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Mirabehn

1892 - 1982

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Madeleine Slade (22 November 1892 – 20 July 1982), also known as Mirabehn or Meera Behn, was a British supporter of the Indian Independence Movement who in the 1920s left her home in England to live and work with Mahatma Gandhi. She devoted her life to human development and the advancement of Gandhi's principles. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mirabehn is the 464th most popular social activist (up from 655th in 2019), the 3,497th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 5,769th in 2019) and the 28th most popular British Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Mirabehn ranks 464 out of 840Before her are Iosif Grigulevich, Petro Grigorenko, Giuseppe Pinelli, Gotō Shōjirō, Eugene V. Debs, and Irom Chanu Sharmila. After her are Saalumarada Thimmakka, Pjetër Arbnori, Surya Sen, Mary Edwards Walker, Nazik al-Abid, and Hereward the Wake.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, Mirabehn ranks 218Before her are Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh, Mieczysław Horszowski, Ronald Rawson, Guido Boni, Milena Rudnytska, and Stanisław Ostrowski. After her are Ludwig Berger, Fedir Bohatyrchuk, Vilmos Apor, Valerio Arri, Grigory Shajn, and Anders Larsson. Among people deceased in 1982, Mirabehn ranks 181Before her are Bernhard Rogge, Eino Penttilä, Hans Mock, Josef Bradl, J. B. Kripalani, and Stanisław Ostrowski. After her are Marie Rambert, Renzo Rossellini, Marie Braun, Palden Thondup Namgyal, Ngaio Marsh, and Jimmy McGrory.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Mirabehn ranks 3,498 out of 8,785Before her are Pybba of Mercia (570), David Murray (1909), Samuel Baker (1821), Mary F. Lyon (1925), George Abecassis (1913), and Cliff Allison (1932). After her are Reg Parnell (1911), Edmund Purdom (1926), Fred Yates (1884), Roger Rees (1944), Frederick W. Lanchester (1868), and Henry Edward Manning (1808).

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United Kingdom

Among social activists born in United Kingdom, Mirabehn ranks 28Before her are Venetia Burney (1918), Josephine Butler (1828), Sylvia Pankhurst (1882), Charles Boycott (1832), Robert Catesby (1573), and James Guillaume (1844). After her are Hereward the Wake (1035), Donald Watson (1910), Mary Toft (1703), Jack Sheppard (1702), Annie Kenney (1879), and Abdalqadir as-Sufi (1930).