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The activists who move the conversation, measured by the reach of their cause rather than a verdict on it. 897 tracked, ranked on measured visibility — search interest, encyclopedic footprint, press, and social audience — not opinion, and rebuilt daily.

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#	Δ	Person	Country	Category	Fame	Momentum
#1	—	Joi Ito	United States	Activists	72.5	5.7
#2	—	Nadia Murad	—	Activists	69.8	16.4
#3	—	Chelsea Manning	United States	Activists	69.0	0.0
#4	—	Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall	United Kingdom	Activists	66.9	3.3
#5	—	Darya Navalnaya	—	Activists	65.8	11.6
#6	—	EN Eko Noguchi	Japan	Activists	63.9	15.0
#7	—	Vee Kativhu	—	Activists	63.8	0.0
#8	—	Tank Man	China	Activists	63.5	6.7
#9	—	Virginia McLaurin	United States	Activists	62.8	25.0
#10	—	Rani of Jhansi	India	Activists	62.5	21.0
#11	—	Ashley Biden	United States	Activists	62.1	10.0
#12	—	María Galindo	—	Activists	61.8	0.4
#13	—	Thích Quảng Đức	—	Activists	60.6	2.8
#14	—	Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld	Germany	Activists	60.6	11.8
#15	—	Lady Godiva	—	Activists	59.9	1.9
#16	—	Sophie Scholl	Germany	Activists	59.9	0.0
#17	—	VR Virginia Roberts Giuffre	Australia	Activists	59.6	0.0
#18	—	Afeni Shakur	United States	Activists	59.2	4.3
#19	—	Terry Fox	Canada	Activists	59.0	2.3
#20	—	Mordechai Vanunu	Israel	Activists	58.9	15.0
#21	—	Kasturba Gandhi	India	Activists	58.5	9.8
#22	—	Kim Hyong-jik	—	Activists	58.5	17.2
#23	—	Simon bar Kokhba	—	Activists	58.2	10.0
#24	—	Irena Sendler	—	Activists	58.2	0.0
#25	—	Sophia of Prussia	Germany	Activists	58.1	4.6
#26	—	Fred Hampton	United States	Activists	57.9	0.0
#27	—	Betty Williams	United Kingdom	Activists	57.9	0.0
#28	—	Dred Scott	United States	Activists	57.8	15.3
#29	—	Hector Pieterson	South Africa	Activists	57.7	10.0
#30	—	Franca Viola	Italy	Activists	57.5	3.0
#31	—	Charlotte Corday	France	Activists	57.3	0.0
#32	—	Margaret Sanger	United States	Activists	57.3	0.0
#33	—	SA Shamsa Araweelo	United Kingdom	Activists	57.1	0.0
#34	—	Omar Mukhtar	—	Activists	57.0	0.3
#35	—	Daphne Caruana Galizia	—	Activists	56.6	2.1
#36	—	Salwan Momika	—	Activists	56.5	2.7
#37	—	Paul Watson	Canada	Activists	56.5	0.0
#38	—	Elizabeth Gurley Flynn	United States	Activists	56.4	6.6
#39	—	Saul Alinsky	United States	Activists	56.4	4.1
#40	—	Sadako Sasaki	Japan	Activists	56.3	0.4
#41	—	JV Juthavachara Vivacharawongse	—	Activists	56.1	25.0
#42	—	Aya Chebbi	—	Activists	56.1	15.0
#43	—	Jan Palach	—	Activists	56.0	0.0
#44	—	Lucie Castets	France	Activists	55.9	15.0
#45	—	Dolores Huerta	United States	Activists	55.9	0.0
#46	—	Zilda Arns	Brazil	Activists	55.8	16.1
