SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Nicholas Winton

1909 - 2015

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Sir Nicholas George Winton (né Wertheim; 19 May 1909 – 1 July 2015) was a British stockbroker and humanitarian who helped to rescue refugee children, mostly Jewish, whose families had fled persecution by Nazi Germany. Born to German-Jewish parents who had immigrated to Britain at the beginning of the 20th century, Winton assisted in the rescue of 669 children from Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nicholas Winton is the 17th most popular social activist, the 145th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 91st in 2019) and the most popular British Social Activist.

Nicholas Winton was a British humanitarian who organized the rescue of 669 children, most of them Jewish, from Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Nicholas Winton ranks 17 out of 840. Before him are Helen Keller, Aung San Suu Kyi, Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Claus von Stauffenberg, Bertha von Suttner, and Rosa Parks. After him are Jean-Paul Marat, Gustav I of Sweden, Mary Harris Jones, Peter Kropotkin, Betty Williams, and W. E. B. Du Bois.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Nicholas Winton ranks 3. Before him are Stepan Bandera, and Eugène Ionesco. After him are Juliana of the Netherlands, Simone Weil, Osamu Dazai, James Mason, Edward Tatum, Mohammed Daoud Khan, U Thant, Francis Bacon, and Andrei Gromyko. Among people deceased in 2015, Nicholas Winton ranks 10. Before him are A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, Charles H. Townes, Günter Grass, Lemmy, Christopher Lee, and Tomas Tranströmer. After him are Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, Demis Roussos, Terry Pratchett, Omar Sharif, Kim Young-sam, and Helmut Schmidt.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Nicholas Winton ranks 145 out of 8,785. Before him are Catherine Parr (1512), Macbeth, King of Scotland (1005), Henry Morgan (1635), Rosalind Franklin (1920), Brian Josephson (1940), and Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom (1857). After him are Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806), William Ramsay (1852), J. M. W. Turner (1775), Robert Louis Stevenson (1850), Walter Scott (1771), and Alan Rickman (1946).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United Kingdom

Among social activists born in United Kingdom, Nicholas Winton ranks 1. After him are Betty Williams (1943), Guy Fawkes (1570), Robert Owen (1771), Lady Godiva (990), Emmeline Pankhurst (1858), Mairead Maguire (1944), Thomas Cranmer (1489), Annie Besant (1847), Max Mosley (1940), Emily Davison (1872), and Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence (1867).

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