SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Fra Diavolo

1771 - 1806

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Fra Diavolo (lit. Brother Devil; 7 April 1771–11 November 1806), is the popular name given to Michele Pezza, a guerrilla leader who resisted the French occupation of Naples, proving an "inspirational practitioner of popular insurrection". Pezza figures prominently in folk lore and fiction. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fra Diavolo has received more than 107,580 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Fra Diavolo is the 260th most popular social activist (up from 277th in 2019).

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  • 110k

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  • 55.31

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.39

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.07

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Fra Diavolo ranks 260 out of 840. Before him are Nancy Wake, Tawakkol Karman, Harro Schulze-Boysen, Ignacy Hryniewiecki, Muhamed Mehmedbašić, and Christa Schroeder. After him are William I, Margrave of Meissen, Jan Gotlib Bloch, Sergey Taboritsky, George Lincoln Rockwell, Camilo Torres Restrepo, and Cassivellaunus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1771, Fra Diavolo ranks 25. Before him are Duke Alexander of Württemberg, Éleuthère Irénée du Pont, Rahel Varnhagen, Ferdinando Paer, Nicolas Chopin, and Jean Rapp. After him are Georges Cadoudal, Henry Maudslay, Nikolay Raevsky, Johann Baptist Cramer, Pierre Baillot, and Vincenzo Camuccini. Among people deceased in 1806, Fra Diavolo ranks 30. Before him are Pavel Tsitsianov, Shah Alam II, Vicente Martín y Soler, Prince Francis Xavier of Saxony, George Stubbs, and Federico Gravina. After him are Horatio Gates, Michael von Melas, Gim Hongdo, Timothy Dexter, Jean Joseph Mounier, and Eugenios Voulgaris.

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