1918 - 2013
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (; Xhosa: [xolíɬaɬa mandɛ̂ːla]; 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid activist and politician who served as the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's first black head of state and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election. His government focused on dismantling the legacy of apartheid by fostering racial reconciliation. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nelson Mandela has received more than 31,687,524 page views. His biography is available in 212 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 210 in 2019). Nelson Mandela is the 3rd most popular social activist (down from 2nd in 2019), the most popular biography from South Africa and the most popular South African Social Activist.
Nelson Mandela is most famous for his role in the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa. He spent 27 years in prison for his activism and was released in 1990.
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Among social activists, Nelson Mandela ranks 3 out of 538. Before him are Che Guevara and Mahatma Gandhi. After him are Malcolm X, Jan Hus, Rosa Luxemburg, Mother Teresa, Henry Dunant, Eleanor Roosevelt, Martin Luther King Jr., Helen Keller, and Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi.
1928 - 1967
HPI: 90.65
Rank: 1
1869 - 1948
HPI: 88.49
Rank: 2
1918 - 2013
HPI: 88.40
Rank: 3
1925 - 1965
HPI: 83.94
Rank: 4
1369 - 1415
HPI: 81.44
Rank: 5
1871 - 1919
HPI: 80.96
Rank: 6
1910 - 1997
HPI: 80.90
Rank: 7
1828 - 1910
HPI: 80.37
Rank: 8
1884 - 1962
HPI: 79.77
Rank: 9
1929 - 1968
HPI: 78.22
Rank: 10
1880 - 1968
HPI: 77.80
Rank: 11
1746 - 1827
HPI: 76.85
Rank: 12
Among people born in 1918, Nelson Mandela ranks 1. After him are Nicolae Ceaușescu, Ingmar Bergman, Anwar Sadat, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Richard Feynman, Robert Wadlow, Rita Hayworth, Ken Miles, Louis Althusser, and Helmut Schmidt. Among people deceased in 2013, Nelson Mandela ranks 1. After him are Margaret Thatcher, Mikhail Kalashnikov, Doris Lessing, Hugo Chávez, Fawzia Fuad of Egypt, Võ Nguyên Giáp, Peter O'Toole, Jorge Rafael Videla, Frederick Sanger, Paul Walker, and Tom Clancy.
1918 - 2013
HPI: 88.40
Rank: 1
1918 - 1989
HPI: 82.35
Rank: 2
1918 - 2007
HPI: 78.99
Rank: 3
1918 - 1981
HPI: 77.47
Rank: 4
1918 - 1970
HPI: 77.38
Rank: 5
1918 - 2008
HPI: 76.67
Rank: 6
1918 - 1988
HPI: 75.46
Rank: 7
1918 - 1940
HPI: 70.93
Rank: 8
1918 - 1987
HPI: 70.49
Rank: 9
1918 - 1966
HPI: 70.43
Rank: 10
1918 - 1990
HPI: 70.23
Rank: 11
1918 - 2015
HPI: 69.95
Rank: 12
1918 - 2013
HPI: 88.40
Rank: 1
1925 - 2013
HPI: 83.20
Rank: 2
1919 - 2013
HPI: 76.61
Rank: 3
1919 - 2013
HPI: 71.31
Rank: 4
1954 - 2013
HPI: 71.24
Rank: 5
1921 - 2013
HPI: 71.11
Rank: 6
1911 - 2013
HPI: 69.97
Rank: 7
1932 - 2013
HPI: 69.82
Rank: 8
1925 - 2013
HPI: 69.44
Rank: 9
1918 - 2013
HPI: 68.29
Rank: 10
1973 - 2013
HPI: 67.95
Rank: 11
1947 - 2013
HPI: 67.86
Rank: 12
Among people born in South Africa, Nelson Mandela ranks 1 out of 374. After him are J. R. R. Tolkien (1892), Elon Musk (1971), Sarah Baartman (1788), Desmond Tutu (1931), J. M. Coetzee (1940), Shaka (1787), Christiaan Barnard (1922), F. W. de Klerk (1936), Nadine Gordimer (1923), Miriam Makeba (1932), and Charlize Theron (1975).
1918 - 2013
HPI: 88.40
Rank: 1
1892 - 1973
HPI: 88.02
Rank: 2
1971 - Present
HPI: 80.35
Rank: 3
1788 - 1815
HPI: 70.75
Rank: 4
1931 - 2021
HPI: 70.65
Rank: 5
1940 - Present
HPI: 69.57
Rank: 6
1787 - 1828
HPI: 69.03
Rank: 7
1922 - 2001
HPI: 68.13
Rank: 8
1936 - 2021
HPI: 67.53
Rank: 9
1923 - 2014
HPI: 66.39
Rank: 10
1932 - 2008
HPI: 66.28
Rank: 11
1975 - Present
HPI: 64.53
Rank: 12
Among social activists born in South Africa, Nelson Mandela ranks 1. After him are Steve Biko (1946), Eugène Terre'Blanche (1941), Evelyn Mase (1922), Frances Ames (1920), Devdas Gandhi (1900), Denis Goldberg (1933), Beyers Naudé (1915), Bram Fischer (1908), Albertina Sisulu (1918), Kumi Naidoo (1965), and Ayakha Melithafa (2002).
1918 - 2013
HPI: 88.40
Rank: 1
1946 - 1977
HPI: 59.96
Rank: 2
1941 - 2010
HPI: 53.38
Rank: 3
1922 - 2004
HPI: 49.36
Rank: 4
1920 - 2002
HPI: 47.88
Rank: 5
1900 - 1957
HPI: 46.10
Rank: 6
1933 - 2020
HPI: 45.92
Rank: 7
1915 - 2004
HPI: 41.40
Rank: 8
1908 - 1975
HPI: 41.20
Rank: 9
1918 - 2011
HPI: 40.54
Rank: 10
1965 - Present
HPI: 36.49
Rank: 11
2002 - Present
HPI: 19.20
Rank: 12