1871 - 1919
Rosa Luxemburg (German: [ˈʁoːza ˈlʊksəmbʊʁk] (listen); Polish: Róża Luksemburg; also Rozalia Luksenburg; 5 March 1871 – 15 January 1919) was a Polish Marxist, philosopher, economist, anti-war activist and revolutionary socialist who became a naturalized German citizen at the age of 28. Successively, she was a member of the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL), the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), the Independent Social Democratic Party (USPD) and the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). After the SPD supported German involvement in World War I in 1915, Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht co-founded the anti-war Spartacus League (Spartakusbund) which eventually became the KPD. During the November Revolution, she co-founded the newspaper Die Rote Fahne (The Red Flag), the central organ of the Spartacist movement. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rosa Luxemburg has received more than 2,617,181 page views. Her biography is available in 126 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 123 in 2019). Rosa Luxemburg is the 5th most popular social activist, the 6th most popular biography from Poland (up from 7th in 2019) and the most popular Polish Social Activist.
Rosa Luxemburg was a Polish-born Marxist theorist and politician. She was a co-founder of the Communist Party of Germany and a leader of the Spartacist uprising.
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Among social activists, Rosa Luxemburg ranks 5 out of 544. Before her are Che Guevara, Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, and Malcolm X. After her are 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 1871, Rosa Luxemburg ranks 1. After her are Marcel Proust, Ernest Rutherford, Friedrich Ebert, Alexander Scriabin, Karl Liebknecht, Paul Valéry, Guangxu Emperor, Pietro Badoglio, Heinrich Mann, Theodore Dreiser, and Baroness Mary Vetsera. Among people deceased in 1919, Rosa Luxemburg ranks 1. After her are Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Theodore Roosevelt, Ernst Haeckel, Karl Liebknecht, Emiliano Zapata, Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Emil Fischer, Andrew Carnegie, Ruggero Leoncavallo, John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, and Gojong of Korea.
1871 - 1919
HPI: 86.39
Rank: 1
1871 - 1922
HPI: 85.90
Rank: 2
1871 - 1937
HPI: 84.88
Rank: 3
1871 - 1925
HPI: 79.03
Rank: 4
1871 - 1915
HPI: 78.42
Rank: 5
1871 - 1919
HPI: 78.22
Rank: 6
1871 - 1945
HPI: 77.47
Rank: 7
1871 - 1908
HPI: 76.84
Rank: 8
1871 - 1956
HPI: 76.54
Rank: 9
1871 - 1950
HPI: 76.08
Rank: 10
1871 - 1945
HPI: 74.69
Rank: 11
1871 - 1889
HPI: 74.57
Rank: 12
1871 - 1919
HPI: 86.39
Rank: 1
1841 - 1919
HPI: 85.43
Rank: 2
1858 - 1919
HPI: 82.10
Rank: 3
1834 - 1919
HPI: 81.24
Rank: 4
1871 - 1919
HPI: 78.22
Rank: 5
1879 - 1919
HPI: 78.15
Rank: 6
1857 - 1919
HPI: 78.09
Rank: 7
1852 - 1919
HPI: 78.06
Rank: 8
1835 - 1919
HPI: 76.97
Rank: 9
1857 - 1919
HPI: 76.69
Rank: 10
1842 - 1919
HPI: 76.60
Rank: 11
1852 - 1919
HPI: 76.47
Rank: 12
Among people born in Poland, Rosa Luxemburg ranks 6 out of 1,231. Before her are Nicolaus Copernicus (1473), Frédéric Chopin (1810), Marie Curie (1867), Pope John Paul II (1920), and Arthur Schopenhauer (1788). After her are Catherine the Great (1762), Paul von Hindenburg (1847), David Ben-Gurion (1886), L. L. Zamenhof (1859), Heinz Guderian (1888), and Lech Wałęsa (1943).
1473 - 1543
HPI: 93.51
Rank: 1
1810 - 1849
HPI: 91.60
Rank: 2
1867 - 1934
HPI: 90.85
Rank: 3
1920 - 2005
HPI: 89.13
Rank: 4
1788 - 1860
HPI: 88.67
Rank: 5
1871 - 1919
HPI: 86.39
Rank: 6
1762 - 1796
HPI: 86.23
Rank: 7
1847 - 1934
HPI: 84.01
Rank: 8
1886 - 1973
HPI: 83.25
Rank: 9
1859 - 1917
HPI: 82.95
Rank: 10
1888 - 1954
HPI: 82.66
Rank: 11
1943 - Present
HPI: 82.46
Rank: 12
Among social activists born in Poland, Rosa Luxemburg ranks 1. After her are Irena Sendler (1910), Ferdinand Lassalle (1825), Mordechai Anielewicz (1919), Leopold Trepper (1904), Jan Karski (1914), Jan Gotlib Bloch (1836), Ryszard Siwiec (1909), and Ernestine Rose (1810).
1871 - 1919
HPI: 86.39
Rank: 1
1910 - 2008
HPI: 80.97
Rank: 2
1825 - 1864
HPI: 76.68
Rank: 3
1919 - 1943
HPI: 70.18
Rank: 4
1904 - 1982
HPI: 68.60
Rank: 5
1914 - 2000
HPI: 68.49
Rank: 6
1836 - 1902
HPI: 65.00
Rank: 7
1909 - 1968
HPI: 64.82
Rank: 8
1810 - 1892
HPI: 54.34
Rank: 9