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Malala Yousafzai

1997 - Today

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Malala Yousafzai (Urdu: ملالہ یوسفزئی; Pashto: ملاله یوسفزۍ, pronunciation: [məˈlaːlə jusəf ˈzəj]; born 12 July 1997) is a Pakistani female education activist, film and television producer, and the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize laureate at the age of 17. She is the youngest Nobel Prize laureate in history, the second Pakistani and the only Pashtun to receive a Nobel Prize. Yousafzai is a human rights advocate for the education of women and children in her native homeland, Swat, where the Pakistani Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. Her advocacy has grown into an international movement, and according to former Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, she has become Pakistan's "most prominent citizen." The daughter of education activist Ziauddin Yousafzai, she was born to a Yusufzai Pashtun family in Swat and was named after the Afghan folk heroine Malalai of Maiwand. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Malala Yousafzai is the 166th most popular social activist (up from 430th in 2019), the 36th most popular biography from Pakistan (up from 65th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Pakistani Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Malala Yousafzai ranks 166 out of 840. Before her are Hilda Gadea, Amal Clooney, David Lane, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Gangubai Kothewali, and Frederick Douglass. After her are Alexander Pechersky, Rigoberta Menchú, Leila Khaled, Meng Huo, Gaius Julius Civilis, and Gerda Christian.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1997, Malala Yousafzai ranks 3. Before her are Lisa, and Rosé. After her are Jungkook, Max Verstappen, Charles Leclerc, Alan Walker, Ousmane Dembélé, Camila Cabello, Chloë Grace Moretz, Alexander Zverev, and Naomi Osaka.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Malala Yousafzai ranks 36 out of 217. Before her are Asif Ali Zardari (1955), Kabir Bedi (1946), Ranjit Singh (1780), Har Gobind Khorana (1922), Khushal Khattak (1613), and Muhammad Khan Junejo (1932). After her are Reginald Dyer (1864), Bahlul Lodi (1406), Firuz Shah Tughlaq (1309), Imran Khan (1952), Guru Ram Das (1534), and Hafiz Saeed (1950).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Pakistan

Among social activists born in Pakistan, Malala Yousafzai ranks 3. Before her are Bacha Khan (1890), and Bhagat Singh (1907). After her are Guru Ram Das (1534), Asma Jahangir (1952), Iqbal Masih (1983), Mukhtar Mai (1972), and Jalila Haider (1988).

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