1858 - 1931
Omar al-Mukhṭār Muḥammad bin Farḥāṭ al-Manifī (Arabic: عُمَر الْمُخْتَار مُحَمَّد بِن فَرْحَات الْمَنِفِي; 20 August 1858 – 16 September 1931), called The Lion of the Desert, known among the colonial Italians as Matari of the Mnifa, was the leader of native resistance in Cyrenaica (currently Eastern Libya) under the Senussids, against the Italian colonization of Libya. A teacher-turned-general, Omar was also a prominent figure of the Senussi movement, and he is considered the national hero of Libya and a symbol of resistance in the Arab and Islamic worlds. Beginning in 1911, he organised and, for nearly twenty years, led the Libyan resistance movement against the Italian colonial empire during the First and Second Italo-Senussi Wars. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Omar Mukhtar has received more than 763,506 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Omar Mukhtar is the 27th most popular social activist (up from 38th in 2019), the 7th most popular biography from Libya (up from 10th in 2019) and the most popular Libyan Social Activist.
Omar Mukhtar is most famous for his role in the Libyan resistance against the Italian invasion of Libya.
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Among social activists, Omar Mukhtar ranks 27 out of 538. Before him are Charlotte Corday, Olympe de Gouges, Irena Sendler, Bertha von Suttner, Thomas Müntzer, and Emiliano Zapata. After him are Martin Niemöller, Pheidippides, Élie Ducommun, Ferdinand Lassalle, Simon Wiesenthal, and Sadako Sasaki.
1768 - 1793
HPI: 72.82
Rank: 21
1748 - 1793
HPI: 71.95
Rank: 22
1910 - 2008
HPI: 71.83
Rank: 23
1843 - 1914
HPI: 71.07
Rank: 24
1489 - 1525
HPI: 70.52
Rank: 25
1879 - 1919
HPI: 70.52
Rank: 26
1858 - 1931
HPI: 70.27
Rank: 27
1892 - 1984
HPI: 70.18
Rank: 28
600 BC - 490 BC
HPI: 69.86
Rank: 29
1833 - 1906
HPI: 69.77
Rank: 30
1825 - 1864
HPI: 69.74
Rank: 31
1908 - 2005
HPI: 69.41
Rank: 32
1943 - 1955
HPI: 69.39
Rank: 33
Among people born in 1858, Omar Mukhtar ranks 10. Before him are Selma Lagerlöf, Theodore Roosevelt, Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, Rudolf Diesel, Georg Simmel, and Gustaf V of Sweden. After him are Emmeline Pankhurst, Giuseppe Peano, Christiaan Eijkman, Charles de Foucauld, Franz Boas, and Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein. Among people deceased in 1931, Omar Mukhtar ranks 6. Before him are Thomas Edison, Gustave Le Bon, Khalil Gibran, Lili Elbe, and Anna Pavlova. After him are Otto Wallach, Geli Raubal, Arthur Schnitzler, Albert A. Michelson, Erik Axel Karlfeldt, and George Herbert Mead.
1858 - 1940
HPI: 77.70
Rank: 4
1858 - 1919
HPI: 77.31
Rank: 5
1858 - 1889
HPI: 76.95
Rank: 6
1858 - 1913
HPI: 76.24
Rank: 7
1858 - 1918
HPI: 72.38
Rank: 8
1858 - 1950
HPI: 72.06
Rank: 9
1858 - 1931
HPI: 70.27
Rank: 10
1858 - 1928
HPI: 68.06
Rank: 11
1858 - 1932
HPI: 67.42
Rank: 12
1858 - 1930
HPI: 67.11
Rank: 13
1858 - 1916
HPI: 66.39
Rank: 14
1858 - 1942
HPI: 66.39
Rank: 15
1858 - 1921
HPI: 66.15
Rank: 16
1847 - 1931
HPI: 90.99
Rank: 1
1841 - 1931
HPI: 73.87
Rank: 2
1883 - 1931
HPI: 73.49
Rank: 3
1882 - 1931
HPI: 72.62
Rank: 4
1881 - 1931
HPI: 72.06
Rank: 5
1858 - 1931
HPI: 70.27
Rank: 6
1847 - 1931
HPI: 69.95
Rank: 7
1908 - 1931
HPI: 69.35
Rank: 8
1862 - 1931
HPI: 69.25
Rank: 9
1852 - 1931
HPI: 69.10
Rank: 10
1864 - 1931
HPI: 68.68
Rank: 11
1863 - 1931
HPI: 68.25
Rank: 12
Among people born in Libya, Omar Mukhtar ranks 7 out of 64. Before him are Eratosthenes (-276), Muammar Gaddafi (1942), Mark the Evangelist (10), Arius (256), Septimius Severus (145), and Aristippus (-434). After him are Callimachus (-310), Idris of Libya (1889), Simon of Cyrene (-100), Pope Victor I (100), Carneades (-214), and Khalifa Haftar (1943).
276 BC - 194 BC
HPI: 84.59
Rank: 1
1942 - 2011
HPI: 82.87
Rank: 2
10 - 68
HPI: 77.73
Rank: 3
256 - 336
HPI: 76.84
Rank: 4
145 - 211
HPI: 76.38
Rank: 5
434 BC - 355 BC
HPI: 73.51
Rank: 6
1858 - 1931
HPI: 70.27
Rank: 7
310 BC - 240 BC
HPI: 69.42
Rank: 8
1889 - 1983
HPI: 68.81
Rank: 9
100 BC - 100
HPI: 67.85
Rank: 10
100 - 199
HPI: 66.41
Rank: 11
214 BC - 129 BC
HPI: 65.25
Rank: 12
1943 - Present
HPI: 64.91
Rank: 13
Among social activists born in Libya, Omar Mukhtar ranks 1.