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Amal Clooney

1978 - Today

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Amal Clooney (née Alamuddin; born (1978-02-03)3 February 1978) is a British international human rights lawyer. She has represented several high-profile clients, including former Maldivian president Mohamed Nasheed, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, Yazidi human rights activist Nadia Murad, Filipino-American journalist Maria Ressa, Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismayilova, and Egyptian-Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy. She is an adjunct law professor at Columbia Law School and a Visiting Professor of Practice at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford. In 2016, she and her husband, American actor George Clooney, co-founded the Clooney Foundation for Justice. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Amal Clooney is the 161st most popular social activist (up from 404th in 2019), the 25th most popular biography from Lebanon (up from 95th in 2019) and the most popular Lebanese Social Activist.

Amal Clooney is most famous for her accomplished career as an international human rights lawyer, representing high-profile clients and working on major cases involving human rights violations, freedom of expression, and international law before bodies like the International Criminal Court and European Court of Human Rights.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Amal Clooney ranks 161 out of 840Before her are Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, Judas of Galilee, Soh Jaipil, Musa al-Sadr, Abimael Guzmán, and Hilda Gadea. After her are David Lane, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Gangubai Kothewali, Frederick Douglass, Malala Yousafzai, and Alexander Pechersky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1978, Amal Clooney ranks 8Before her are Gianluigi Buffon, Zoe Saldaña, Miroslav Klose, Didier Drogba, Usher, and Carles Puyol. After her are Gennaro Gattuso, Kobe Bryant, Olena Zelenska, Charlene, Princess of Monaco, Michelle Rodriguez, and Ashton Kutcher.

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In Lebanon

Among people born in Lebanon, Amal Clooney ranks 25 out of 145Before her are Eusebius of Nicomedia (280), Najib Mikati (1955), Bachir Gemayel (1947), Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir (1073), Rashid Rida (1865), and Frumentius (400). After her are Michel Suleiman (1948), Bechara Boutros al-Rahi (1940), Maria of Montferrat (1192), Kamal Jumblatt (1917), Delphine Seyrig (1932), and Nimatullah Kassab (1808).

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Lebanon

Among social activists born in Lebanon, Amal Clooney ranks 1