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Mairead Maguire

1944 - Today

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Mairead Maguire (born 27 January 1944), also known as Mairead Corrigan Maguire and formerly as Mairéad Corrigan, is a peace activist from Northern Ireland. She co-founded, with Betty Williams and Ciaran McKeown, the Women for Peace, which later became the Community for Peace People, an organization dedicated to encouraging a peaceful resolution of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Maguire and Williams were awarded the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mairead Maguire is the 99th most popular social activist (up from 136th in 2019), the 721st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 829th in 2019) and the 7th most popular British Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Mairead Maguire ranks 99 out of 840. Before her are An Jung-geun, Amílcar Cabral, Stenka Razin, Denis Mukwege, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, and Errico Malatesta. After her are Frank Costello, Gabrielle d'Estrées, Léon Jouhaux, Lee Radziwill, Louise Michel, and Augusto César Sandino.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Mairead Maguire ranks 65. Before her are Gennady Zyuganov, Rajiv Gandhi, Abdul Hamid, Harold Ramis, Sondra Locke, and Gérard Mourou. After her are Bernhard Schlink, John Rhys-Davies, Thein Sein, Princess Benedikte of Denmark, Serge Haroche, and Antonio Damasio.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Mairead Maguire ranks 721 out of 8,785. Before her are G. E. Moore (1873), Henry the Young King (1155), James III of Scotland (1451), Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom (1770), Neil Kinnock (1942), and Cædwalla of Wessex (659). After her are Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley (1508), John Rhys-Davies (1944), Philippa of Lancaster (1360), Antony Hewish (1924), Albert Finney (1936), and Geoffrey Hinton (1947).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United Kingdom

Among social activists born in United Kingdom, Mairead Maguire ranks 7. Before her are Nicholas Winton (1909), Betty Williams (1943), Guy Fawkes (1570), Robert Owen (1771), Lady Godiva (990), and Emmeline Pankhurst (1858). After her are Thomas Cranmer (1489), Annie Besant (1847), Max Mosley (1940), Emily Davison (1872), Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence (1867), and Christabel Pankhurst (1880).

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