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The Most Famous

MILITARY PERSONNELS from Bolivia

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This page contains a list of the greatest Bolivian Military Personnels. The pantheon dataset contains 1,468 Military Personnels, 2 of which were born in Bolivia. This makes Bolivia the birth place of the 67th most number of Military Personnels behind North Korea and Chile.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Bolivian Military Personnels of all time. This list of famous Bolivian Military Personnels is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Mario Terán (1942 - 2022)

With an HPI of 54.83, Mario Terán is the most famous Bolivian Military Personnel.  His biography has been translated into 15 different languages on wikipedia.

Mario Terán Salazar (9 April 1942 – 10 March 2022) was a Bolivian Army warrant officer who executed Che Guevara as a young sergeant in 1967. Guevara, a Marxist revolutionary from Argentina, had played a major role in the Cuban Revolution, in which the 26th of July Movement, led by Fidel Castro, ousted U.S.-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista and replaced his government with a revolutionary socialist state.

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2. Juana Azurduy de Padilla (1780 - 1862)

With an HPI of 50.58, Juana Azurduy de Padilla is the 2nd most famous Bolivian Military Personnel.  Her biography has been translated into 17 different languages.

Juana Azurduy de Padilla (July 12, 1780 – May 25, 1862) was a guerrilla military leader from Chuquisaca, Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata (now Sucre, Bolivia). She fought for Bolivian and Argentine independence alongside her husband, Manuel Ascencio Padilla, earning the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. She was noted for her strong support for and military leadership of the indigenous people of Upper Peru. Today, she is regarded as an independence hero in both countries.In 2015, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, a statue of Azurduy replaced the one of Christopher Columbus in front of the Centro Cultural Kirchner, causing some controversy.

Pantheon has 2 people classified as military personnels born between 1780 and 1942. Of these 2, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased military personnels include Mario Terán and Juana Azurduy de Padilla. As of April 2022, 1 new military personnels have been added to Pantheon including Mario Terán.

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