SOCIAL ACTIVIST

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 392,358 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Yagan is the 409th most popular social activist (down from 397th in 2019), the 130th most popular biography from Australia (up from 142nd in 2019) and the most popular Australian Social Activist.

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  • 57.28

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.28

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Yagan ranks 409 out of 840. Before him are Amal Clooney, Marina Oswald Porter, Catharine MacKinnon, Mathew Brady, Borys Romanchenko, and Louise Bryant. After him are Muthulakshmi Reddy, Miroslav Tyrš, Mary Harris Jones, Mahmoud Taleghani, Shireen Abu Akleh, and Mary Edwards Walker.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1800, Yagan ranks 59. Before him are Ramón María Narváez, 1st Duke of Valencia, Johann Georg Wagler, Otto August Rosenberger, Sultan bin Ahmad, Joseph von Führich, and Mikhail Pogodin. After him are Said bin Ahmad, Franz Unger, Charles Antoine Lemaire, Martha Christina Tiahahu, John Phillips, and Osip Senkovsky. Among people deceased in 1833, Yagan ranks 31. Before him are Fausto Elhuyar, Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel, Gottlob Ernst Schulze, Banastre Tarleton, Ivan Martinov, and Johann Friedrich Meckel. After him are Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, Hannah More, William Thompson, Joshua Brookes, and Gertrud Elisabeth Mara.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, Yagan ranks 130 out of 1,143. Before him are Mark Webber (1976), John Flanagan (1944), John Farrow (1904), Evonne Goolagong Cawley (1951), John Williams (1941), and Raewyn Connell (1944). After him are Albert Namatjira (1902), William Jones (null), Russell Mulcahy (1953), Camila (null), James Wolfensohn (1933), and Bill Hayden (1933).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Australia

Among social activists born in Australia, Yagan ranks 1. After him are Vida Goldstein (1869), Peter Tatchell (1952), and Edwina Tops-Alexander (1974).

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