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Carlos Marighella

1911 - 1969

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Carlos Marighella (Brazilian Portuguese: [ˈkaʁluz ˌmaɾiˈɡɛlɐ]; 5 December 1911 – 4 November 1969) was a Brazilian politician, writer, and militant of Marxist–Leninist orientation. Critical of nonviolent resistance to the Brazilian military dictatorship, he founded the Ação Libertadora Nacional, a Marxist–Leninist urban guerrilla group, which was responsible for a series of bank robberies and high-profile kidnappings. He was killed by police in 1969 in an ambush. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carlos Marighella has received more than 277,616 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Carlos Marighella is the 2,068th most popular writer (up from 2,505th in 2019), the 153rd most popular biography from Brazil (up from 203rd in 2019) and the 9th most popular Brazilian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Carlos Marighella ranks 2,068 out of 5,755Before him are William of Moerbeke, Jacopone da Todi, Marcellinus Comes, Kingsley Amis, Josef Lada, and Stanisław Przybyszewski. After him are Nigidius Figulus, Erinna, Anastasius Sinaita, Handrij Zejler, Johanna van Gogh-Bonger, and Auguste Maquet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Carlos Marighella ranks 100Before him are Hans Woellke, Karl Frenzel, Nikolai Kuznetsov, Zenkō Suzuki, Danny Kaye, and Martin Sandberger. After him are Peter van Eyck, Teddy Kollek, Franz Binder, Jehan Alain, Infanta María Cristina of Spain, and Birger Ruud. Among people deceased in 1969, Carlos Marighella ranks 77Before him are Meher Baba, Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg, Thelma Ritter, Jeffrey Hunter, Adolfo López Mateos, and Coleman Hawkins. After him are Peter van Eyck, Max Weinreich, Josef Blösche, Rómulo Gallegos, John Kennedy Toole, and Constantin Ion Parhon.

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In Brazil

Among people born in Brazil, Carlos Marighella ranks 153 out of 2,067Before him are Gal Costa (1945), David Luiz (1987), Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves (1848), Hélio Gracie (1913), Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli (1910), and Pedro de Alcântara, Prince of Grão-Pará (1875). After him are Rogério Ceni (1973), João Guimarães Rosa (1908), Bartolomeu de Gusmão (1685), Júlio César (1979), Véra Clouzot (1913), and Everaldo (1944).

Among WRITERS In Brazil

Among writers born in Brazil, Carlos Marighella ranks 9Before him are Machado de Assis (1839), Vinicius de Moraes (1913), José Mauro de Vasconcelos (1920), Chico Xavier (1910), Mário de Andrade (1893), and Augusto Boal (1931). After him are João Guimarães Rosa (1908), Carlos Drummond de Andrade (1902), José de Alencar (1829), Monteiro Lobato (1882), Oswald de Andrade (1890), and Rubem Fonseca (1925).