1889 - 2006
María Esther Heredia Lecaro de Capovilla, known internationally as María Capovilla (14 September 1889 – 27 August 2006), was an Ecuadorian supercentenarian, and, at the time of her death at age 116 years, 347 days, was recognized by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest living person. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of María Capovilla has received more than 237,746 page views. Her biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). María Capovilla is the 48th most popular celebrity (up from 53rd in 2019), the 6th most popular biography from Ecuador (down from 5th in 2019) and the most popular Ecuadorean Celebrity.
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Among celebrities, María Capovilla ranks 48 out of 181. Before her are Jean-Marie Loret, Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione, Kim Peek, Emilie Louise Flöge, Chandra Bahadur Dangi, and Elizabeth Stride. After her are Alice Keppel, Dan Inosanto, Joseph Meister, Florence Owens Thompson, Sultan Kösen, and Victor Kugler.
1918 - 1985
HPI: 58.33
Rank: 42
1837 - 1899
HPI: 58.31
Rank: 43
1951 - 2009
HPI: 58.30
Rank: 44
1874 - 1952
HPI: 58.10
Rank: 45
1939 - 2015
HPI: 58.09
Rank: 46
1843 - 1888
HPI: 58.08
Rank: 47
1889 - 2006
HPI: 57.95
Rank: 48
1868 - 1947
HPI: 57.80
Rank: 49
1936 - Present
HPI: 57.59
Rank: 50
1876 - 1940
HPI: 56.88
Rank: 51
1903 - 1983
HPI: 56.78
Rank: 52
1982 - Present
HPI: 56.55
Rank: 53
1900 - 1981
HPI: 56.52
Rank: 54
Among people born in 1889, María Capovilla ranks 57. Before her are Prince Xavier of Bourbon-Parma, Stanislav Kosior, Li Dazhao, Siegfried Kracauer, Fritz Pfeffer, and Hannah Höch. After her are Richard Glücks, Gunnar Gunnarsson, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Erle Stanley Gardner, Harry Nyquist, and Takeo Kurita. Among people deceased in 2006, María Capovilla ranks 73. Before her are Reinhart Koselleck, Gillo Pontecorvo, Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, Rudolf Vrba, Allen Carr, and Hassan Gouled Aptidon. After her are Aaron Spelling, Ferenc Bene, Ryutaro Hashimoto, David Bronstein, Paul Marcinkus, and Billy Preston.
1889 - 1977
HPI: 58.78
Rank: 51
1889 - 1939
HPI: 58.73
Rank: 52
1889 - 1927
HPI: 58.68
Rank: 53
1889 - 1966
HPI: 58.66
Rank: 54
1889 - 1944
HPI: 58.46
Rank: 55
1889 - 1978
HPI: 58.37
Rank: 56
1889 - 2006
HPI: 57.95
Rank: 57
1889 - 1945
HPI: 57.95
Rank: 58
1889 - 1975
HPI: 57.81
Rank: 59
1889 - 1943
HPI: 57.78
Rank: 60
1889 - 1970
HPI: 57.75
Rank: 61
1889 - 1976
HPI: 57.50
Rank: 62
1889 - 1977
HPI: 57.27
Rank: 63
1923 - 2006
HPI: 58.41
Rank: 67
1919 - 2006
HPI: 58.41
Rank: 68
1926 - 2006
HPI: 58.28
Rank: 69
1924 - 2006
HPI: 58.25
Rank: 70
1934 - 2006
HPI: 58.00
Rank: 71
1916 - 2006
HPI: 57.97
Rank: 72
1889 - 2006
HPI: 57.95
Rank: 73
1923 - 2006
HPI: 57.80
Rank: 74
1944 - 2006
HPI: 57.57
Rank: 75
1937 - 2006
HPI: 57.55
Rank: 76
1924 - 2006
HPI: 57.49
Rank: 77
1922 - 2006
HPI: 57.44
Rank: 78
1946 - 2006
HPI: 57.39
Rank: 79
Among people born in Ecuador, María Capovilla ranks 6 out of 126. Before her are Guillermo Lasso (1955), Huayna Capac (1476), Lenín Moreno (1953), Rafael Correa (1963), and Manuela Sáenz (1797). After her are Gabriel García Moreno (1821), Alberto Spencer (1937), Alfredo Palacio (1939), Frederick Ashton (1904), Eloy Alfaro (1842), and José María Velasco Ibarra (1893).
1955 - Present
HPI: 64.70
Rank: 1
1476 - 1525
HPI: 63.86
Rank: 2
1953 - Present
HPI: 59.95
Rank: 3
1963 - Present
HPI: 59.80
Rank: 4
1797 - 1856
HPI: 59.10
Rank: 5
1889 - 2006
HPI: 57.95
Rank: 6
1821 - 1875
HPI: 55.26
Rank: 7
1937 - 2006
HPI: 54.10
Rank: 8
1939 - Present
HPI: 52.27
Rank: 9
1904 - 1988
HPI: 52.13
Rank: 10
1842 - 1912
HPI: 51.69
Rank: 11
1893 - 1979
HPI: 51.67
Rank: 12
Among celebrities born in Ecuador, María Capovilla ranks 1.