SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Leona Vicario

1789 - 1842

Photo of Leona Vicario

Icon of person Leona Vicario

María de la Soledad Leona Camila Vicario Fernández de San Salvador, best known as Leona Vicario (April 10, 1789 – August 21, 1842), was one of the most prominent figures of the Mexican War of Independence. She was dedicated to informing insurgents of movements in her home Mexico City, the capital of the viceroyalty. She was a member of Los Guadalupes, one of the earliest independence movements in New Spain. She financed the rebellion with her large fortune. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Leona Vicario is the 442nd most popular social activist (down from 429th in 2019), the 207th most popular biography from Mexico (down from 199th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Mexican Social Activist.

Memorability Metrics

Loading...

Page views of Leona Vicario by language

Loading...

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Leona Vicario ranks 442 out of 840. Before her are Theodor Loos, Massoud Rajavi, Nat Turner, François-Jean de la Barre, Nikolay Bauman, and William Howard Russell. After her are Afeni Shakur, Bhikaiji Cama, Otto Warmbier, Anna Louise Strong, Eugénie Cotton, and Melchora Aquino.

Most Popular Social Activists in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1789, Leona Vicario ranks 40. Before her are Franz Xaver Gabelsberger, Friedrich Silcher, Carlos Soublette, Bernhard Severin Ingemann, Peter Joseph Lenné, and Manuel de la Peña y Peña. After her are Gamzat-bek, Miguel Barragán, Cesare Balbo, Michel Félix Dunal, Thaddeus Bulgarin, and Joséphine Fodor. Among people deceased in 1842, Leona Vicario ranks 34. Before her are Pierre Baillot, Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, James Ivory, Thomas Arnold, Aylmer Bourke Lambert, and Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse. After her are Aleksey Koltsov, Wilhelm Gesenius, Henry Shrapnel, William Ellery Channing, Archibald Menzies, and William Hobson.

Others Born in 1789

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1842

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Mexico

Among people born in Mexico, Leona Vicario ranks 207 out of 729. Before her are Don Miguel Ruiz (1952), Lupita Nyong'o (1983), Sergio Pitol (1933), Alfredo del Águila (1935), Arturo de Córdova (1908), and Manuel de la Peña y Peña (1789). After her are Amado Nervo (1870), Diana Bracho (1944), José Mariano Salas (1797), Miguel Barragán (1789), Eulalio Gutiérrez (1881), and Canelo Álvarez (1990).

Others born in Mexico

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Mexico

Among social activists born in Mexico, Leona Vicario ranks 6. Before her are Emiliano Zapata (1879), Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla (1753), Subcomandante Marcos (1957), Ricardo Flores Magón (1874), and Miriam Rodríguez Martínez (1967). After her are Elvia Carrillo Puerto (1878), Lydia Cacho (1963), Leydy Pech (1965), Xiye Bastida (2002), and Guadalupe Campanur Tapia (1986).

Mexican born Social Activists

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous