SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Carlos Fonseca

1936 - 1976

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Carlos Fonseca Amador (23 June 1936 – 8 November 1976) was a Nicaraguan professor, politician, writer and revolutionary who was one of the founders of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN). Fonseca was later killed in the mountains of the Zelaya Department, Nicaragua, three years before the FSLN took power. He has posthumously received the titles of National Hero of Nicaragua and Commander in Chief of the Sandinista Popular Revolution. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Carlos Fonseca is the 457th most popular social activist, the 22nd most popular biography from Nicaragua and the 2nd most popular Nicaraguan Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Carlos Fonseca ranks 457 out of 840. Before him are Lynching of Jesse Washington, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Jason Moore, Phyllis Schlafly, Bogaletch Gebre, and Mary McLeod Bethune. After him are Iosif Grigulevich, Petro Grigorenko, Giuseppe Pinelli, Gotō Shōjirō, Eugene V. Debs, and Irom Chanu Sharmila.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Carlos Fonseca ranks 340. Before him are Scott LaFaro, Carlos Mota Pinto, Michel Jazy, Nutan, Conchita Bautista, and Òscar Ribas Reig. After him are James C. Scott, Sancho Gracia, Klaus Doldinger, Nicol Williamson, Michel Rousseau, and German Apukhtin. Among people deceased in 1976, Carlos Fonseca ranks 174. Before him are Hamit Kaplan, Lily Pons, Edith Evans, Walter Piston, Percy Faith, and Mark Tobey. After him are Alfred Landé, Bertha Lutz, Nikoloz Muskhelishvili, Milena Rudnytska, Matthias Kaburek, and Alfons Rebane.

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In Nicaragua

Among people born in Nicaragua, Carlos Fonseca ranks 22 out of 34. Before him are Sergio Ramírez (1942), Gioconda Belli (1948), José Santos Zelaya (1853), Emiliano Chamorro Vargas (1871), Juan Bautista Sacasa (1874), and Edén Pastora (1936). After him are Alexis Argüello (1952), José María Moncada (1870), Carlos José Solórzano (1860), Rafael Ángel Calderón Fournier (1949), René Schick (1909), and Daniela Torres (1990).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Nicaragua

Among social activists born in Nicaragua, Carlos Fonseca ranks 2. Before him are Augusto César Sandino (1895).

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