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Yagan

1800 - 1833

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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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  • 370k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.42

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.46

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.25

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Yagan ranks 397 out of 538Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1800, Yagan ranks 54Before 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 31Before 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..

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, Yagan ranks 142 out of 925Before 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).

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Australia

Among social activists born in Australia, Yagan ranks 1After him are Peter Tatchell (1952).