1800 - 1833
Yagan (; c. 1795 – 11 July 1833) was an Aboriginal Australian warrior from the Noongar people. Yagan was pursued by the local authorities after he killed Erin Entwhistle, a servant of farmer Archibald Butler. It was an act of retaliation after Thomas Smedley, another of Butler's servants, shot at a group of Noongar people stealing potatoes and fowls, killing one of them. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yagan has received more than 367,591 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Yagan is the 397th most popular social activist (down from 332nd in 2019), the 142nd most popular biography from Australia (down from 123rd in 2019) and the most popular Australian Social Activist.
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Among social activists, Yagan ranks 397 out of 538. Before him are Hamida Javanshir, Fred Hampton, Meena Keshwar Kamal, Malalai of Maiwand, Rajendra K. Pachauri, and Amal Clooney. After him are John Peters Humphrey, Miroslav Tyrš, Christine Delphy, Anna Louise Strong, Pjetër Arbnori, and Afeni Shakur.
1873 - 1955
HPI: 48.67
Rank: 391
1948 - 1969
HPI: 48.64
Rank: 392
1956 - 1987
HPI: 48.58
Rank: 393
1861 - 1861
HPI: 48.48
Rank: 394
1940 - 2020
HPI: 48.46
Rank: 395
1978 - Present
HPI: 48.45
Rank: 396
1800 - 1833
HPI: 48.42
Rank: 397
1905 - 1995
HPI: 48.37
Rank: 398
1832 - 1884
HPI: 48.37
Rank: 399
1941 - Present
HPI: 48.17
Rank: 400
1885 - 1970
HPI: 48.13
Rank: 401
1935 - 2006
HPI: 48.13
Rank: 402
1947 - 2016
HPI: 48.12
Rank: 403
Among people born in 1800, Yagan ranks 54. Before him are Achille Devéria, Jafar Khan, John Phillips, Mikhail Pogodin, Osip Senkovsky, and Ayub Shah Durrani. After him are Franz Unger, Kitsos Tzavelas, Roberto de Visiani, Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant, Sayed Morad Khan, and Heinrich Göppert. Among people deceased in 1833, Yagan ranks 31. Before him are Banastre Tarleton, Nannette Streicher, Johann Friedrich Meckel, Fausto Elhuyar, Ivan Martinov, and Gottlob Ernst Schulze. After him are William Thompson, Gertrud Elisabeth Mara, Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Joshua Brookes, and Oliver Wolcott Jr..
1800 - 1857
HPI: 50.05
Rank: 48
1800 - 1789
HPI: 49.78
Rank: 49
1800 - 1874
HPI: 49.45
Rank: 50
1800 - 1875
HPI: 48.87
Rank: 51
1800 - 1858
HPI: 48.73
Rank: 52
1800 - 1837
HPI: 48.50
Rank: 53
1800 - 1833
HPI: 48.42
Rank: 54
1800 - 1870
HPI: 48.27
Rank: 55
1800 - 1865
HPI: 48.26
Rank: 56
1800 - 1878
HPI: 48.18
Rank: 57
1800 - 1872
HPI: 47.73
Rank: 58
1800 - 1789
HPI: 47.62
Rank: 59
1800 - 1884
HPI: 47.52
Rank: 60
1754 - 1833
HPI: 50.55
Rank: 25
1769 - 1833
HPI: 50.17
Rank: 26
1781 - 1833
HPI: 49.80
Rank: 27
1755 - 1833
HPI: 49.50
Rank: 28
1771 - 1833
HPI: 48.77
Rank: 29
1761 - 1833
HPI: 48.53
Rank: 30
1800 - 1833
HPI: 48.42
Rank: 31
1775 - 1833
HPI: 47.77
Rank: 32
1749 - 1833
HPI: 46.99
Rank: 33
1757 - 1833
HPI: 46.03
Rank: 34
1757 - 1833
HPI: 45.21
Rank: 35
1761 - 1833
HPI: 42.94
Rank: 36
1760 - 1833
HPI: 40.52
Rank: 37
Among people born in Australia, Yagan ranks 142 out of 925. Before him are Richard Roxburgh (1962), Mae Busch (1891), Gough Whitlam (1916), Jacki Weaver (1947), Miranda Kerr (1983), and Albert Namatjira (1902). After him are Ben Mendelsohn (1969), James Wolfensohn (1933), Abbie Cornish (1982), Tim Schenken (1943), Rick Springfield (1949), and Lew Hoad (1934).
1962 - Present
HPI: 48.61
Rank: 136
1891 - 1946
HPI: 48.58
Rank: 137
1916 - 2014
HPI: 48.56
Rank: 138
1947 - Present
HPI: 48.55
Rank: 139
1983 - Present
HPI: 48.47
Rank: 140
1902 - 1959
HPI: 48.45
Rank: 141
1800 - 1833
HPI: 48.42
Rank: 142
1969 - Present
HPI: 48.36
Rank: 143
1933 - 2020
HPI: 48.29
Rank: 144
1982 - Present
HPI: 48.28
Rank: 145
1943 - Present
HPI: 48.28
Rank: 146
1949 - Present
HPI: 48.20
Rank: 147
1934 - 1994
HPI: 48.17
Rank: 148
Among social activists born in Australia, Yagan ranks 1. After him are Peter Tatchell (1952).