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Pancho Villa

1878 - 1923

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Francisco "Pancho" Villa (UK: PAN-choh VEE-ə, US: PAHN-choh VEE-(y)ə, Spanish: [ˈpantʃo ˈβiʎa]; born José Doroteo Arango Arámbula; 5 June 1878 – 20 July 1923) was a Mexican revolutionary and prominent figure in the Mexican Revolution. He was a key figure in the revolutionary movement that forced out President Porfirio Díaz and brought Francisco I. Madero to power in 1911. When Madero was ousted by a coup led by General Victoriano Huerta in February 1913, Villa joined the anti-Huerta forces in the Constitutionalist Army led by Venustiano Carranza. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pancho Villa has received more than 6,974,238 page views. His biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 58 in 2019). Pancho Villa is the 111th most popular military personnel (up from 139th in 2019), the 7th most popular biography from Mexico (up from 8th in 2019) and the most popular Mexican Military Personnel.

Pancho Villa was a Mexican revolutionary who led a number of armed rebellions against the Mexican government in the early 1900s. He was most famous for leading the Mexican Revolution, which was a major event in Mexican history.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Pancho Villa ranks 111 out of 2,058. Before him are Zhang Fei, Andrea Doria, Theodor Eicke, Perdiccas, Robert E. Lee, and Klaus Barbie. After him are Stilicho, Hans-Ulrich Rudel, Axel von Fersen the Younger, Louis-Nicolas Davout, Vasily Chuikov, and Cimon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Pancho Villa ranks 7. Before him are Lise Meitner, Janusz Korczak, Reza Shah, John B. Watson, Martin Buber, and Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia. After him are Werner von Blomberg, Gustav Stresemann, André Citroën, Pyotr Wrangel, Lucien Febvre, and Robert Walser. Among people deceased in 1923, Pancho Villa ranks 10. Before him are Vilfredo Pareto, Johannes Diderik van der Waals, John Venn, Princess Helena of the United Kingdom, Jaroslav Hašek, and Constantine I of Greece. After him are Warren G. Harding, Joaquín Sorolla, Pierre Loti, Dietrich Eckart, Julius Martov, and Damdin Sükhbaatar.

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In Mexico

Among people born in Mexico, Pancho Villa ranks 7 out of 729. Before him are Frida Kahlo (1907), Anthony Quinn (1915), Diego Rivera (1886), Moctezuma II (1466), Emiliano Zapata (1879), and Carlos Slim (1940). After him are Octavio Paz (1914), Porfirio Díaz (1830), Carlos Santana (1947), Cuauhtémoc (1495), Salma Hayek (1966), and Benito Juárez (1806).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Mexico

Among military personnels born in Mexico, Pancho Villa ranks 1. After him are Ignacio Allende (1769), Juan Aldama (1774), Juan de Salcedo (1549), and Comandanta Ramona (1960).

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