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Omar Mukhtar

1858 - 1931

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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 an Imam and leader of native resistance in Cyrenaica (currently Eastern Libya) under the Senussids, against the Italian colonization of Libya. A teacher-turned-general, Omar was a prominent figure of the Senussi movement and is considered the national hero of Libya and a symbol of resistance in the Arab and Islamic worlds. Beginning in 1911, he organised and 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 804,353 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Omar Mukhtar is the 29th most popular social activist (down from 28th in 2019), the 7th most popular biography from Libya 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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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 49

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.30

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Omar Mukhtar ranks 29 out of 840. Before him are Thomas Müntzer, Olympe de Gouges, Charlotte Corday, Guy Fawkes, Irena Sendler, and Simon bar Kokhba. After him are Emily Greene Balch, Hassan al-Banna, Élie Ducommun, Sadako Sasaki, Emiliano Zapata, and Lady Godiva.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1858, Omar Mukhtar ranks 10. Before him are Selma Lagerlöf, Theodore Roosevelt, Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, Gustaf V of Sweden, Rudolf Diesel, and Georg Simmel. After him are Emmeline Pankhurst, Giuseppe Peano, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Christiaan Eijkman, Charles de Foucauld, and Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein. Among people deceased in 1931, Omar Mukhtar ranks 7. Before him are Thomas Edison, Gustave Le Bon, Khalil Gibran, Anna Pavlova, Otto Wallach, and Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca. After him are Albert A. Michelson, Arthur Schnitzler, Geli Raubal, Lili Elbe, Joseph Joffre, and George Herbert Mead.

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In Libya

Among people born in Libya, Omar Mukhtar ranks 7 out of 76. Before him are Eratosthenes (-276), Muammar Gaddafi (1942), Mark the Evangelist (10), Septimius Severus (145), Arius (256), and Aristippus (-434). After him are Simon of Cyrene (-100), Callimachus (-310), Idris of Libya (1889), Pope Victor I (100), Khalifa Haftar (1943), and Carneades (-214).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Libya

Among social activists born in Libya, Omar Mukhtar ranks 1. 

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