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Julian Assange

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Julian Paul Assange ( ə-SAHNZH; né Hawkins; born 3 July 1971) is an Australian editor, publisher, and activist who founded WikiLeaks in 2006. He came to international attention in 2010 after WikiLeaks published a series of leaks from Chelsea Manning, a United States Army intelligence analyst: footage of a U.S. airstrike in Baghdad showing probable war crimes committed by the US army, U.S. military logs from the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, and U.S. diplomatic cables. Assange has won over two dozen awards for publishing and human rights activism. Assange was raised in various places around Australia until his family settled in Melbourne in his middle teens. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Julian Assange is the 16th most popular journalist (down from 11th in 2019), the 43rd most popular biography from Australia (down from 17th in 2019) and the most popular Australian Journalist.

Julian Assange is most famous for being the founder of WikiLeaks, a website that publishes classified information.

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Among JOURNALISTS

Among journalists, Julian Assange ranks 16 out of 196. Before him are Anna Politkovskaya, Dorothea Lange, W. T. Stead, Jean-Marie Balestre, John Reed, and Beate Klarsfeld. After him are David Seymour, Victor Noir, Robert Guérin, Gareth Jones, W. Eugene Smith, and Alexander Berkman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1971, Julian Assange ranks 20. Before him are Mark Wahlberg, Jeremy Renner, Vitali Klitschko, Jonathan Ke Quan, Idina Menzel, and Sean Baker. After him are Niko Kovač, Elif Shafak, Ricky Martin, Snoop Dogg, Ma Dong-seok, and Jari Litmanen.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, Julian Assange ranks 43 out of 1,143. Before him are Steve Irwin (1962), Johnny Logan (1954), Margot Robbie (1990), Kylie Minogue (1968), Joan Sutherland (1926), and P. L. Travers (1899). After him are Sidney Nolan (1917), Lionel Logue (1880), James Clavell (1921), Mark Webber (1976), Annette Kellermann (1887), and Ned Kelly (1855).

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Among JOURNALISTS In Australia

Among journalists born in Australia, Julian Assange ranks 1. After him are Liu Xiaoqian (1988).

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