1884 - 1941
Maria Alexandrovna Spiridonova (Russian: Мари́я Алекса́ндровна Спиридо́нова; 16 October 1884 – 11 September 1941) was a Narodnik-inspired Russian revolutionary. In 1906, as a novice member of a local combat group of the Tambov Socialists-Revolutionaries (SRs), she assassinated a security official. Her subsequent abuse by police earned her enormous popularity with the opponents of Tsarism throughout the empire and even abroad.After spending over 11 years in Siberian prisons she was freed after the February Revolution of 1917, and returned to European Russia as a heroine of the destitute, and especially of the peasants. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maria Spiridonova has received more than 216,950 page views. Her biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Maria Spiridonova is the 163rd most popular social activist (down from 161st in 2019), the 497th most popular biography from Russia (down from 440th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Russian Social Activist.
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Among social activists, Maria Spiridonova ranks 163 out of 538. Before her are Alexei Navalny, Vladimir Bukovsky, Rigoberta Menchú, Jan Karski, Unity Mitford, and Grigory Mikhaylovich Semyonov. After her are Dmitry Muratov, Campaspe, Yiannis Ritsos, Gaius Julius Civilis, Al-Mu'tazz, and Soh Jaipil.
1976 - Present
HPI: 58.86
Rank: 157
1942 - 2019
HPI: 58.84
Rank: 158
1959 - Present
HPI: 58.68
Rank: 159
1914 - 2000
HPI: 58.50
Rank: 160
1914 - 1948
HPI: 58.50
Rank: 161
1890 - 1946
HPI: 58.39
Rank: 162
1884 - 1941
HPI: 58.36
Rank: 163
1961 - Present
HPI: 58.34
Rank: 164
400 BC - 360 BC
HPI: 58.31
Rank: 165
1909 - 1990
HPI: 58.30
Rank: 166
25 - 100
HPI: 58.28
Rank: 167
847 - 869
HPI: 58.22
Rank: 168
1864 - 1951
HPI: 58.14
Rank: 169
Among people born in 1884, Maria Spiridonova ranks 49. Before her are Louis B. Mayer, Hugo Gernsback, Antonín Zápotocký, Zinaida Serebriakova, Prince Adalbert of Prussia, and Hugo Schmeisser. After her are Ivan Maisky, Princess Helen of Serbia, Béla Balázs, Clark L. Hull, Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Georges Duhamel. Among people deceased in 1941, Maria Spiridonova ranks 54. Before her are Gaetano Mosca, Tullio Levi-Civita, Hans Driesch, Lou Gehrig, Edwin S. Porter, and Benjamin Lee Whorf. After her are Franz Gürtner, Émile Picard, Ivan Panfilov, Hans Berger, Charles Huntziger, and Amrita Sher-Gil.
1884 - 1957
HPI: 59.21
Rank: 43
1884 - 1967
HPI: 59.08
Rank: 44
1884 - 1957
HPI: 59.06
Rank: 45
1884 - 1967
HPI: 58.96
Rank: 46
1884 - 1948
HPI: 58.66
Rank: 47
1884 - 1953
HPI: 58.55
Rank: 48
1884 - 1941
HPI: 58.36
Rank: 49
1884 - 1975
HPI: 58.35
Rank: 50
1884 - 1962
HPI: 58.20
Rank: 51
1884 - 1949
HPI: 58.13
Rank: 52
1884 - 1952
HPI: 57.89
Rank: 53
1884 - 1966
HPI: 57.75
Rank: 54
1884 - 1966
HPI: 57.71
Rank: 55
1858 - 1941
HPI: 58.88
Rank: 48
1873 - 1941
HPI: 58.75
Rank: 49
1867 - 1941
HPI: 58.65
Rank: 50
1903 - 1941
HPI: 58.61
Rank: 51
1870 - 1941
HPI: 58.53
Rank: 52
1897 - 1941
HPI: 58.45
Rank: 53
1884 - 1941
HPI: 58.36
Rank: 54
1881 - 1941
HPI: 58.27
Rank: 55
1856 - 1941
HPI: 57.80
Rank: 56
1893 - 1941
HPI: 57.78
Rank: 57
1873 - 1941
HPI: 57.59
Rank: 58
1880 - 1941
HPI: 57.37
Rank: 59
1913 - 1941
HPI: 57.15
Rank: 60
Among people born in Russia, Maria Spiridonova ranks 497 out of 3,262. Before her are Valery Gerasimov (1955), Ivan Bilibin (1876), Sacha Guitry (1885), Viktor Belenko (1947), Grigory Mikhaylovich Semyonov (1890), and Urie Bronfenbrenner (1917). After her are Ivan Maisky (1884), Leonid Gaidai (1923), Nikolay Zhukovsky (1847), Dmitry Muratov (1961), Alexander Butlerov (1828), and Gavrila Derzhavin (1743).
1955 - Present
HPI: 58.46
Rank: 491
1876 - 1942
HPI: 58.44
Rank: 492
1885 - 1957
HPI: 58.44
Rank: 493
1947 - Present
HPI: 58.41
Rank: 494
1890 - 1946
HPI: 58.39
Rank: 495
1917 - 2005
HPI: 58.37
Rank: 496
1884 - 1941
HPI: 58.36
Rank: 497
1884 - 1975
HPI: 58.35
Rank: 498
1923 - 1993
HPI: 58.34
Rank: 499
1847 - 1921
HPI: 58.34
Rank: 500
1961 - Present
HPI: 58.34
Rank: 501
1828 - 1886
HPI: 58.32
Rank: 502
1743 - 1816
HPI: 58.25
Rank: 503
Among social activists born in Russia, Maria Spiridonova ranks 12. Before her are Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya (1923), Sergey Nechayev (1847), Ilya Ulyanov (1831), Alexei Navalny (1976), Vladimir Bukovsky (1942), and Grigory Mikhaylovich Semyonov (1890). After her are Dmitry Muratov (1961), Zinaida Portnova (1926), Sophia Perovskaya (1853), Nikolai Kuznetsov (1911), Vera Figner (1852), and Alexander Antonov (1889).
1923 - 1941
HPI: 61.56
Rank: 6
1847 - 1882
HPI: 60.37
Rank: 7
1831 - 1886
HPI: 59.04
Rank: 8
1976 - Present
HPI: 58.86
Rank: 9
1942 - 2019
HPI: 58.84
Rank: 10
1890 - 1946
HPI: 58.39
Rank: 11
1884 - 1941
HPI: 58.36
Rank: 12
1961 - Present
HPI: 58.34
Rank: 13
1926 - 1944
HPI: 57.38
Rank: 14
1853 - 1881
HPI: 55.96
Rank: 15
1911 - 1944
HPI: 55.27
Rank: 16
1852 - 1942
HPI: 54.39
Rank: 17
1889 - 1922
HPI: 54.11
Rank: 18