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Mother Teresa

1910 - 1997

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Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu (born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, Albanian: [aˈɲɛzə ˈɡɔndʒɛ bɔjaˈdʒi.u]; 26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), better known as Mother Teresa or Saint Mother Teresa, was an Albanian-Indian Catholic nun, founder of the Missionaries of Charity and is a Catholic saint. Born in Skopje, then part of the Ottoman Empire, she was raised in a devoutly Catholic family. At the age of 18, she moved to Ireland to join the Sisters of Loreto and later to India, where she lived most of her life and carried out her missionary work. On 4 September 2016, she was canonised by the Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 144 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 138 in 2024). Mother Teresa is the 3rd most popular social activist (up from 9th in 2024), the most popular biography from North Macedonia (up from 2nd in 2019) and the most popular Macedonian Social Activist.

Mother Teresa is most famous for founding the Missionaries of Charity, a religious congregation of Roman Catholic sisters who work with the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying. The congregation was founded in Calcutta, India in 1950.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Mother Teresa ranks 3 out of 840. Before her are Mahatma Gandhi, and Che Guevara. After her are 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 1910, Mother Teresa ranks 1. After her are Akira Kurosawa, Giuseppe Meazza, Jacques Cousteau, Ingrid of Sweden, Ramaswamy Venkataraman, Robert K. Merton, Archer Martin, Lee Byung-chul, Paulette Goddard, Dorothy Hodgkin, and Gloria Stuart. Among people deceased in 1997, Mother Teresa ranks 1. After her are Deng Xiaoping, James Stewart, Diana, Princess of Wales, Viktor Frankl, Toshiro Mifune, Anton LaVey, Jacques Cousteau, Jeanne Calment, Alexander R. Todd, Mobutu Sese Seko, and Gianni Versace.

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In North Macedonia

Among people born in North Macedonia, Mother Teresa ranks 1 out of 156. After her are Justinian I (482), Baba Vanga (1911), Justin I (450), Theodahad (480), Kiro Gligorov (1917), Esma Redžepova (1943), Nexhmije Hoxha (1921), Sigeric (370), Stobaeus (401), Agron (null), and Dragoslav Šekularac (1937).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In North Macedonia

Among social activists born in North Macedonia, Mother Teresa ranks 1. After her are Parashqevi Qiriazi (1880).

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