SOCIAL ACTIVIST

William Luther Pierce

1933 - 2002

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William Luther Pierce III (September 11, 1933 – July 23, 2002) was an American neo-Nazi, white supremacist, and far-right political activist. For more than 30 years, he was one of the highest-profile individuals of the white nationalist movement. A physicist by profession, he was author of the novels The Turner Diaries and Hunter under the pen name Andrew Macdonald. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Luther Pierce has received more than 1,919,490 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). William Luther Pierce is the 510th most popular social activist (down from 435th in 2019), the 7,329th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,565th in 2019) and the 69th most popular American Social Activist.

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  • 1.9M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.10

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.82

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.93

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, William Luther Pierce ranks 510 out of 840. Before him are Denis Goldberg, Nadia Murad, Daniel De Leon, Efua Dorkenoo, Medha Patkar, and Hebe de Bonafini. After him are Helene Stöcker, Gunnar Sønsteby, Jerry Rubin, Ivan Betskoy, Yun Hyon-seok, and Devdas Gandhi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, William Luther Pierce ranks 375. Before him are Denis Goldberg, Robert Goulet, Annie Easley, Celso Torrelio, Luka Lipošinović, and Norbert Eschmann. After him are Antón García Abril, Anatoly Krutikov, Peter Härtling, Alberto Natusch, Maigonis Valdmanis, and Feridun Buğeker. Among people deceased in 2002, William Luther Pierce ranks 240. Before him are Hernán Gaviria, Neal E. Miller, David Todd Wilkinson, Alexander Kazantsev, Astrid Henning-Jensen, and Harold Russell. After him are Gregorio Fuentes, Lance Macklin, Čestmír Vycpálek, Hans-Peter Tschudi, Mustafa Mansour, and Albrecht Becker.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, William Luther Pierce ranks 7,329 out of 20,380. Before him are Louella Parsons (1881), Edward Burns (1968), John Hinckley Jr. (1955), Alan Oppenheimer (1930), Pete Docter (1968), and Walter M. Miller Jr. (1923). After him are James Smith McDonnell (1899), Lili Taylor (1967), James Spriggs Payne (1819), Harry Lennix (1964), Theodore Roberts (1861), and Wallace Reid (1891).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, William Luther Pierce ranks 69. Before him are Medgar Evers (1925), Phyllis Schlafly (1924), Mumia Abu-Jamal (1954), Fred Hampton (1948), Pretty Boy Floyd (1904), and Dorothea Dix (1802). After him are Jerry Rubin (1938), Lucy Parsons (1853), Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin (1842), Ruby Bridges (1954), Martin Luther King Sr. (1899), and Abraham Flexner (1866).

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