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Emmeline Pankhurst

1858 - 1928

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Emmeline Pankhurst (; née Goulden; 15 July 1858 – 14 June 1928) was a British political activist who organised the British suffragette movement and helped women to win in 1918 the right to vote in Great Britain and Ireland. In 1999, Time named her as one of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century, stating that "she shaped an idea of objects for our time" and "shook society into a new pattern from which there could be no going back". She was widely criticised for her militant tactics, and historians disagree about their effectiveness, but her work is recognised as a crucial element in achieving women's suffrage in the United Kingdom. Born in the Moss Side district of Manchester to politically active parents, Pankhurst was 16 when she was introduced to the women's suffrage movement. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Emmeline Pankhurst is the 50th most popular social activist (down from 41st in 2019), the 391st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 277th in 2019) and the 6th most popular British Social Activist.

Emmeline Pankhurst was a suffragette who fought for women's right to vote.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Emmeline Pankhurst ranks 50 out of 840. Before her are Olympe de Gouges, Bhagat Singh, Alfred Hermann Fried, Thomas Müntzer, Sophie Scholl, and Emma Goldman. After her are Sakamoto Ryōma, Pheidippides, Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī, Hassan al-Banna, Harriet Tubman, and Witold Pilecki.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1858, Emmeline Pankhurst ranks 14. Before her are Gustaf V of Sweden, Georg Simmel, Christiaan Eijkman, Jagadish Chandra Bose, Omar Mukhtar, and Giuseppe Peano. After her are Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Charles de Foucauld, Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Franz Boas, and Maria Christina of Austria. Among people deceased in 1928, Emmeline Pankhurst ranks 9. Before her are Hendrik Lorentz, Wilhelm Wien, Maria Feodorovna, Leoš Janáček, Max Scheler, and Édouard-Henri Avril. After her are Theodore William Richards, Johannes Fibiger, Franz Stuck, Wilhelm Karl, Duke of Urach, Pyotr Wrangel, and Alexander Bogdanov.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Emmeline Pankhurst ranks 391 out of 8,785. Before her are Clement Attlee (1883), Francis Galton (1822), Frederic Leighton (1830), David Prowse (1935), Graham Greene (1904), and Richard Henderson (1945). After her are M. Stanley Whittingham (1941), William Hogarth (1697), Alcuin (735), John Lydon (1956), John Constable (1776), and Ian Gillan (1945).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United Kingdom

Among social activists born in United Kingdom, Emmeline Pankhurst ranks 6. Before her are Nicholas Winton (1909), Betty Williams (1943), Guy Fawkes (1570), Robert Owen (1771), and Lady Godiva (990). After her are Mairead Maguire (1944), Thomas Cranmer (1489), Annie Besant (1847), Max Mosley (1940), Emily Davison (1872), and Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence (1867).

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