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Mary Edwards Walker

1832 - 1919

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Mary Edwards Walker (November 26, 1832 – February 21, 1919), commonly referred to as Dr. Mary Walker, was an American abolitionist, prohibitionist, prisoner of war in the American Civil War, and surgeon. She is the only woman to receive the Medal of Honor. In 1855, she earned her medical degree at Syracuse Medical College in New York, married and started a medical practice. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mary Edwards Walker is the 468th most popular social activist (down from 416th in 2019), the 6,689th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,155th in 2019) and the 64th most popular American Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Mary Edwards Walker ranks 468 out of 840. Before her are Eugene V. Debs, Irom Chanu Sharmila, Mirabehn, Saalumarada Thimmakka, Pjetër Arbnori, and Surya Sen. After her are Nazik al-Abid, Hereward the Wake, William Lloyd Garrison, Rajendra K. Pachauri, Donald Watson, and Ahmed Lutfi el-Sayed.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1832, Mary Edwards Walker ranks 78. Before her are Mary Ann Cotton, Sergey Botkin, Léon Gautier, Victor Meirelles, Carl Neumann, and Luigi Jacobini. After her are Zsófia Torma, Eugenio Montero Ríos, William Thomas Blanford, Marcelo Azcárraga Palmero, Juan Montalvo, and Kolos Ferenc Vaszary. Among people deceased in 1919, Mary Edwards Walker ranks 124. Before her are Melchora Aquino, Charles Conrad Abbott, Oleksandr Murashko, Nikolay Shchors, Paul von Jankó, and Ramón Barros Luco. After her are Napoleon Cybulski, Nikolai Iudovich Ivanov, Géza Csáth, Walter Brack, Hedwig Dohm, and Elia Millosevich.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mary Edwards Walker ranks 6,691 out of 20,380. Before her are Renée Elise Goldsberry (1971), Wilfred Jackson (1906), Beulah Bondi (1889), AJ Lee (1987), Elvin Hayes (1945), and David Amram (1930). After her are Tony Accardo (1906), Betty Compson (1897), Maya Hawke (1998), Ethel Catherwood (1908), Mona Simpson (1957), and Marian Seldes (1928).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Mary Edwards Walker ranks 64. Before her are Otto Warmbier (1994), Anna Louise Strong (1885), Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826), Phyllis Schlafly (1924), Mary McLeod Bethune (1875), and Eugene V. Debs (1855). After her are William Lloyd Garrison (1805), Pretty Boy Floyd (1904), Tarana Burke (1973), Sam Childers (1963), Assata Shakur (1947), and Medgar Evers (1925).

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