SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Henry Dunant

1828 - 1910

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Henry Dunant (born Jean-Henri Dunant; 8 May 1828 – 30 October 1910), also known as Henri Dunant, was a Swiss humanitarian, businessman, social activist, and co-founder of the Red Cross. His humanitarian efforts won him the first Nobel Peace Prize in 1901. Dunant was born in Geneva to a devout Calvinist family and had business interests in French Algeria and Tunisia. In 1859, while on his way to petition Napoleon III, he witnessed the aftermath of the Battle of Solferino in northern Italy. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Henry Dunant is the 10th most popular social activist (down from 8th in 2019), the 6th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 5th in 2019) and the most popular Swiss Social Activist.

Henry Dunant is most famous for founding the Red Cross.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Henry Dunant ranks 10 out of 840. Before him are Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, Malcolm X, Eleanor Roosevelt, Rosa Luxemburg, and Jan Hus. After him are Helen Keller, Aung San Suu Kyi, Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Claus von Stauffenberg, Bertha von Suttner, and Rosa Parks.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1828, Henry Dunant ranks 4. Before him are Leo Tolstoy, Jules Verne, and Henrik Ibsen. After him are Rani of Jhansi, Randal Cremer, Saigō Takamori, Charbel Makhlouf, Hippolyte Taine, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Nikolay Chernyshevsky, and Albert Marth. Among people deceased in 1910, Henry Dunant ranks 5. Before him are Leo Tolstoy, Edward VII, Mark Twain, and Robert Koch. After him are Florence Nightingale, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, William James, Henri Rousseau, Nadar, O. Henry, and Giovanni Schiaparelli.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Henry Dunant ranks 6 out of 1,015. Before him are Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712), Leonhard Euler (1707), Le Corbusier (1887), Carl Jung (1875), and Paracelsus (1493). After him are Jean Piaget (1896), Ferdinand de Saussure (1857), Jacob Bernoulli (1654), Huldrych Zwingli (1484), Sepp Blatter (1936), and Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Switzerland

Among social activists born in Switzerland, Henry Dunant ranks 1. After him are Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746), Jean-Paul Marat (1743), Élie Ducommun (1833), Jean Ziegler (1934), Gustave Moynier (1826), Hector Hodler (1887), Felix Manz (1498), and Bruno Manser (1954).

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