SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Manuela Sáenz

1797 - 1856

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Manuela Sáenz de Vergara y Aizpuru (Quito, Viceroyalty of New Granada, 27 December 1797 – Peru, 23 November 1856) was an neogranadine revolutionary heroine of South America who supported the revolutionary cause by gathering information, distributing leaflets and protesting for women's rights. Manuela received the Order of the Sun ("Caballeresa del Sol" or 'Dame of the Sun'), honoring her services in the revolution. Sáenz married a wealthy English doctor in 1817 and became a socialite in Lima, Peru. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Manuela Sáenz has received more than 903,607 page views. Her biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Manuela Sáenz is the 189th most popular social activist (down from 156th in 2019), the 5th most popular biography from Ecuador and the most popular Ecuadorean Social Activist.

Manuela Sáenz is most famous for being the mistress of Simón Bolívar, the liberator of much of South America.

Memorability Metrics

  • 900k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.71

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.32

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.89

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Manuela Sáenzs by language

Over the past year Manuela Sáenz has had the most page views in the with 512,224 views, followed by English (81,727), and Portuguese (13,082). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (110.96%), Breton (67.44%), and Quechua (61.52%)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Manuela Sáenz ranks 189 out of 840Before her are Kailash Satyarthi, Huda Sha'arawi, Edward Snowden, Abbé Pierre, Salvador Puig Antich, and Kang Pan-sok. After her are Kartini, Chen Sheng, Subcomandante Marcos, Bernard II, Duke of Saxony, Bacha Khan, and Lepa Radić.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1797, Manuela Sáenz ranks 25Before her are Maria Isabel of Braganza, Princess Henrietta of Nassau-Weilburg, Carlo Blasis, Sojourner Truth, Ida Laura Pfeiffer, and Duchess Maria Dorothea of Württemberg. After her are Giuditta Pasta, Carl Gustaf Mosander, Prince Frederick of the Netherlands, Princess Maria Antonia Koháry, Antonio Rosmini, and Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel. Among people deceased in 1856, Manuela Sáenz ranks 14Before her are Ivan Paskevich, Étienne Cabet, Ľudovít Štúr, 11th Dalai Lama, Théodore Chassériau, and Farkas Bolyai. After her are Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall, Florestan I, Prince of Monaco, Princess Elisabeth of Savoy, David d'Angers, Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov, and Augustin Thierry.

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In Ecuador

Among people born in Ecuador, Manuela Sáenz ranks 5 out of 147Before her are Guillermo Lasso (1955), Huayna Capac (1476), Rafael Correa (1963), and Lenín Moreno (1953). After her are María Capovilla (1889), Alberto Spencer (1937), Gabriel García Moreno (1821), Alfredo Palacio (1939), José María Velasco Ibarra (1893), Gustavo Noboa (1937), and Eloy Alfaro (1842).

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Ecuador

Among social activists born in Ecuador, Manuela Sáenz ranks 1After her are Osvaldo Hurtado (1939), and Helena Gualinga (2002).