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Omar Mukhtar

1858 - 1931

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Omar Mukhtar is the 39th most popular social activist (down from 29th in 2019), the 11th most popular biography from Libya (down from 7th in 2019) and the most popular Libyan Social Activist.

Omar Mukhtar is most famous for his role in the Libyan resistance against the Italian invasion of Libya.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Omar Mukhtar ranks 39 out of 840. Before him are Emiliano Zapata, Bacha Khan, Toussaint Louverture, Jan Palach, Ferdinand Lassalle, and Irena Sendler. After him are Simon Wiesenthal, Sadako Sasaki, Lady Godiva, Simon bar Kokhba, Olympe de Gouges, and Bhagat Singh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1858, Omar Mukhtar ranks 12. Before him are Theodore Roosevelt, Rudolf Diesel, Gustaf V of Sweden, Georg Simmel, Christiaan Eijkman, and Jagadish Chandra Bose. After him are Giuseppe Peano, Emmeline Pankhurst, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Charles de Foucauld, Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, and Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont. Among people deceased in 1931, Omar Mukhtar ranks 9. Before him are Albert A. Michelson, Otto Wallach, Gustave Le Bon, Anna Pavlova, Louise, Princess Royal, and Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca. After him are Arthur Schnitzler, Lili Elbe, Bhagat Singh, Hermann Müller, Carl Nielsen, and Joseph Joffre.

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In Libya

Among people born in Libya, Omar Mukhtar ranks 11 out of 76. Before him are Arius (256), Aristippus (-434), Simon of Cyrene (-100), Callimachus (-310), Berenice II of Egypt (-267), and Pope Victor I (100). After him are Idris of Libya (1889), Khalifa Haftar (1943), Carneades (-214), Synesius (370), Mustafa Abdul Jalil (1952), and Hegesias of Cyrene (-400).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Libya

Among social activists born in Libya, Omar Mukhtar ranks 1. 

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