SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Marina Ginestà

1919 - 2014

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Marina Ginestà i Coloma (29 January 1919 – 6 January 2014) was a French-born Spanish communist, a member of the Unified Socialist Youth, and an iconic figure of the Spanish Civil War. She became famous due to the photo taken by Juan Guzmán on the rooftop of the Hotel Colón, Plaça de Catalunya 9, Barcelona during the July 1936 military uprising in Barcelona. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marina Ginestà has received more than 264,643 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Marina Ginestà is the 239th most popular social activist (down from 234th in 2019), the 2,196th most popular biography from France (up from 2,349th in 2019) and the 17th most popular French Social Activist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 260k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.42

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.47

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.13

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Marina Ginestà ranks 239 out of 840. Before her are Kate Sheppard, Jayaprakash Narayan, Viktors Arājs, Simon bar Giora, Nimr al-Nimr, and W. E. B. Du Bois. After her are David Riazanov, David Lane, Maria Altmann, Stjepan Filipović, Vera Figner, and Diana Budisavljević.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Marina Ginestà ranks 85. Before her are Uta Hagen, Peter Abrahams, Frederik Pohl, Mario Bunge, Janko Bobetko, and Ernst Barkmann. After her are Hermann Gmeiner, Margaret Burbidge, Edoardo Mangiarotti, Ginette Neveu, Amir-Abbas Hoveyda, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Among people deceased in 2014, Marina Ginestà ranks 111. Before her are Leo Tindemans, Manitas de Plata, Serge Moscovici, Vasily Petrov, Shulamit Aloni, and Ken Takakura. After her are Alice Herz-Sommer, Alice Babs, Carlos Páez Vilaró, Igor Mitoraj, Edward Herrmann, and Ralph Waite.

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In France

Among people born in France, Marina Ginestà ranks 2,196 out of 6,770. Before her are Sami Frey (1937), Pierre Gringore (1475), Léon Cogniet (1794), Charles Cros (1842), Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens (1704), and Pierre Nora (1931). After her are Avitus of Vienne (450), Maria of Navarre (1326), Bernadette Lafont (1938), Patrice Leconte (1947), Ivo of Chartres (1040), and Rudolf Schmundt (1896).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In France

Among social activists born in France, Marina Ginestà ranks 17. Before her are René Just Haüy (1743), Abbé Pierre (1912), Balthasar Gérard (1557), Ravachol (1859), Guillaume Cale (1350), and Édouard René de Laboulaye (1811). After her are François-Jean de la Barre (1745), Germaine Tillion (1907), Martin Guerre (1524), Christine Delphy (1941), Joseph Wresinski (1917), and Eugénie Cotton (1881).

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