SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Rigoberta Menchú

1959 - Today

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Rigoberta Menchú Tum (Spanish: [riɣoˈβeɾta menˈtʃu]; born January 9, 1959) is a K'iche' Guatemalan human rights activist, feminist, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Menchú has dedicated her life to publicizing the rights of Guatemala's Indigenous peoples during and after the Guatemalan Civil War (1960–1996), and to promoting Indigenous rights internationally. She received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992 and the Prince of Asturias Award in 1998, in addition to other prestigious awards. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rigoberta Menchú has received more than 1,195,796 page views. Her biography is available in 74 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 73 in 2019). Rigoberta Menchú is the 165th most popular social activist (down from 164th in 2019), the 3rd most popular biography from Guatemala and the most popular Guatemalan Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Rigoberta Menchú ranks 165 out of 840. Before her are Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, Rudi Dutschke, Alexander Pechersky, Mordechai Vanunu, Maria Spiridonova, and Frederick Douglass. After her are Otoya Yamaguchi, René Just Haüy, Kittur Chennamma, Al-Shaykh Al-Mufid, Vladimir Bukovsky, and Emilie Schindler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Rigoberta Menchú ranks 43. Before her are Vahagn Khachaturyan, Michel Preud'homme, Florence Griffith Joyner, Sarah, Duchess of York, Li Qiang, and Sade. After her are Gerhard Berger, Kyle MacLachlan, Moza bint Nasser, Vincent D'Onofrio, Anne Hidalgo, and Morten Harket.

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In Guatemala

Among people born in Guatemala, Rigoberta Menchú ranks 3 out of 44. Before her are Miguel Ángel Asturias (1899), and Jacobo Árbenz (1913). After her are Efraín Ríos Montt (1926), Carlos Castillo Armas (1914), Alejandro Giammattei (1956), Juan José Arévalo (1904), Jorge Ubico (1878), Rafael Carrera (1814), Otto Pérez Molina (1950), Álvaro Colom (1951), and Oscar Isaac (1979).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Guatemala

Among social activists born in Guatemala, Rigoberta Menchú ranks 1. After her are Norma Cruz (1962).

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