1928 - 1967
Ernesto "Che" Guevara (Spanish: [ˈtʃe ɣeˈβaɾa]; 14 June 1928 – 9 October 1967) was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous countercultural symbol of rebellion and global insignia in popular culture. As a young medical student, Guevara traveled throughout South America and was radicalized by the poverty, hunger, and disease he witnessed. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Che Guevara has received more than 30,100,900 page views. His biography is available in 159 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 157 in 2019). Che Guevara is the most popular social activist, the most popular biography from Argentina and the most popular Argentinean Social Activist.
Che Guevara is most famous for his role in the Cuban Revolution, which led to the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista and the establishment of a socialist state.
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Among social activists, Che Guevara ranks 1 out of 538. After him are Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Malcolm X, Jan Hus, Rosa Luxemburg, Mother Teresa, Henry Dunant, Eleanor Roosevelt, Martin Luther King Jr., Helen Keller, and Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi.
1928 - 1967
HPI: 90.65
Rank: 1
1869 - 1948
HPI: 88.49
Rank: 2
1918 - 2013
HPI: 88.40
Rank: 3
1925 - 1965
HPI: 83.94
Rank: 4
1369 - 1415
HPI: 81.44
Rank: 5
1871 - 1919
HPI: 80.96
Rank: 6
1910 - 1997
HPI: 80.90
Rank: 7
1828 - 1910
HPI: 80.37
Rank: 8
1884 - 1962
HPI: 79.77
Rank: 9
1929 - 1968
HPI: 78.22
Rank: 10
1880 - 1968
HPI: 77.80
Rank: 11
1746 - 1827
HPI: 76.85
Rank: 12
Among people born in 1928, Che Guevara ranks 1. After him are Andy Warhol, Stanley Kubrick, John Forbes Nash Jr., Ennio Morricone, Hosni Mubarak, Noam Chomsky, Ariel Sharon, Eduard Shevardnadze, James Watson, Chinghiz Aitmatov, and Serge Gainsbourg. Among people deceased in 1967, Che Guevara ranks 1. After him are René Magritte, Konrad Adenauer, Puyi, Vivien Leigh, Ilse Koch, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Spencer Tracy, Vladimir Komarov, Clement Attlee, Edward Hopper, and Mohammad Mosaddegh.
1928 - 1967
HPI: 90.65
Rank: 1
1928 - 1987
HPI: 79.50
Rank: 2
1928 - 1999
HPI: 79.07
Rank: 3
1928 - 2015
HPI: 78.62
Rank: 4
1928 - 2020
HPI: 78.13
Rank: 5
1928 - 2020
HPI: 77.58
Rank: 6
1928 - Present
HPI: 77.50
Rank: 7
1928 - 2014
HPI: 76.46
Rank: 8
1928 - 2014
HPI: 74.14
Rank: 9
1928 - Present
HPI: 74.10
Rank: 10
1928 - 2008
HPI: 72.29
Rank: 11
1928 - 1991
HPI: 72.26
Rank: 12
1928 - 1967
HPI: 90.65
Rank: 1
1898 - 1967
HPI: 77.56
Rank: 2
1876 - 1967
HPI: 77.27
Rank: 3
1906 - 1967
HPI: 77.19
Rank: 4
1913 - 1967
HPI: 76.69
Rank: 5
1906 - 1967
HPI: 71.36
Rank: 6
1904 - 1967
HPI: 71.29
Rank: 7
1900 - 1967
HPI: 70.83
Rank: 8
1927 - 1967
HPI: 70.23
Rank: 9
1883 - 1967
HPI: 69.51
Rank: 10
1882 - 1967
HPI: 69.39
Rank: 11
1882 - 1967
HPI: 68.77
Rank: 12
Among people born in Argentina, Che Guevara ranks 1 out of 1,019. After him are Pope Francis (1936), Jorge Luis Borges (1899), Diego Maradona (1960), Alfredo Di Stéfano (1926), Eva Perón (1919), Daniel Barenboim (1942), Astor Piazzolla (1921), Juan Perón (1895), Juan Manuel Fangio (1911), Martha Argerich (1941), and Lionel Messi (1987).
1928 - 1967
HPI: 90.65
Rank: 1
1936 - Present
HPI: 89.75
Rank: 2
1899 - 1986
HPI: 78.18
Rank: 3
1960 - 2020
HPI: 77.68
Rank: 4
1926 - 2014
HPI: 75.85
Rank: 5
1919 - 1952
HPI: 74.99
Rank: 6
1942 - Present
HPI: 73.63
Rank: 7
1921 - 1992
HPI: 73.59
Rank: 8
1895 - 1974
HPI: 73.43
Rank: 9
1911 - 1995
HPI: 72.77
Rank: 10
1941 - Present
HPI: 71.55
Rank: 11
1987 - Present
HPI: 69.60
Rank: 12
Among social activists born in Argentina, Che Guevara ranks 1. After him are Adolfo Pérez Esquivel (1931), Estela de Carlotto (1930), Virginia Bolten (1876), and Maria Verónica Reina (1964).
1928 - 1967
HPI: 90.65
Rank: 1
1931 - Present
HPI: 60.08
Rank: 2
1930 - Present
HPI: 49.31
Rank: 3
1876 - 1960
HPI: 45.26
Rank: 4
1964 - 2017
HPI: 37.40
Rank: 5