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Mata Hari

1876 - 1917

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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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  • 8.3M

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  • 77.20

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 74

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.89

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.88

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Among DANCERS

Among dancers, Mata Hari ranks 1 out of 76After 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1876, Mata Hari ranks 4Before 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 5Before 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.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Mata Hari ranks 13 out of 1,427Before 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).

Among DANCERS In Netherlands

Among dancers born in Netherlands, Mata Hari ranks 1After her are Hans van Manen (1932).