SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Mohamed Bouazizi

1984 - 2011

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Tarek El-Tayeb Mohamed Bouazizi (Arabic: طارق الطيب محمد البوعزيزي, romanized: Ṭāriq aṭ-Ṭayib Muḥammad al-Būʿazīzī; 29 March 1984 – 4 January 2011) was a Tunisian street vendor who set himself on fire on 17 December 2010 in Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia, an act which became a catalyst for the Tunisian Revolution and the wider Arab Spring against autocratic regimes. His self-immolation was in response to the confiscation of his wares and the harassment and humiliation inflicted on him by a municipal official and their aides. Simmering public anger and sporadic violence intensified following Bouazizi's death, leading the then-president of Tunisia, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali to step down on 14 January 2011, after 23 years in power. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mohamed Bouazizi has received more than 1,500,333 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Mohamed Bouazizi is the 333rd most popular social activist (up from 484th in 2019), the 63rd most popular biography from Tunisia (up from 94th in 2019) and the most popular Tunisian Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Mohamed Bouazizi ranks 333 out of 840Before him are Viola Desmond, Ricardo Flores Magón, Edna Parker, Joe Hill, Dhondo Keshav Karve, and Lampião. After him are Sultan al-Atrash, Vladimir Burtsev, Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia, Sergei Kovalev, Ho Jong-suk, and Harry Wu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1984, Mohamed Bouazizi ranks 24Before him are Beren Saat, Burak Özçivit, Katy Perry, Thiago Silva, Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, and Antonio Puerta. After him are Gaspard Ulliel, Robert Kubica, Indila, Maxi López, Santi Cazorla, and Eliud Kipchoge. Among people deceased in 2011, Mohamed Bouazizi ranks 161Before him are Koichi Tohei, Bo Carpelan, Thor Vilhjálmsson, Sena Jurinac, Leka, Crown Prince of Albania, and Randy Savage. After him are Ladislav Novák, David Wilkerson, María Mercader, Josefa Iloilo, Frederick Chiluba, and Pedro Armendáriz Jr..

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In Tunisia

Among people born in Tunisia, Mohamed Bouazizi ranks 63 out of 210Before him are Nicola Pietrangeli (1933), Abdellatif Kechiche (1960), Ahmed Hachani (1956), Bertrand Delanoë (1950), Hannibal Gisco (-300), and Bahi Ladgham (1913). After him are Dracontius (455), Gisèle Halimi (1927), Abdelmajid Lakhal (1939), Najla Bouden (1958), Hasdrubal the Boetharch (-200), and Silvan Shalom (1958).

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Tunisia

Among social activists born in Tunisia, Mohamed Bouazizi ranks 1After him are Lina Ben Mhenni (1983), Amina Tyler (1994), and Emna Mizouni (1987).