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The Most Famous

SOCIAL ACTIVISTS from Guatemala

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This page contains a list of the greatest Guatemalan Social Activists. The pantheon dataset contains 538 Social Activists, 2 of which were born in Guatemala. This makes Guatemala the birth place of the 58th most number of Social Activists behind Bangladesh and Thailand.

Top 2

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

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1. Rigoberta Menchú (1959 - )

With an HPI of 58.68, Rigoberta Menchú is the most famous Guatemalan Social Activist.  Her biography has been translated into 73 different languages on wikipedia.

Rigoberta Menchú Tum (Spanish: [riɣoˈβeɾta menˈtʃu]; born 9 January 1959) is a K'iche' Guatemalan human rights activist, feminist, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Menchú has dedicated her life to publicizing the rights of Guatemala's Indigenous peoples during and after the Guatemalan Civil War (1960–1996), and to promoting Indigenous rights internationally.She received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992 and the Princess of Asturias Award in 1998, in addition to other prestigious awards. She is the subject of the testimonial biography I, Rigoberta Menchú (1983) and the author of the autobiographical work, Crossing Borders (1998), among other works. Menchú is a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador. She ran for president of Guatemala in 2007 and 2011, having founded the country's first Indigenous political party, Winaq.

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2. Norma Cruz (1962 - )

With an HPI of 38.02, Norma Cruz is the 2nd most famous Guatemalan Social Activist.  Her biography has been translated into 19 different languages.

Norma Cruz is a Guatemalan human rights activist known for her work documenting violence against women.

Pantheon has 2 people classified as social activists born between 1959 and 1962. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living social activists include Rigoberta Menchú and Norma Cruz.

Living Social Activists

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