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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 famous 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 97,560 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Fra Diavolo is the 277th most popular social activist (down from 243rd in 2019).

Memorability Metrics

  • 98k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.28

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.91

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.21

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Fra Diavolo ranks 277 out of 538Before him are Eunus, Leymah Gbowee, Joseph von Sonnenfels, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Carlo Cafiero, and Li Hongzhi. After him are Eglantyne Jebb, Josephine Butler, Harilal Gandhi, Greta Thunberg, Pavel Pestel, and Christa Schroeder.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1771, Fra Diavolo ranks 26Before him are Mikhail Miloradovich, Rahel Varnhagen, Jean Rapp, Johann Baptist Cramer, Henry Maudslay, and Georges Cadoudal. After him are Nikolay Raevsky, Pierre Baillot, Jean Reynier, Caroline of Hesse-Homburg, Pierre-François Bouchard, and Jacob Sturm. Among people deceased in 1806, Fra Diavolo ranks 32Before him are Shah Alam II, Pavel Tsitsianov, George Stubbs, George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, Gim Hongdo, and Federico Gravina. After him are Mathurin Jacques Brisson, Michael von Melas, Jean Joseph Mounier, Horatio Gates, Charles James Fox, and Karoline von Günderrode.

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