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Benjamin Mkapa

1938 - 2020

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Benjamin William Mkapa (12 November 1938 – 24 July 2020) was the third president of Tanzania, in office from 1995 to 2005. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Benjamin Mkapa has received more than 454,226 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Benjamin Mkapa is the 6,779th most popular politician (up from 7,761st in 2019), the 4th most popular biography from Tanzania (up from 6th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Tanzanian Politician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 450k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 63.15

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 44

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Benjamin Mkapa ranks 6,779 out of 19,576. Before him are Michael I Komnenos Doukas, Mus'ab ibn al-Zubayr, Bola Tinubu, Danielle Mitterrand, Peire Vidal, and Joan of Valois, Queen of Navarre. After him are Guy Verhofstadt, Dietrich, Count of Oldenburg, Sigobert the Lame, Julius Dorpmüller, Mirza Muhammad Haidar Dughlat, and Al-Hakim I.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Benjamin Mkapa ranks 129. Before him are Oscar Robertson, Takehiko Kawanishi, Bill Withers, Vakhtang Kikabidze, Marien Ngouabi, and Hermann Nitsch. After him are Yuri Temirkanov, Anne Perry, Vasyl Stus, Shotaro Ishinomori, Karel Svoboda, and Patrick Bauchau. Among people deceased in 2020, Benjamin Mkapa ranks 117. Before him are Pascal Lissouba, Mory Kanté, John Horton Conway, David Prowse, Bill Withers, and Jack Charlton. After him are Daniel arap Moi, George Floyd, Ilija Petković, Wilford Brimley, James Randi, and Alejandro Sabella.

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In Tanzania

Among people born in Tanzania, Benjamin Mkapa ranks 4 out of 39. Before him are Freddie Mercury (1946), Abdulrazak Gurnah (1948), and Julius Nyerere (1922). After him are Jakaya Kikwete (1951), Samia Suluhu Hassan (1960), Ali Hassan Mwinyi (1925), Laurean Rugambwa (1912), Tippu Tip (1837), Jamshid bin Abdullah of Zanzibar (1929), Khalid bin Barghash of Zanzibar (1874), and Majid bin Said of Zanzibar (1834).

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Among POLITICIANS In Tanzania

Among politicians born in Tanzania, Benjamin Mkapa ranks 2. Before him are Julius Nyerere (1922). After him are Jakaya Kikwete (1951), Samia Suluhu Hassan (1960), Ali Hassan Mwinyi (1925), Tippu Tip (1837), Jamshid bin Abdullah of Zanzibar (1929), Khalid bin Barghash of Zanzibar (1874), Majid bin Said of Zanzibar (1834), Mizengo Pinda (1948), Edward Lowassa (1953), and John Magufuli (1959).

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