The Most Famous
SOCIAL ACTIVISTS from Bosnia and Herzegovina
This page contains a list of the greatest Bosnian, Herzegovinian Social Activists. The pantheon dataset contains 840 Social Activists, 3 of which were born in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This makes Bosnia and Herzegovina the birth place of the 43rd most number of Social Activists behind Peru, and Bulgaria.
Top 3
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Bosnian, Herzegovinian Social Activists of all time. This list of famous Bosnian, Herzegovinian Social Activists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Lepa Radić (1925 - 1943)
With an HPI of 58.42, Lepa Radić is the most famous Bosnian, Herzegovinian Social Activist. Her biography has been translated into 23 different languages on wikipedia.
Lepa Svetozara Radić (Serbian Cyrillic: Лепа Светозара Радић; 19 December 1925 – 8 February 1943) was a Yugoslav Partisan and communist of Serbian origin who was awarded the Order of the People's Hero in 1951 for her role in the resistance movement against the Axis powers in the Second World War—becoming the youngest recipient at the time. She was executed at the age of 17 for shooting at German troops. As her captors tied the noose around her neck, they offered her a reprieve from the gallows if she would reveal her comrades' and leaders' identities. She responded that she was not a traitor and that her comrades would reveal themselves when they avenged her death.
2. Muhamed Mehmedbašić (1886 - 1943)
With an HPI of 55.36, Muhamed Mehmedbašić is the 2nd most famous Bosnian, Herzegovinian Social Activist. His biography has been translated into 19 different languages.
Muhamed Mehmedbašić (1887 – 29 May 1943) was a Bosnian revolutionary and the main planner in the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which led to a sequence of events that resulted in the outbreak of World War I.
3. Edvin Kanka Cudic (b. 1988)
With an HPI of 33.31, Edvin Kanka Cudic is the 3rd most famous Bosnian, Herzegovinian Social Activist. His biography has been translated into 31 different languages.
Edvin Kanka Ćudić (Cyrillic: Едвин Канка Ћудић; born 31 December 1988) is a Bosnian human rights activist, martial artist and writer who is best known as the leader of the UDIK, a non-governmental organisation campaigning for human rights and reconciliation in the former Yugoslavia. In 2023, he won the Kemal Kurspahić International Journalist Award for best published story in Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin and Serbian for his story "Grobnica nade" (The Grave of Hope).
People
Pantheon has 3 people classified as Bosnian, Herzegovinian social activists born between 1886 and 1988. Of these 3, 1 (33.33%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Bosnian, Herzegovinian social activists include Edvin Kanka Cudic. The most famous deceased Bosnian, Herzegovinian social activists include Lepa Radić, and Muhamed Mehmedbašić.
