SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Yagan

1800 - 1833

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Yagan (; c. 1795 – 11 July 1833) was an Aboriginal Australian warrior from the Noongar people. Yagan was pursued by the local authorities after he killed Erin Entwhistle, a servant of farmer Archibald Butler. It was an act of retaliation after Thomas Smedley, another of Butler's servants, shot at a group of Noongar people stealing potatoes and fowls, killing one of them. The government offered a bounty for Yagan's capture, dead or alive, and a young settler, William Keats, shot and killed him. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yagan is the 314th most popular social activist (up from 410th in 2019), the 102nd most popular biography from Australia (up from 130th in 2019) and the most popular Australian Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Yagan ranks 314 out of 840. Before him are Khudiram Bose, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Martin Guerre, Hanns Martin Schleyer, Kazimierz Świątek, and Mohamed Bouazizi. After him are Ashin Wirathu, Millicent Fawcett, Maria Altmann, Susannah Mushatt Jones, Maurice Bishop, and Greta Thunberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1800, Yagan ranks 41. Before him are Ekkathat, Charles Rogier, Jakob Lorber, Auguste von Harrach, Emil Aarestrup, and Carl Meissner. After him are Mihály Vörösmarty, Friedrich August Stüler, Josef Kriehuber, Yevgeny Baratynsky, Bernhard II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, and Jafar Khan. Among people deceased in 1833, Yagan ranks 28. Before him are Antoni Radziwiłł, Ferdinand Hérold, Rahel Varnhagen, Duke Alexander of Württemberg, Ivan Martinov, and Nannette Streicher. After him are Fausto Elhuyar, Gottlob Ernst Schulze, Gertrud Elisabeth Mara, Johann Friedrich Meckel, Banastre Tarleton, and William Thompson.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, Yagan ranks 102 out of 1,143. Before him are Elle Macpherson (1964), Andy Thomas (1951), George Pell (1941), Bobby Pearce (1905), Morris West (1916), and Jack Crawford (1908). After him are Edward Cassidy (1924), Judy Davis (1955), David Wenham (1965), David Warren (1925), Diane Cilento (1933), and Vernon Wells (1945).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Australia

Among social activists born in Australia, Yagan ranks 1. After him are Vida Goldstein (1869), Peter Tatchell (1952), and Edwina Tops-Alexander (1974).

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