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Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla

1753 - 1811

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Don Miguel Gregorio Antonio Ignacio Hidalgo y Costilla Gallaga Mandarte y Villaseñor (8 May 1753 – 30 July 1811), more commonly known as Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla or Miguel Hidalgo (Spanish pronunciation: [miˈɣel iˈðalɣo]), was a Catholic priest, leader of the Mexican War of Independence and recognized as the Father of the Nation. A professor at the Colegio de San Nicolás Obispo in Valladolid, Hidalgo was influenced by Enlightenment ideas, which contributed to his ouster in 1792. He served in a church in Colima and then in Dolores. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla has received more than 1,667,942 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla is the 81st most popular social activist (down from 68th in 2019), the 21st most popular biography from Mexico (up from 22nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Mexican Social Activist.

Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla was a catholic priest and revolutionary who led the Mexican War of Independence. He was most famous for leading the Mexican War of Independence.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla ranks 81 out of 538. Before him are Buenaventura Durruti, Betty Williams, Aleksandr Ulyanov, Annie Besant, Thomas Cranmer, and Axel Munthe. After him are Liu Xiaobo, Edmond James de Rothschild, Bugsy Siegel, Sakamoto Ryōma, Gerald Durrell, and Dragutin Dimitrijević.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1753, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla ranks 7. Before him are Utamaro, Joseph de Maistre, Louis-Alexandre Berthier, Lazare Carnot, Jean-Baptiste Kléber, and Benjamin Thompson. After him are Marie Joséphine of Savoy, Phillis Wheatley, Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Denmark, Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, Duchess of Orléans, Louis I, Grand Duke of Hesse, and Samuel Crompton. Among people deceased in 1811, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla ranks 4. Before him are Heinrich von Kleist, Peter Simon Pallas, and Louis Antoine de Bougainville. After him are Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden, Dositej Obradović, Jean Chalgrin, Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, Ignacio Allende, Nevil Maskelyne, Marie-Joseph Chénier, and Christoph Friedrich Nicolai.

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In Mexico

Among people born in Mexico, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla ranks 21 out of 585. Before him are Salma Hayek (1966), Agustín de Iturbide (1783), Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán (1957), Antonio López de Santa Anna (1794), Benito Juárez (1806), and Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648). After him are Andrés Manuel López Obrador (1953), Moctezuma I (1398), Vicente Fernández (1940), Vicente Fox (1942), Francisco I. Madero (1873), and Cantinflas (1911).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Mexico

Among social activists born in Mexico, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla ranks 2. Before him are Emiliano Zapata (1879). After him are Subcomandante Marcos (1957), Ricardo Flores Magón (1874), Leona Vicario (1789), Miriam Rodríguez Martínez (1967), Lydia Cacho (1963), Guadalupe Campanur Tapia (1986), and Xiye Bastida (2002).

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