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Bobby Sands

1954 - 1981

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Robert Gerard Sands (Irish: Roibeárd Gearóid Ó Seachnasaigh; 9 March 1954 – 5 May 1981) was a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) who died on hunger strike while imprisoned at HM Prison Maze in Northern Ireland. Sands helped to plan the 1976 Balmoral Furniture Company bombing in Dunmurry, which was followed by a gun battle with the Royal Ulster Constabulary. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bobby Sands has received more than 4,401,555 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Bobby Sands is the 10,448th most popular politician (down from 9,123rd in 2019), the 2,151st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,934th in 2019) and the 327th most popular British Politician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 4.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.18

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.25

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.50

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Bobby Sands ranks 10,448 out of 19,576. Before him are Liliana Segre, Lady Adela, Ang Mey, Elvira of Castile, Countess of Toulouse, Khamerernebty II, and Boso the Elder. After him are Kamehameha IV, Piyusti, Argishti II, Francesc Cambó, Aemilia Lepida, and Dragan Đokanović.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Bobby Sands ranks 155. Before him are Larry Wall, Peter MacNicol, Juliane Koepcke, Didier Six, Viktor Zolotov, and Will Patton. After him are Archduchess Marie Astrid of Austria, Jon Krakauer, Pascal Greggory, Bruce Sterling, Władysław Żmuda, and Henk ten Cate. Among people deceased in 1981, Bobby Sands ranks 104. Before him are Jim Davis, Zdeněk Burian, Roman Rudenko, Lanza del Vasto, Mariama Bâ, and Hermann Esser. After him are Norman Taurog, Pedro Henrique of Orléans-Braganza, Walter Heitler, Edward Lasker, Jaime Roldós Aguilera, and Ricardo Wolf.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Bobby Sands ranks 2,151 out of 8,785. Before him are Ken McArthur (1881), Geraldine James (1950), Jack Higgins (1929), Bob Anderson (1931), Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin (1914), and David Gemmell (1948). After him are Hilton Valentine (1943), Lewis Gilbert (1920), John Leslie (1766), Edmund Gunter (1581), Maryam d'Abo (1960), and Steve Jones (1955).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Bobby Sands ranks 327. Before him are Thomas Fairfax (1612), Edmund Crouchback (1245), Catherine Carey (1523), William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire (1748), Rosamund Clifford (1150), and Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin (1914). After him are Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone (1874), Henry Percy (1364), Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1884), Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1874), Joseph Lancaster (1778), and Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia (1924).

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