#47	—	Lord Nicholas Windsor	United Kingdom	Activists	55.4	16.4
#48	—	Otoya Yamaguchi	Japan	Activists	55.3	0.0
#49	—	Fernando Savater	Spain	Activists	55.2	2.5
#50	—	Denis Nikitin	—	Activists	55.2	0.0
#51	—	Errico Malatesta	Italy	Activists	54.9	0.4
#52	—	Ola Bini	Sweden	Activists	54.5	0.0
#53	—	Julia Nicol	South Africa	Activists	54.4	10.0
#54	—	Rahel Azaria	Israel	Activists	54.3	21.2
#55	—	Salvador Puig Antich	Spain	Activists	54.2	0.0
#56	—	Loujain al-Hathloul	—	Activists	54.1	0.0
#57	—	Amy Carter	United States	Activists	54.1	4.3
#58	—	Juhayman al-Otaybi	—	Activists	53.8	0.2
#59	—	Jim Sinclair	United States	Activists	53.7	10.0
#60	—	Piergiorgio Welby	Italy	Activists	53.7	10.0
#61	—	Ella Josephine Baker	United States	Activists	53.7	0.0
#62	—	Cori Bush	United States	Activists	53.7	0.4
#63	—	Yael Cohen Braun	Canada	Activists	53.6	0.0
#64	—	Sahar Khodayari	—	Activists	53.6	25.0
#65	—	Josephine Butler	United Kingdom	Activists	53.4	0.6
#66	—	Hebe de Bonafini	Argentina	Activists	53.3	6.4
#67	—	Anthony Hamilton	United Kingdom	Activists	53.3	6.8
#68	—	Grace Tame	Australia	Activists	53.1	10.0
#69	—	Viola Desmond	Canada	Activists	53.1	0.4
#70	—	Begum Hazrat Mahal	—	Activists	52.9	0.6
#71	—	Aliaa Magda Elmahdy	Egypt	Activists	52.8	2.5
#72	—	RG Rumeysa Gelgi	Turkey	Activists	52.8	2.3
#73	—	ME María Elena Moyano	—	Activists	52.8	15.9
#74	—	Alicia Garza	United States	Activists	52.8	0.0
#75	—	Laxmi Agarwal	India	Activists	52.7	0.0
#76	—	CC Charlene Carruthers	United States	Activists	52.7	12.4
#77	—	Joan Trumpauer Mulholland	United States	Activists	52.7	6.2
#78	—	Aminatou Haidar	—	Activists	52.7	2.4
#79	—	Doris Stevens	United States	Activists	52.5	5.2
#80	—	Ravachol	France	Activists	52.5	0.0
#81	—	Ingrid Newkirk	United Kingdom	Activists	52.5	0.0
#82	—	Jul' Maroh	France	Activists	52.4	5.1
#83	—	MG Mari Gilbert	United States	Activists	52.3	15.1
#84	—	Yuri Kochiyama	United States	Activists	52.3	5.5
#85	—	Assa Traoré	France	Activists	52.2	10.0
#86	—	Joaquin Murrieta	Mexico	Activists	52.2	0.0
#87	—	Sarah Brown	United Kingdom	Activists	52.1	14.8
#88	—	Alessandra Rojo de la Vega	Mexico	Activists	52.1	15.0
#89	—	Alfredo Cospito	Italy	Activists	52.1	15.0
#90	—	Rani Rashmoni	—	Activists	52.0	0.0
#91	—	Sunitha Krishnan	India	Activists	51.9	3.2
#92	—	Noelia Castillo Ramos	Spain	Activists	51.9	1.3
#93	—	Jamila Afghani	—	Activists	51.8	11.6
#94	—	Florence Devouard	France	Activists	51.8	0.0
#95	—	Sônia Guajajara	Brazil	Activists	51.5	0.0
#96	—	Sharjeel Imam	India	Activists	51.5	8.1
#97	—	Amina Tyler	—	Activists	51.4	10.0
#98	—	María Fernanda Carrascal	—	Activists	51.4	13.2
#99	—	Tabata Amaral	Brazil	Activists	51.4	0.0
#100	—	Analilia Mejia	United States	Activists	51.4	0.0

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