SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Leona Vicario

1789 - 1842

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María de la Soledad Leona Camila Vicario Fernández de San Salvador, best known as Leona Vicario (April 10, 1789 – August 21, 1842), was one of the most prominent figures of the Mexican War of Independence. She was dedicated to informing insurgents of movements in her home Mexico City, the capital of the viceroyalty. She was a member of Los Guadalupes, one of the earliest independence movements in New Spain. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leona Vicario has received more than 101,090 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Leona Vicario is the 428th most popular social activist (down from 360th in 2019), the 199th most popular biography from Mexico (down from 169th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Mexican Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Leona Vicario ranks 428 out of 840Before her are Iosif Grigulevich, Saalumarada Thimmakka, Afeni Shakur, Leonard Peltier, Matilda Joslyn Gage, and Rajendra K. Pachauri. After her are Malala Yousafzai, Yacouba Sawadogo, Ōsugi Sakae, İbrahim Kaypakkaya, Surya Sen, and Lester R. Brown.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1789, Leona Vicario ranks 39Before her are Friedrich Silcher, Richard Bright, Manuel Gómez Pedraza, Miguel Barragán, Cesare Balbo, and Peter Joseph Lenné. After her are Carlos Soublette, Thaddeus Bulgarin, Franz Xaver Gabelsberger, Manuel de la Peña y Peña, Michel Félix Dunal, and Joséphine Fodor. Among people deceased in 1842, Leona Vicario ranks 32Before her are Robert Smith, Nodira, Thomas Arnold, Shah Shujah Durrani, Wilhelm Gesenius, and Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse. After her are Aleksey Koltsov, Henry Shrapnel, James Ivory, Letitia Christian Tyler, William Ellery Channing, and Aylmer Bourke Lambert.

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In Mexico

Among people born in Mexico, Leona Vicario ranks 199 out of 729Before her are Julio César Chávez (1962), Adela Noriega (1969), Prince Hubertus of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1959), Norberto Rivera Carrera (1942), Rafael Osuna (1938), and Canelo Álvarez (1990). After her are Juan O'Gorman (1905), Don Miguel Ruiz (1952), Guillermo Arriaga (1958), Ernesto Alonso (1917), Abraham Laboriel (1947), and Manuel de la Peña y Peña (1789).

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Mexico

Among social activists born in Mexico, Leona Vicario ranks 5Before her are Emiliano Zapata (1879), Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla (1753), Subcomandante Marcos (1957), and Ricardo Flores Magón (1874). After her are Miriam Rodríguez Martínez (1967), Elvia Carrillo Puerto (1878), Lydia Cacho (1963), Leydy Pech (1965), Xiye Bastida (2002), and Guadalupe Campanur Tapia (1986).