1879 - 1919
Emiliano Zapata Salazar (Spanish pronunciation: [emiˈljano saˈpata]; August 8, 1879 – April 10, 1919) was a Mexican revolutionary. He was a leading figure in the Mexican Revolution of 1910–1920, the main leader of the people's revolution in the Mexican state of Morelos, and the inspiration of the agrarian movement called Zapatismo. Zapata was born in the rural village of Anenecuilco in Morelos, in an era when peasant communities came under increasing repression from the small-landowning class who monopolized land and water resources for sugarcane production with the support of dictator Porfirio Díaz (President from 1877 to 1880 and 1884 to 1911). Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Emiliano Zapata has received more than 3,715,946 page views. His biography is available in 70 different languages on Wikipedia. Emiliano Zapata is the 27th most popular social activist (down from 25th in 2019), the 6th most popular biography from Mexico (up from 7th in 2019) and the most popular Mexican Social Activist.
Emiliano Zapata is most famous for his role in the Mexican Revolution, which he led. He was a peasant farmer who fought for land reform and the redistribution of wealth.
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Among social activists, Emiliano Zapata ranks 27 out of 538. Before him are Peter Kropotkin, Charlotte Corday, Olympe de Gouges, Irena Sendler, Bertha von Suttner, and Thomas Müntzer. After him are Omar Mukhtar, Martin Niemöller, Pheidippides, Élie Ducommun, Ferdinand Lassalle, and Simon Wiesenthal.
1842 - 1921
HPI: 73.06
Rank: 21
1768 - 1793
HPI: 72.82
Rank: 22
1748 - 1793
HPI: 71.95
Rank: 23
1910 - 2008
HPI: 71.83
Rank: 24
1843 - 1914
HPI: 71.07
Rank: 25
1489 - 1525
HPI: 70.52
Rank: 26
1879 - 1919
HPI: 70.52
Rank: 27
1858 - 1931
HPI: 70.27
Rank: 28
1892 - 1984
HPI: 70.18
Rank: 29
600 BC - 490 BC
HPI: 69.86
Rank: 30
1833 - 1906
HPI: 69.77
Rank: 31
1825 - 1864
HPI: 69.74
Rank: 32
1908 - 2005
HPI: 69.41
Rank: 33
Among people born in 1879, Emiliano Zapata ranks 9. Before him are Leon Trotsky, Paul Klee, Kazimir Malevich, Emperor Taishō, Franz von Papen, and Otto Hahn. After him are Max von Laue, Owen Willans Richardson, Alma Mahler, Symon Petliura, Francis Picabia, and Ottorino Respighi. Among people deceased in 1919, Emiliano Zapata ranks 9. Before him are Theodore Roosevelt, Ernst Haeckel, Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Emil Fischer, Karl Liebknecht, and Alfred Werner. After him are Gojong of Korea, John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, Andrew Carnegie, Ruggero Leoncavallo, William Crookes, and Carl Larsson.
1879 - 1940
HPI: 84.04
Rank: 3
1879 - 1940
HPI: 75.98
Rank: 4
1879 - 1935
HPI: 75.00
Rank: 5
1879 - 1926
HPI: 73.39
Rank: 6
1879 - 1969
HPI: 72.87
Rank: 7
1879 - 1968
HPI: 72.06
Rank: 8
1879 - 1919
HPI: 70.52
Rank: 9
1879 - 1960
HPI: 69.58
Rank: 10
1879 - 1959
HPI: 69.23
Rank: 11
1879 - 1964
HPI: 68.05
Rank: 12
1879 - 1926
HPI: 67.15
Rank: 13
1879 - 1953
HPI: 66.09
Rank: 14
1879 - 1936
HPI: 65.19
Rank: 15
1858 - 1919
HPI: 77.31
Rank: 3
1834 - 1919
HPI: 75.41
Rank: 4
1857 - 1919
HPI: 73.52
Rank: 5
1852 - 1919
HPI: 71.30
Rank: 6
1871 - 1919
HPI: 71.06
Rank: 7
1866 - 1919
HPI: 70.70
Rank: 8
1879 - 1919
HPI: 70.52
Rank: 9
1852 - 1919
HPI: 69.96
Rank: 10
1842 - 1919
HPI: 69.62
Rank: 11
1835 - 1919
HPI: 69.04
Rank: 12
1857 - 1919
HPI: 69.00
Rank: 13
1832 - 1919
HPI: 67.56
Rank: 14
1853 - 1919
HPI: 66.91
Rank: 15
Among people born in Mexico, Emiliano Zapata ranks 6 out of 585. Before him are Frida Kahlo (1907), Anthony Quinn (1915), Diego Rivera (1886), Moctezuma II (1466), and Geronimo (1829). After him are Carlos Slim (1940), Pancho Villa (1878), Carlos Santana (1947), La Malinche (1502), Octavio Paz (1914), and Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo (1946).
1907 - 1954
HPI: 86.54
Rank: 1
1915 - 2001
HPI: 75.36
Rank: 2
1886 - 1957
HPI: 75.18
Rank: 3
1466 - 1520
HPI: 73.18
Rank: 4
1829 - 1909
HPI: 71.04
Rank: 5
1879 - 1919
HPI: 70.52
Rank: 6
1940 - Present
HPI: 70.48
Rank: 7
1878 - 1923
HPI: 68.47
Rank: 8
1947 - Present
HPI: 67.80
Rank: 9
1502 - 1529
HPI: 67.33
Rank: 10
1914 - 1998
HPI: 66.82
Rank: 11
1946 - Present
HPI: 66.52
Rank: 12
Among social activists born in Mexico, Emiliano Zapata ranks 1. After him are Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla (1753), Subcomandante Marcos (1957), Ricardo Flores Magón (1874), Leona Vicario (1789), Miriam Rodríguez Martínez (1967), Lydia Cacho (1963), Guadalupe Campanur Tapia (1986), and Xiye Bastida (2002).
1879 - 1919
HPI: 70.52
Rank: 1
1753 - 1811
HPI: 64.19
Rank: 2
1957 - Present
HPI: 57.44
Rank: 3
1874 - 1922
HPI: 52.17
Rank: 4
1789 - 1842
HPI: 49.76
Rank: 5
1967 - 2017
HPI: 41.03
Rank: 6
1963 - Present
HPI: 39.29
Rank: 7
1986 - 2018
HPI: 22.06
Rank: 8
2002 - Present
HPI: 20.58
Rank: 9