1876 - 1917
Margaretha Geertruida MacLeod (née Zelle; 7 August 1876 – 15 October 1917), better known by the stage name Mata Hari (; from Malay, "sun" or "eye of the day"), was a Dutch woman who was convicted of being a spy for Germany during World War I. She was executed by firing squad in France. The idea of a beautiful woman using her powers of seduction as a spy made her name synonymous with the femme fatale. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mata Hari has received more than 8,279,357 page views. Her biography is available in 74 different languages on Wikipedia. Mata Hari is the most popular dancer, the 13th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 9th in 2019) and the most popular Dutch Dancer.
Mata Hari was a Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan who was executed by firing squad for espionage.
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Among dancers, Mata Hari ranks 1 out of 76. After her are Isadora Duncan, Josephine Baker, Rudolf Nureyev, Anna Pavlova, Vaslav Nijinsky, Pina Bausch, Marius Petipa, Bobby Farrell, Margot Fonteyn, Maurice Béjart, and Maya Plisetskaya.
1876 - 1917
HPI: 77.20
Rank: 1
1877 - 1927
HPI: 74.00
Rank: 2
1906 - 1975
HPI: 73.19
Rank: 3
1938 - 1993
HPI: 73.06
Rank: 4
1881 - 1931
HPI: 72.06
Rank: 5
1889 - 1950
HPI: 70.73
Rank: 6
1940 - 2009
HPI: 68.76
Rank: 7
1818 - 1910
HPI: 67.58
Rank: 8
1949 - 2010
HPI: 66.84
Rank: 9
1919 - 1991
HPI: 66.30
Rank: 10
1927 - 2007
HPI: 65.82
Rank: 11
1925 - 2015
HPI: 65.71
Rank: 12
Among people born in 1876, Mata Hari ranks 4. Before her are Pope Pius XII, Jack London, and Konrad Adenauer. After her are Erich Raeder, Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, Wilhelm Pieck, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Zewditu, Constantin Brâncuși, Pablo Casals, and Manuel de Falla. Among people deceased in 1917, Mata Hari ranks 5. Before her are Émile Durkheim, Octave Mirbeau, Auguste Rodin, and Edgar Degas. After her are L. L. Zamenhof, Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Eduard Buchner, Adolf von Baeyer, Edward Burnett Tylor, Emil von Behring, and Buffalo Bill.
1876 - 1958
HPI: 79.51
Rank: 1
1876 - 1916
HPI: 78.94
Rank: 2
1876 - 1967
HPI: 77.27
Rank: 3
1876 - 1917
HPI: 77.20
Rank: 4
1876 - 1960
HPI: 72.16
Rank: 5
1876 - 1956
HPI: 70.73
Rank: 6
1876 - 1960
HPI: 70.34
Rank: 7
1876 - 1944
HPI: 69.95
Rank: 8
1876 - 1930
HPI: 69.60
Rank: 9
1876 - 1957
HPI: 69.36
Rank: 10
1876 - 1973
HPI: 68.36
Rank: 11
1876 - 1946
HPI: 67.87
Rank: 12
1858 - 1917
HPI: 82.92
Rank: 1
1848 - 1917
HPI: 80.43
Rank: 2
1840 - 1917
HPI: 80.34
Rank: 3
1834 - 1917
HPI: 79.06
Rank: 4
1876 - 1917
HPI: 77.20
Rank: 5
1859 - 1917
HPI: 76.38
Rank: 6
1838 - 1917
HPI: 71.21
Rank: 7
1860 - 1917
HPI: 70.20
Rank: 8
1835 - 1917
HPI: 69.87
Rank: 9
1832 - 1917
HPI: 69.65
Rank: 10
1854 - 1917
HPI: 69.30
Rank: 11
1846 - 1917
HPI: 69.02
Rank: 12
Among people born in Netherlands, Mata Hari ranks 13 out of 1,427. Before her are Piet Mondrian (1872), Hieronymus Bosch (1450), Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632), Johan Cruyff (1947), Christiaan Huygens (1629), and Hugo Grotius (1583). After her are Abel Tasman (1603), Beatrix of the Netherlands (1938), Daniel Bernoulli (1700), Hendrik Lorentz (1853), M. C. Escher (1898), and William III of England (1650).
1872 - 1944
HPI: 80.46
Rank: 7
1450 - 1516
HPI: 80.10
Rank: 8
1632 - 1723
HPI: 79.56
Rank: 9
1947 - 2016
HPI: 78.85
Rank: 10
1629 - 1695
HPI: 77.71
Rank: 11
1583 - 1645
HPI: 77.44
Rank: 12
1876 - 1917
HPI: 77.20
Rank: 13
1603 - 1659
HPI: 77.10
Rank: 14
1938 - Present
HPI: 76.26
Rank: 15
1700 - 1782
HPI: 75.57
Rank: 16
1853 - 1928
HPI: 74.96
Rank: 17
1898 - 1972
HPI: 74.69
Rank: 18
1650 - 1702
HPI: 74.02
Rank: 19
Among dancers born in Netherlands, Mata Hari ranks 1. After her are Hans van Manen (1932).