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Marcus Garvey

1887 - 1940

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Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. (17 August 1887 – 10 June 1940) was a Jamaican political activist. He was the founder and first President-General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL) (commonly known as UNIA), through which he declared himself Provisional President of Africa. Garvey was ideologically a black nationalist and Pan-Africanist. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Marcus Garvey is the 1,460th most popular writer (down from 1,309th in 2019), the 11th most popular biography from Jamaica (down from 6th in 2019) and the most popular Jamaican Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Marcus Garvey ranks 1,460 out of 7,302. Before him are Magda Szabó, J. G. Ballard, Evelyn Waugh, Viktor Suvorov, Lee Child, and Naim Frashëri. After him are Sadegh Hedayat, César Vallejo, Phrynichus, Ernst Hanfstaengl, J. Michael Straczynski, and Albert of Aix.

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Among people born in 1887, Marcus Garvey ranks 73. Before him are Joseph Bech, Savielly Tartakower, Sivananda Saraswati, James Paul Moody, Hermine Reuss of Greiz, and Conrad Hilton. After him are Paul Wittgenstein, Ernst Hanfstaengl, Tetsu Katayama, Hugo Steinhaus, Raoul Walsh, and Simko Shikak. Among people deceased in 1940, Marcus Garvey ranks 36. After him are Saionji Kinmochi, Gunnar Asplund, Princess Maria of Greece and Denmark, Prince Jean, Duke of Guise, Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev, Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark, Fusajiro Yamauchi, Frederick Cook, Albin Lermusiaux, Édouard Claparède, Paul Nizan, and Walter Chrysler.

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In Jamaica

Among people born in Jamaica, Marcus Garvey ranks 11 out of 189. Before him are Ben Johnson (1961), Usain Bolt (1986), Patrick Allen (1951), Max Romeo (1944), Peter Tosh (1944), and Jimmy Cliff (1948). After him are Violet Brown (1900), Stuart Hall (1932), Liz Mitchell (1952), Lee "Scratch" Perry (1936), Trevor Berbick (1954), and Madge Sinclair (1938).

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Among WRITERS In Jamaica

Among writers born in Jamaica, Marcus Garvey ranks 1. After him are Mary Seacole (1805), Leonard Howell (1898), Claude McKay (1889), Louise Bennett-Coverley (1919), Linton Kwesi Johnson (1952), Nalo Hopkinson (1960), Marlon James (1970), and Claudia Rankine (1963).

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