SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Mother Teresa

1910 - 1997

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Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu (pronounced [bɔjaˈdʒiu]; 26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), better known as Mother Teresa (Albanian: Nënë Tereza), was an Albanian-Indian Catholic nun who, in 1950, founded the Missionaries of Charity. Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu (pronounced [aˈɲɛzə ˈɡɔndʒɛ bɔjaˈdʒiu]) was born in Skopje—at the time, part of the Ottoman Empire. After eighteen years, she moved to Ireland and then to India, where she lived most of her life. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mother Teresa has received more than 24,381,116 page views. Her biography is available in 135 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 134 in 2019). Mother Teresa is the 7th most popular social activist, the 2nd most popular biography from North Macedonia and the most popular 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.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 135

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.08

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.63

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Mother Teresa ranks 7 out of 538. Before her are Che Guevara, Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Malcolm X, Jan Hus, and Rosa Luxemburg. After her are Henry Dunant, Eleanor Roosevelt, Martin Luther King Jr., Helen Keller, Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, and Jean-Paul Marat.

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Contemporaries

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

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In North Macedonia

Among people born in North Macedonia, Mother Teresa ranks 2 out of 136. Before her are Justinian I (482). After her are Baba Vanga (1911), Justin I (450), Theodahad (480), Kiro Gligorov (1917), Nexhmije Hoxha (1921), Esma Redžepova (1943), Ljubiša Samardžić (1936), Lazar Koliševski (1914), Stevo Pendarovski (1963), 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. 

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