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Marielle Franco

1979 - 2018

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Marielle Franco (Portuguese pronunciation: [maɾiˈɛli ˈfɾɐ̃ku]; born Marielle Francisco da Silva, 27 July 1979 – 14 March 2018) was a Brazilian politician, sociologist, feminist, socialist and human rights activist. Franco served as a city councillor of the Municipal Chamber of Rio de Janeiro for the Socialism and Liberty Party (PSOL) from January 2017 until her assassination. On 14 March 2018, while in a car after delivering a speech in the north of Rio de Janeiro, Franco and her driver were shot multiple times and killed by two former police officers travelling in another vehicle. Franco had been an outspoken critic of police brutality and extrajudicial killings, as well as the February 2018 federal intervention by Brazilian president Michel Temer in the state of Rio de Janeiro, which resulted in the deployment of the army in police operations. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2024). Marielle Franco is the 17,033rd most popular politician (down from 16,771st in 2024), the 843rd most popular biography from Brazil (down from 836th in 2019) and the 79th most popular Brazilian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Marielle Franco ranks 17,033 out of 19,576. Before her are Chokri Belaid, Masoumeh Ebtekar, Sergio Massa, Fatemeh Rahbar, Sin-Eribam, and Frederick Merriman. After her are Franca Falcucci, Stéphane Dion, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Tomislav Karamarko, V. K. Krishna Menon, and Ulrike Lunacek.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1979, Marielle Franco ranks 225. Before her are Chris Klein, Vlada Avramov, Tanya Tate, David Bisbal, David Jarolím, and Alexander Povetkin. After her are Selçuk Bayraktar, Rachael Leigh Cook, Benji Madden, Fábio Simplício, Kota Minami, and Nazanin Boniadi. Among people deceased in 2018, Marielle Franco ranks 498. Before her are Stanley Anderson, Ray Thomas, James Dunbar, Rafael Amador, Geoff Murphy, and Alberto Dines. After her are Jānis Bojārs, Igor Korobov, Danny Kirwan, Rim Banna, Soslan Andiyev, and Matti Kassila.

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In Brazil

Among people born in Brazil, Marielle Franco ranks 843 out of 2,236. Before her are Alexandre José Bortolato (1973), João Carlos de Oliveira (1954), Zetti (1965), Alberto Dines (1932), Cuca (1963), and Everton Nogueira (1959). After her are Antônio Silva (1952), Izabel Goulart (1984), Daniela Escobar (1969), Fábio Simplício (1979), Diego Carlos (1993), and Juninho Fonseca (1958).

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Among POLITICIANS In Brazil

Among politicians born in Brazil, Marielle Franco ranks 79. Before her are Ricardo Teixeira (1947), Augusto Pestana (1868), Marco Maciel (1940), Augusto Hamann Rademaker Grünewald (1905), Alexandre de Moraes (1968), and Luciano Burti (1975). After her are Ciro Gomes (1957), Eduardo Riedel (1969), Aécio Neves (1960), Eduardo Paes (1969), Gilberto Kassab (1960), and Adriana Behar (1969).

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