The Most Famous
EXTREMISTS from Spain
This page contains a list of the greatest Spanish Extremists. The pantheon dataset contains 209 Extremists, 3 of which were born in Spain. This makes Spain the birth place of the 16th most number of Extremists behind Iraq and Turkey.
Top 3
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Spanish Extremists of all time. This list of famous Spanish Extremists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Ramón Mercader (1913 - 1978)
With an HPI of 69.35, Ramón Mercader is the most famous Spanish Extremist. His biography has been translated into 34 different languages on wikipedia.
Ramón Mercader (Jaime Ramón Mercader del Río, 7 February 1913 – 18 October 1978), was a Spanish Communist and NKVD secret agent who assassinated the revolutionary Leon Trotsky in Mexico City in August 1940. Mercader was imprisoned for 19 years and 8 months in Mexico for murdering the exiled detractor with an ice axe. In 1960, after release from Mexican imprisonment, Mercader was awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union medal and the Order of Lenin medal, and lived at different times in Cuba, the Soviet Union, and Czechoslovakia.
2. Luis Carrero Blanco (1904 - 1973)
With an HPI of 64.97, Luis Carrero Blanco is the 2nd most famous Spanish Extremist. His biography has been translated into 40 different languages.
Admiral-General Luis Carrero Blanco (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈlwis kaˈreɾo ˈβlaŋko]; 4 March 1904 – 20 December 1973) was a Spanish Navy officer and politician. A long-time confidant and right-hand man of dictator Francisco Franco, Carrero served as Spain's Premier. Upon graduating from the naval academy Carrero Blanco participated in the Rif War, and later the Spanish Civil War, in which he supported the Rebel faction. He became one of the most prominent figures in the Francoist dictatorship's power structure and held throughout his career a number of high-ranking offices such as those of Undersecretary of the Presidency from 1941 to 1967 and Franco's deputy from 1967 to 1973. He also was the main drafter behind the 1947 Law of Succession to the Headship of the State. Franco handpicked him as his successor in the role of head of government, with Carrero thereby taking office in June 1973. Shortly after he became prime minister, Carrero Blanco was assassinated in Madrid in a streetside bombing on 20 December 1973 by the Basque nationalist group Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) while he was returning from Mass in his car.
3. Émile Henry (1872 - 1894)
With an HPI of 52.73, Émile Henry is the 3rd most famous Spanish Extremist. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.
Émile Henry (26 September 1872 – 21 May 1894) was a French anarchist, who on 12 February 1894 detonated a bomb at the Café Terminus in the Parisian Gare Saint-Lazare killing one person and wounding twenty. Though his activity in the anarchist movement was limited, he garnered much attention as a result of his crimes and of his age. He was also seen as one of the first people of a growing group of revolutionaries (largely anarchist) who subscribed to the doctrine of the "propaganda of the deed", which would later take the life of many governmental figures.
Pantheon has 3 people classified as extremists born between 1872 and 1913. Of these 3, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased extremists include Ramón Mercader, Luis Carrero Blanco, and Émile Henry. As of April 2022, 1 new extremists have been added to Pantheon including Émile Henry.
Deceased Extremists
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Ramón Mercader
1913 - 1978
HPI: 69.35
Luis Carrero Blanco
1904 - 1973
HPI: 64.97
Émile Henry
1872 - 1894
HPI: 52.73
Newly Added Extremists (2022)
Go to all RankingsWhich Extremists were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 3 most globally memorable Extremists since 1700.
