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Yvonne Ridley

1958 - Today

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Yvonne Ridley (born 23 April 1958) is a British journalist, author and politician who holds several committee positions with the Alba Party in Scotland. She was a former chair of the National Council of the now-defunct Respect Party. Ridley made global headlines when she was captured by the Taliban in 2001 after the events of 9/11 and before the start of the U.S.-led war. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yvonne Ridley has received more than 633,091 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Yvonne Ridley is the 141st most popular journalist (down from 110th in 2019), the 6,295th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 5,391st in 2019) and the 18th most popular British Journalist.

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  • 630k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 38.00

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.28

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.71

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among JOURNALISTS

Among journalists, Yvonne Ridley ranks 141 out of 196. Before her are Anja Niedringhaus, Greg Burke, Louis Fischer, Olga Skabeyeva, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, and Anastasia Baburova. After her are Steven Sotloff, Khadija Ismayilova, Adrian Lamo, Zhanna Nemtsova, Halyna Hutchins, and Fatih Portakal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1958, Yvonne Ridley ranks 671. Before her are Sherri Martel, Bettine Jahn, Hisao Kuramata, Nikolay Fyodorov, Dieter Althaus, and Christopher Dean. After her are Armando Manzo, Ever Hernández, Christine Lieberknecht, Héctor Zelaya, Lenny Henry, and Sergei Mylnikov.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Yvonne Ridley ranks 6,295 out of 8,785. Before her are Andy Green (1962), Susannah Harker (1965), Jamie Redknapp (1973), Christopher Dean (1958), Leslie Thorne (1916), and Oliver Parker (1960). After her are Robert Lindsay (1949), Jason Hughes (1971), Emily Faithfull (1835), Esmé Bianco (1982), Joanne Froggatt (1980), and John Boyega (1992).

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Among JOURNALISTS In United Kingdom

Among journalists born in United Kingdom, Yvonne Ridley ranks 18. Before her are Malcolm Campbell (1885), Chris Bonington (1934), George Rodger (1908), Jill Dando (1961), Samantha Power (1970), and Martin Bashir (1963). After her are Jemima Goldsmith (1974), Katie Piper (1983), Eliot Higgins (1979), and Lauren Booth (1967).

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