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Betty Williams

1943 - 2020

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Elizabeth Williams (née Smyth; 22 May 1943 – 17 March 2020) was a peace activist from Northern Ireland. She was a co-recipient with Mairead Corrigan of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976 for her work as a cofounder of Community of Peace People, an organisation dedicated to promoting a peaceful resolution to the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Williams headed the Global Children's Foundation and was the President of the World Centre of Compassion for Children International. She was also the Chair of Institute for Asian Democracy in Washington D.C. She lectured widely on topics of peace, education, inter-cultural and inter-faith understanding, anti-extremism, and children's rights. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Betty Williams is the 22nd most popular social activist (up from 89th in 2019), the 182nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 547th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular British Social Activist.

Betty Williams is most famous for being a co-founder of the Northern Ireland Peace Movement, which was responsible for the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Betty Williams ranks 22 out of 840. Before her are Rosa Parks, Nicholas Winton, Jean-Paul Marat, Gustav I of Sweden, Mary Harris Jones, and Peter Kropotkin. After her are W. E. B. Du Bois, Élie Ducommun, Sophia of Prussia, Emily Greene Balch, Guy Fawkes, and Robert Owen.

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Among people born in 1943, Betty Williams ranks 10. Before her are Lech Wałęsa, Jim Morrison, Julio Iglesias, Catherine Deneuve, Bobby Fischer, and Queen Silvia of Sweden. After her are George Harrison, Vangelis, Mick Jagger, Toto Cutugno, Sharon Tate, and Michael Mann. Among people deceased in 2020, Betty Williams ranks 7. Before her are Diego Maradona, Hosni Mubarak, Ennio Morricone, Sean Connery, Philip Warren Anderson, and Kirk Douglas. After her are Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Qaboos bin Said al Said, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Pierre Cardin, Max von Sydow, and Tabaré Vázquez.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Betty Williams ranks 182 out of 8,785. Before her are Philip Noel-Baker (1889), Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia (1596), Aldous Huxley (1894), Robert Brown (1773), Mary Boleyn (1499), and Henry Purcell (1659). After her are Elton John (1947), Robert Clive (1725), Bon Scott (1946), Terry Pratchett (1948), Alan Hodgkin (1914), and Alexander R. Todd (1907).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United Kingdom

Among social activists born in United Kingdom, Betty Williams ranks 2. Before her are Nicholas Winton (1909). After her are Guy Fawkes (1570), Robert Owen (1771), Lady Godiva (990), Emmeline Pankhurst (1858), Mairead Maguire (1944), Thomas Cranmer (1489), Annie Besant (1847), Max Mosley (1940), Emily Davison (1872), and Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence (1867).

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