Pancho Villa

Pancho Villa (1878-1923) was a Mexican military commander who was a key figure during the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920). Later in that period, he conducted border raids on the United States of America. This gained him further notoriety as the US failed to capture him. He left politics in 1920, as a condition of amnesty with the prevailing faction, and was assassinated in 1923. 
Villa remains an iconic and popular figure in Mexican and border culture, celebrated in folk songs (corridos), fiction, later monuments and statues, and many restaurants on either side of the Rio Grande. His stash house in El Paso, Texas was restored, with a plaque, in 2019.
Cinematic depictions date to the silent film era, while later portrayals include Yul Brynner in Villa Rides (1968), Telly Savalas in Pancho Villa (1972), and Antonio Banderas in the HBO movie And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (2003).
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* Pancho Villa is one of the laundry list of luminaries name dropped by The Count in Sesame Street Episode 0899, as deliberate wrong guesses while playing "guess who?"
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