1913 - 1975
James Riddle Hoffa (born February 14, 1913 – disappeared July 30, 1975, declared dead July 30, 1982) was an American labor union leader who served as the president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) from 1957 until 1971. From an early age, Hoffa was a union activist, and he became an important regional figure with the IBT by his mid-twenties. By 1952, he was the national vice-president of the IBT and between 1957 and 1971 he was its general president. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jimmy Hoffa has received more than 18,468,092 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Jimmy Hoffa is the 36th most popular social activist (up from 118th in 2019), the 365th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,264th in 2019) and the 6th most popular American Social Activist.
Jimmy Hoffa was a labor union leader who disappeared in 1975. He was depicted in Martin Scorsese's 2019 film The Irishman, which was adapted from the book I Heard You Paint Houses by Charles Brandt.
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Among social activists, Jimmy Hoffa ranks 36 out of 544. Before him are Simon bar Kokhba, Emma Goldman, Jan Palach, Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī, Sadako Sasaki, and Sophie Scholl. After him are Pheidippides, Omar Mukhtar, Simon Wiesenthal, Alexey Stakhanov, Carl von Ossietzky, and Stenka Razin.
50 - 135
HPI: 76.23
Rank: 30
1869 - 1940
HPI: 76.22
Rank: 31
1948 - 1969
HPI: 76.00
Rank: 32
1837 - 1897
HPI: 75.96
Rank: 33
1943 - 1955
HPI: 75.89
Rank: 34
1921 - 1943
HPI: 75.85
Rank: 35
1913 - 1975
HPI: 75.79
Rank: 36
600 BC - 490 BC
HPI: 75.64
Rank: 37
1858 - 1931
HPI: 75.62
Rank: 38
1908 - 2005
HPI: 75.56
Rank: 39
1906 - 1977
HPI: 75.38
Rank: 40
1889 - 1938
HPI: 75.25
Rank: 41
1630 - 1671
HPI: 75.08
Rank: 42
Among people born in 1913, Jimmy Hoffa ranks 19. Before him are Ramón Mercader, Klaus Barbie, Claude Simon, Benjamin Britten, Gustáv Husák, and Josef Bican. After him are Sabiha Gökçen, Makarios III, Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona, Bảo Đại, Lon Nol, and Albert Ellis. Among people deceased in 1975, Jimmy Hoffa ranks 16. Before him are Umm Kulthum, Faisal of Saudi Arabia, Mikhail Bakhtin, Arnold J. Toynbee, Josephine Baker, and Gustav Ludwig Hertz. After him are Saint-John Perse, George Paget Thomson, Josemaría Escrivá, Nikolai Bulganin, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, and Graham Hill.
1913 - 1978
HPI: 76.55
Rank: 13
1913 - 1991
HPI: 76.54
Rank: 14
1913 - 2005
HPI: 76.36
Rank: 15
1913 - 1976
HPI: 76.13
Rank: 16
1913 - 1991
HPI: 75.94
Rank: 17
1913 - 2001
HPI: 75.82
Rank: 18
1913 - 1975
HPI: 75.79
Rank: 19
1913 - 2001
HPI: 75.68
Rank: 20
1913 - 1977
HPI: 74.95
Rank: 21
1913 - 1993
HPI: 74.71
Rank: 22
1913 - 1997
HPI: 74.13
Rank: 23
1913 - 1985
HPI: 73.98
Rank: 24
1913 - 2007
HPI: 73.76
Rank: 25
1898 - 1975
HPI: 78.44
Rank: 10
1906 - 1975
HPI: 77.95
Rank: 11
1895 - 1975
HPI: 77.45
Rank: 12
1889 - 1975
HPI: 77.45
Rank: 13
1906 - 1975
HPI: 77.42
Rank: 14
1887 - 1975
HPI: 77.24
Rank: 15
1913 - 1975
HPI: 75.79
Rank: 16
1887 - 1975
HPI: 74.48
Rank: 17
1892 - 1975
HPI: 74.04
Rank: 18
1902 - 1975
HPI: 74.01
Rank: 19
1895 - 1975
HPI: 73.82
Rank: 20
1920 - 1975
HPI: 73.50
Rank: 21
1929 - 1975
HPI: 73.33
Rank: 22
Among people born in United States, Jimmy Hoffa ranks 365 out of 15,968. Before him are John Quincy Adams (1767), Robert Johnson (1911), Claude Shannon (1916), Jim Mattis (1950), Zodiac Killer (1940), and Herbert A. Simon (1916). After him are Philip Roth (1933), Robert E. Lee (1807), Margaret Mead (1901), Montgomery Clift (1920), Shaquille O'Neal (1972), and Alvin Toffler (1928).
1767 - 1848
HPI: 75.86
Rank: 359
1911 - 1938
HPI: 75.84
Rank: 360
1916 - 2001
HPI: 75.83
Rank: 361
1950 - Present
HPI: 75.82
Rank: 362
1940 - Present
HPI: 75.80
Rank: 363
1916 - 2001
HPI: 75.79
Rank: 364
1913 - 1975
HPI: 75.79
Rank: 365
1933 - 2018
HPI: 75.77
Rank: 366
1807 - 1870
HPI: 75.75
Rank: 367
1901 - 1978
HPI: 75.75
Rank: 368
1920 - 1966
HPI: 75.72
Rank: 369
1972 - Present
HPI: 75.68
Rank: 370
1928 - 2016
HPI: 75.67
Rank: 371
Among social activists born in United States, Jimmy Hoffa ranks 6. Before him are Malcolm X (1925), Eleanor Roosevelt (1884), Martin Luther King Jr. (1929), Helen Keller (1880), and Rosa Parks (1913). After him are Emily Greene Balch (1867), Jane Addams (1860), Susan B. Anthony (1820), Angela Davis (1944), Bugsy Siegel (1906), and John Brown (1800).
1925 - 1965
HPI: 88.13
Rank: 1
1884 - 1962
HPI: 85.50
Rank: 2
1929 - 1968
HPI: 84.34
Rank: 3
1880 - 1968
HPI: 82.77
Rank: 4
1913 - 2005
HPI: 81.77
Rank: 5
1913 - 1975
HPI: 75.79
Rank: 6
1867 - 1961
HPI: 74.11
Rank: 7
1860 - 1935
HPI: 71.68
Rank: 8
1820 - 1906
HPI: 71.60
Rank: 9
1944 - Present
HPI: 71.43
Rank: 10
1906 - 1947
HPI: 70.86
Rank: 11
1800 - 1859
HPI: 69.27
Rank: 12