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Che Guevara

1928 - 1967

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Ernesto "Che" Guevara (14 May 1928 – 9 October 1967) was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, politician and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized visage has become a countercultural symbol of rebellion and global insignia in popular culture. As a young medical student, Guevara travelled throughout South America and was appalled by the poverty, hunger, and disease he witnessed. His burgeoning desire to help overturn what he saw as the capitalist exploitation of Latin America by the United States prompted his involvement in Guatemala's social reforms under President Jacobo Árbenz, whose eventual CIA-assisted overthrow at the behest of the United Fruit Company solidified Guevara's political ideology. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Che Guevara is the 2nd most popular social activist (down from 1st in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Argentina (down from 1st in 2019) and the most popular Argentinean Social Activist.

Che Guevara is most famous for his role in the Cuban Revolution, which led to the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista and the establishment of a socialist state.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Che Guevara ranks 2 out of 840. Before him are Mahatma Gandhi. After him are Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, Malcolm X, Eleanor Roosevelt, Rosa Luxemburg, Jan Hus, Henry Dunant, Helen Keller, and Aung San Suu Kyi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Che Guevara ranks 1. After him are John Forbes Nash Jr., James Watson, Andy Warhol, Hosni Mubarak, Ennio Morricone, Stanley Kubrick, Ariel Sharon, Noam Chomsky, Eduard Shevardnadze, Jean-Marie Le Pen, and Chinghiz Aitmatov. Among people deceased in 1967, Che Guevara ranks 1. After him are J. Robert Oppenheimer, Puyi, Konrad Adenauer, René Magritte, Vivien Leigh, John Nance Garner, Albert Lutuli, Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, Ed White, Spencer Tracy, and Mohammad Mosaddegh.

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In Argentina

Among people born in Argentina, Che Guevara ranks 2 out of 1,154. Before him are Pope Francis (1936). After him are Jorge Luis Borges (1899), Diego Maradona (1960), Alfredo Di Stéfano (1926), Eva Perón (1919), Juan Perón (1895), Juan Manuel Fangio (1911), Astor Piazzolla (1921), Jorge Rafael Videla (1925), Isabel Martínez de Perón (1931), and José de San Martín (1778).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Argentina

Among social activists born in Argentina, Che Guevara ranks 1. After him are Adolfo Pérez Esquivel (1931), Virginia Bolten (1876), Azucena Villaflor (1924), Estela de Carlotto (1930), Hebe de Bonafini (1928), Elvira Rawson de Dellepiane (1867), Maria Verónica Reina (1964), Susana Trimarco (1954), and Nicole Becker (2001).

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