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María Capovilla

1889 - 2006

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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.

Memorability Metrics

  • 240k

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  • 57.95

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.15

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.94

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among CELEBRITIES

Among celebrities, María Capovilla ranks 48 out of 181Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, María Capovilla ranks 57Before 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 73Before 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.

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In Ecuador

Among people born in Ecuador, María Capovilla ranks 6 out of 126Before 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).

Among CELEBRITIES In Ecuador

Among celebrities born in Ecuador, María Capovilla ranks 1