1918 - 2013
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (; Xhosa: [xolíɬaɬa mandɛ̂ːla]; 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, political leader and philanthropist who served as 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 tackling institutionalised racism and fostering racial reconciliation. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nelson Mandela has received more than 22,709,892 page views. His biography is available in 210 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 207 in 2019). Nelson Mandela is the 2nd most popular social activist, 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 2 out of 544. Before him are Che Guevara. After him are Mahatma Gandhi, Malcolm X, Rosa Luxemburg, Jan Hus, Mother Teresa, Eleanor Roosevelt, Henry Dunant, Martin Luther King Jr., Helen Keller, and Guy Fawkes.
1928 - 1967
HPI: 93.41
Rank: 1
1918 - 2013
HPI: 91.88
Rank: 2
1869 - 1948
HPI: 91.71
Rank: 3
1925 - 1965
HPI: 88.13
Rank: 4
1871 - 1919
HPI: 86.39
Rank: 5
1369 - 1415
HPI: 85.94
Rank: 6
1910 - 1997
HPI: 85.68
Rank: 7
1884 - 1962
HPI: 85.50
Rank: 8
1828 - 1910
HPI: 84.61
Rank: 9
1929 - 1968
HPI: 84.34
Rank: 10
1880 - 1968
HPI: 82.77
Rank: 11
1570 - 1606
HPI: 82.39
Rank: 12
Among people born in 1918, Nelson Mandela ranks 1. After him are Nicolae Ceaușescu, Ingmar Bergman, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Anwar Sadat, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Richard Feynman, Robert Wadlow, Kurt Waldheim, Louis Althusser, Leonard Bernstein, and Rita Hayworth. Among people deceased in 2013, Nelson Mandela ranks 1. After him are Margaret Thatcher, Mikhail Kalashnikov, Doris Lessing, Võ Nguyên Giáp, Hugo Chávez, Fawzia Fuad of Egypt, Peter O'Toole, Paul Walker, Joan Fontaine, Jorge Rafael Videla, and Frederick Sanger.
1918 - 2013
HPI: 91.88
Rank: 1
1918 - 1989
HPI: 86.71
Rank: 2
1918 - 2007
HPI: 83.84
Rank: 3
1918 - 1970
HPI: 83.26
Rank: 4
1918 - 1981
HPI: 82.94
Rank: 5
1918 - 2008
HPI: 82.30
Rank: 6
1918 - 1988
HPI: 80.61
Rank: 7
1918 - 1940
HPI: 78.88
Rank: 8
1918 - 2007
HPI: 78.03
Rank: 9
1918 - 1990
HPI: 77.55
Rank: 10
1918 - 1990
HPI: 77.44
Rank: 11
1918 - 1987
HPI: 77.17
Rank: 12
1918 - 2013
HPI: 91.88
Rank: 1
1925 - 2013
HPI: 86.06
Rank: 2
1919 - 2013
HPI: 79.92
Rank: 3
1919 - 2013
HPI: 78.68
Rank: 4
1911 - 2013
HPI: 78.10
Rank: 5
1954 - 2013
HPI: 77.73
Rank: 6
1921 - 2013
HPI: 77.63
Rank: 7
1932 - 2013
HPI: 77.21
Rank: 8
1973 - 2013
HPI: 76.85
Rank: 9
1917 - 2013
HPI: 76.48
Rank: 10
1925 - 2013
HPI: 76.41
Rank: 11
1918 - 2013
HPI: 75.13
Rank: 12
Among people born in South Africa, Nelson Mandela ranks 1 out of 312. After him are J. R. R. Tolkien (1892), J. M. Coetzee (1940), Sarah Baartman (1788), Shaka (1787), Nadine Gordimer (1923), Behati Prinsloo (1988), Elon Musk (1971), F. W. de Klerk (1936), Christiaan Barnard (1922), Desmond Tutu (1931), and Miriam Makeba (1932).
1918 - 2013
HPI: 91.88
Rank: 1
1892 - 1973
HPI: 91.11
Rank: 2
1940 - Present
HPI: 76.83
Rank: 3
1788 - 1815
HPI: 76.50
Rank: 4
1787 - 1828
HPI: 76.31
Rank: 5
1923 - 2014
HPI: 76.19
Rank: 6
1988 - Present
HPI: 75.68
Rank: 7
1971 - Present
HPI: 75.67
Rank: 8
1936 - Present
HPI: 75.67
Rank: 9
1922 - 2001
HPI: 75.04
Rank: 10
1931 - Present
HPI: 74.15
Rank: 11
1932 - 2008
HPI: 73.90
Rank: 12
Among social activists born in South Africa, Nelson Mandela ranks 1. After him are Steve Biko (1946), Eugène Terre'Blanche (1941), Devdas Gandhi (1900), Denis Goldberg (1933), Bram Fischer (1908), Frances Ames (1920), and Albertina Sisulu (1918).
1918 - 2013
HPI: 91.88
Rank: 1
1946 - 1977
HPI: 68.94
Rank: 2
1941 - 2010
HPI: 63.20
Rank: 3
1900 - 1957
HPI: 57.85
Rank: 4
1933 - 2020
HPI: 57.57
Rank: 5
1908 - 1975
HPI: 54.60
Rank: 6
1920 - 2002
HPI: 53.98
Rank: 7
1918 - 2011
HPI: 53.44
Rank: 8