SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Mother Teresa

1910 - 1997

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Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu (born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, Albanian: [aˈɲɛzə ˈɡɔndʒɛ bɔjaˈdʒi.u]; 26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), better known as Mother Teresa or Saint Mother Teresa, was an Albanian-Indian Catholic nun, founder of the Missionaries of Charity and is a Catholic saint. Born in Skopje, then part of the Ottoman Empire, she was raised in a devoutly Catholic family. At the age of 18, she moved to Ireland to join the Sisters of Loreto and later to India, where she lived most of her life and carried out her missionary work. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mother Teresa has received more than 30,009,268 page views. Her biography is available in 138 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 135 in 2019). Mother Teresa is the 9th most popular social activist (down from 7th in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from North Macedonia and the most popular Macedonian Social Activist.

Mother Teresa is most famous for founding the Missionaries of Charity, a religious congregation of Roman Catholic sisters who work with the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying. The congregation was founded in Calcutta, India in 1950.

Memorability Metrics

  • 30M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 80.11

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 138

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.05

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.76

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Mother Teresa ranks 9 out of 840. Before her are Mahatma Gandhi, Malcolm X, Eleanor Roosevelt, Jan Hus, Rosa Luxemburg, and Henry Dunant. After her are Helen Keller, Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Martin Luther King Jr., Jean-Paul Marat, Claus von Stauffenberg, and Aung San Suu Kyi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Mother Teresa ranks 1. After her are Akira Kurosawa, Jacques Cousteau, Giuseppe Meazza, Ingrid of Sweden, Robert K. Merton, Irena Sendler, Gloria Stuart, Jean Genet, Paulette Goddard, Katherine Oppenheimer, and Django Reinhardt. Among people deceased in 1997, Mother Teresa ranks 1. After her are Deng Xiaoping, James Stewart, Diana, Princess of Wales, Jacques Cousteau, Viktor Frankl, Jeanne Calment, Mobutu Sese Seko, Toshiro Mifune, Victor Vasarely, Gianni Versace, and Israel Kamakawiwoʻole.

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In North Macedonia

Among people born in North Macedonia, Mother Teresa ranks 2 out of 156. Before her are Justinian I (482). After her are Baba Vanga (1911), Justin I (450), Theodahad (480), Kiro Gligorov (1917), Esma Redžepova (1943), Nexhmije Hoxha (1921), Sigeric (370), Ljubiša Samardžić (1936), Stobaeus (401), and Dragoslav Šekularac (1937).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In North Macedonia

Among social activists born in North Macedonia, Mother Teresa ranks 1. After her are Parashqevi Qiriazi (1880).

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