SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Carlos Fonseca

1936 - 1976

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Carlos Fonseca Amador (23 June 1936 – 8 November 1976) was a Nicaraguan professor, politician, writer and revolutionary who was one of the founders of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN). Fonseca was later killed in the mountains of the Zelaya Department, Nicaragua, three years before the FSLN took power. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carlos Fonseca has received more than 190,377 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Carlos Fonseca is the 456th most popular social activist, the 22nd most popular biography from Nicaragua and the 2nd most popular Nicaraguan Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Carlos Fonseca ranks 456 out of 840Before him are Olga Lepeshinskaya, Hamida Javanshir, Tuvia Bielski, Mohammad Ali Jauhar, Lucy Stone, and Nikolay Bauman. After him are Nazik al-Abid, Christine Delphy, Gabrielle Petit, Kim Ok, Mary Toft, and Shivakumara Swami.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Carlos Fonseca ranks 334Before him are Robert W. Floyd, Òscar Ribas Reig, Tomáš Pospíchal, Art Metrano, Ashley Cooper, and Carl Icahn. After him are Jurij Koch, Julio Terrazas Sandoval, Isacio Calleja, Richard Harrison, Tony Dallara, and Carol Morris. Among people deceased in 1976, Carlos Fonseca ranks 166Before him are Manuel Olivares, Wilhelmina von Bremen, Ernst Albrecht, Rudi Fischer, Edith Evans, and Veikko Huhtanen. After him are Mark Tobey, Markus Reiner, Zainul Abedin, Fritz Rasp, Saneatsu Mushanokōji, and Yashpal.

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In Nicaragua

Among people born in Nicaragua, Carlos Fonseca ranks 22 out of 34Before him are Edén Pastora (1936), Claribel Alegría (1924), Miguel Obando y Bravo (1926), José Santos Zelaya (1853), Emiliano Chamorro Vargas (1871), and Alexis Argüello (1952). After him are José María Moncada (1870), Leopoldo Brenes (1949), René Schick (1909), Carlos José Solórzano (1860), Rafael Ángel Calderón Fournier (1949), and Fernando Cardenal (1934).

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Nicaragua

Among social activists born in Nicaragua, Carlos Fonseca ranks 2Before him are Augusto César Sandino (1895).