The Most Famous
SOCIAL ACTIVISTS from Libya
This page contains a list of the greatest Libyan Social Activists. The pantheon dataset contains 840 Social Activists, 2 of which were born in Libya. This makes Libya the birth place of the 73rd most number of Social Activists behind Albania, and Kyrgyzstan.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Libyan Social Activists of all time. This list of famous Libyan Social Activists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. Omar Mukhtar (1858 - 1931)
With an HPI of 74.73, Omar Mukhtar is the most famous Libyan Social Activist. His biography has been translated into 50 different languages on wikipedia.
ʿUmar al-Mukhtār Muḥammad bin Farḥāt 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 a Libyan revolutionary and Imam who led the 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. Externally, he also fought against the French colonization of Chad and the British occupation of Egypt. After many attempts, the Italian Armed Forces managed to capture Al-Mukhtar near Slonta when he was wounded in battle by Libyan colonial troops, and hanged him in 1931 after he refused to surrender.
2. Fathi Terbil (b. 2000)
With an HPI of 31.08, Fathi Terbil is the 2nd most famous Libyan Social Activist. His biography has been translated into 16 different languages.
Fathi Terbil, also romanized as Fatih Turbel, (Arabic: فتحي تربل) is a Libyan lawyer and human rights activist and member of the former National Transitional Council representing Libyan youth. He represents the relatives of over 1,000 prisoners killed by Libyan security forces in Abu Salim Prison in 1996. He is also the Youth and Sports Minister for the Interim Government. Fathi Terbil's arrest in February 2011 sparked a demonstration in Benghazi on 15 February by around 200 relatives of the deceased prisoners, which began the Libyan Civil War. He was subsequently said to have been freed. On 20 February, Terbil told Al Jazeera that security forces - sometimes firing from civilian cars without license plates - had killed dozens, perhaps hundreds, of protestors in Benghazi. On 30 May 2011, he was awarded the Ludovic-Trarieux International Human Rights Prize ("The award given by lawyers to a lawyer"), given each year to a lawyer who throughout his or her career has illustrated, by activity or suffering, the defence of human rights in the world. He was appointed to the Libyan National Transitional Council representing youth after being one of the first arrested in street protests during the Libyan Civil War on 15 February 2011 and later freed.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Libyan social activists born between 1858 and 2000. Of these 2, 1 (50.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Libyan social activists include Fathi Terbil. The most famous deceased Libyan social activists include Omar Mukhtar. As of April 2024, 1 new Libyan social activists have been added to Pantheon including Fathi Terbil.
