The Most Famous
SOCIAL ACTIVISTS from Libya
This page contains a list of the greatest Libyan Social Activists. The pantheon dataset contains 538 Social Activists, 1 of which were born in Libya. This makes Libya the birth place of the 66th most number of Social Activists behind El Salvador and North Macedonia.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Libyan Social Activists of all time. This list of famous Libyan Social Activists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Omar Mukhtar (1858 - 1931)
With an HPI of 70.27, Omar Mukhtar is the most famous Libyan Social Activist. His biography has been translated into 46 different languages on wikipedia.
Omar al-Mukhṭār Muḥammad bin Farḥāṭ al-Manifī (Arabic: عُمَر الْمُخْتَار مُحَمَّد بِن فَرْحَات الْمَنِفِي; 20 August 1858 – 16 September 1931), called The Lion of the Desert, known among the colonial Italians as Matari of the Mnifa, was an Imam and leader of native resistance in Cyrenaica (currently Eastern Libya) under the Senussids, against the Italian colonization of Libya. A teacher-turned-general, Omar was a prominent figure of the Senussi movement and is considered the national hero of Libya and a symbol of resistance in the Arab and Islamic worlds. Beginning in 1911, he organised and led the Libyan resistance movement against the Italian colonial empire during the First and Second Italo-Senussi Wars. Externally, he also fought against the French colonization of Chad and the British occupation of Egypt. After many attempts, the Italian Armed Forces managed to capture Al-Mukhtar near Slonta when he was wounded in battle by Libyan colonial troops, and hanged him in 1931 after he refused to surrender.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as social activists born between 1858 and 1858. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased social activists include Omar Mukhtar.
