Dancer

Mata Hari

Dutch exotic dancer, courtesan and spy

1876 - 1917

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Mata Hari

Her biography is available in 78 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 75 in 2024). Mata Hari is the most popular dancer, the 12th most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 14th in 2019) and the most popular Dutch Dancer.

Mata Hari was a Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan who was executed by firing squad for espionage.

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2.3M

Page Views

Past 12 months

82.51

HPI

Historical Popularity Index

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2.3M

With 2.3M Wikipedia page views over the past year, Mata Hari was the most viewed of all Dancers.

#12 / 2,139

Mata Hari ranks #12 among 2,139 people in Pantheon born in Netherlands, inside the top 1% of that group.

+239

Mata Hari climbed 239 places in Pantheon's global HPI ranking, from #1,016 to #777.

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Among Dancers

Among dancers, Mata Hari ranks 1 out of 135. After her are Isadora Duncan, Rudolf Nureyev, Anna Pavlova, Josephine Baker, Vaslav Nijinsky, Marie Taglioni, Maurice Béjart, Pina Bausch, Marius Petipa, Bobby Farrell, and Mikhail Baryshnikov.

Most Popular Dancers in Wikipedia

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Mata Hari
1876 - 1917
HPI: 82.51
Rank: 1
Isadora Duncan
1877 - 1927
HPI: 79.77
Rank: 2
Rudolf Nureyev
1938 - 1993
HPI: 77.75
Rank: 3
Anna Pavlova
1881 - 1931
HPI: 77.37
Rank: 4
Josephine Baker
1906 - 1975
HPI: 77.25
Rank: 5
Vaslav Nijinsky
1889 - 1950
HPI: 75.42
Rank: 6
Marie Taglioni
1804 - 1884
HPI: 73.20
Rank: 7
Maurice Béjart
1927 - 2007
HPI: 73.16
Rank: 8
Pina Bausch
1940 - 2009
HPI: 73.09
Rank: 9
Marius Petipa
1818 - 1910
HPI: 73.03
Rank: 10
Bobby Farrell
1949 - 2010
HPI: 72.73
Rank: 11
Mikhail Baryshnikov
1948 - Present
HPI: 71.16
Rank: 12

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1876, Mata Hari ranks 3. Before her are Pope Pius XII, and Muhammad Ali Jinnah. After her are Konrad Adenauer, Jack London, Adolf Windaus, John Macleod, Róbert Bárány, Erich Raeder, Zewditu, Otto Diels, and Wilhelm Pieck. Among people deceased in 1917, Mata Hari ranks 4. Before her are Émile Durkheim, Octave Mirbeau, and Auguste Rodin. After her are Edgar Degas, L. L. Zamenhof, Liliʻuokalani, Eduard Buchner, Adolf von Baeyer, Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Emil von Behring, and Emil Theodor Kocher.

Others Born in 1876

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Pope Pius XII
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
1876 - 1958
HPI: 87.71
Rank: 1
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
POLITICIAN
1876 - 1948
HPI: 86.88
Rank: 2
Mata Hari
DANCER
1876 - 1917
HPI: 82.51
Rank: 3
Konrad Adenauer
POLITICIAN
1876 - 1967
HPI: 81.91
Rank: 4
Jack London
WRITER
1876 - 1916
HPI: 81.73
Rank: 5
Adolf Windaus
CHEMIST
1876 - 1959
HPI: 78.89
Rank: 6
John Macleod
CHEMIST
1876 - 1935
HPI: 78.77
Rank: 7
Róbert Bárány
PHYSICIAN
1876 - 1936
HPI: 77.51
Rank: 8
Erich Raeder
MILITARY PERSONNEL
1876 - 1960
HPI: 76.83
Rank: 9
Zewditu
POLITICIAN
1876 - 1930
HPI: 76.79
Rank: 10
Otto Diels
CHEMIST
1876 - 1954
HPI: 76.26
Rank: 11
Wilhelm Pieck
POLITICIAN
1876 - 1960
HPI: 75.42
Rank: 12

Others Deceased in 1917

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Émile Durkheim
SOCIOLOGIST
1858 - 1917
HPI: 85.14
Rank: 1
Octave Mirbeau
WRITER
1848 - 1917
HPI: 84.08
Rank: 2
Auguste Rodin
SCULPTOR
1840 - 1917
HPI: 83.07
Rank: 3
Mata Hari
DANCER
1876 - 1917
HPI: 82.51
Rank: 4
Edgar Degas
PAINTER
1834 - 1917
HPI: 82.47
Rank: 5
L. L. Zamenhof
PHYSICIAN
1859 - 1917
HPI: 82.06
Rank: 6
Liliʻuokalani
NOBLEMAN
1838 - 1917
HPI: 79.39
Rank: 7
Eduard Buchner
CHEMIST
1860 - 1917
HPI: 78.78
Rank: 8
Adolf von Baeyer
CHEMIST
1835 - 1917
HPI: 76.52
Rank: 9
Ferdinand von Zeppelin
BUSINESSPERSON
1838 - 1917
HPI: 75.74
Rank: 10
Emil von Behring
PHYSICIAN
1854 - 1917
HPI: 74.21
Rank: 11
Emil Theodor Kocher
PHYSICIAN
1841 - 1917
HPI: 73.92
Rank: 12

In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Mata Hari ranks 12 out of 2,139. Before her are Johannes Vermeer (1632), Piet Mondrian (1872), Johan Cruyff (1947), Pope Adrian VI (1459), Hieronymus Bosch (1450), and Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1525). After her are Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632), Christiaan Huygens (1629), Hendrik Lorentz (1853), Beatrix of the Netherlands (1938), Daniel Bernoulli (1700), and Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff (1852).

Others born in Netherlands

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Johannes Vermeer
PAINTER
1632 - 1675
HPI: 87.28
Rank: 6
Piet Mondrian
PAINTER
1872 - 1944
HPI: 84.15
Rank: 7
Johan Cruyff
SOCCER PLAYER
1947 - 2016
HPI: 84.03
Rank: 8
Pope Adrian VI
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
1459 - 1523
HPI: 83.91
Rank: 9
Hieronymus Bosch
PAINTER
1450 - 1516
HPI: 83.79
Rank: 10
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
PAINTER
1525 - 1569
HPI: 83.58
Rank: 11
Mata Hari
DANCER
1876 - 1917
HPI: 82.51
Rank: 12
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
BIOLOGIST
1632 - 1723
HPI: 82.46
Rank: 13
Christiaan Huygens
PHYSICIST
1629 - 1695
HPI: 82.04
Rank: 14
Hendrik Lorentz
PHYSICIST
1853 - 1928
HPI: 81.81
Rank: 15
Beatrix of the Netherlands
POLITICIAN
1938 - Present
HPI: 81.24
Rank: 16
Daniel Bernoulli
PHYSICIST
1700 - 1782
HPI: 80.97
Rank: 17
Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
CHEMIST
1852 - 1911
HPI: 80.83
Rank: 18