before him are Jennifer Welles (1937), Robert Darnton (1939), Jessie Royce Landis (1896), Marilyn Burns (1949), Mitchell Leisen (1898), and Bob Gale (1951). After him are Country Joe McDonald (1942), James Blish (1921), Axeman of New Orleans (null), J. William Fulbright (1905), Milton Berle (1908), and Rube Goldberg (1883).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, William Lloyd Garrison ranks 61. Before him are Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826), Lester R. Brown (1934), Anna Louise Strong (1885), Cesar Chavez (1927), Grace Sherwood (1660), and Lee Radziwill (1933). After him are Lucy Stone (1818), Medgar Evers (1925), Phyllis Schlafly (1924), Mumia Abu-Jamal (1954), Fred Hampton (1948), and Pretty Boy Floyd (1904).

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