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Crazy Horse

1840 - 1877

Crazy Horse

Crazy Horse (Lakota: Tȟašúŋke Witkó in Standard Lakota Orthography, IPA: /tχaˈʃʊ̃kɛ witˈkɔ/, lit. ''His-Horse-Is-Crazy''; c. 1840 – September 5, 1877) was a Lakota war leader of the Oglala band in the 19th century. He took up arms against the United States federal government to fight against encroachment by white American settlers on Native American territory and to preserve the traditional way of life of the Lakota people. His participation in several famous battles of the Black Hills War on the northern Great Plains, among them the Fetterman Fight in 1866 in which he acted as a decoy and the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876 in which he led a war party to victory, earned him great respect from both his enemies and his own people. In September 1877, four months after surrendering to U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Crazy Horse has received more than 2,753,579 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia making him the 1,235th most popular politician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.8M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 67.00

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 50

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.83

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.06

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Crazy Horse ranks 1,229 out of 14,801. Before him are Frederick III, Elector of Saxony, Ludwig I of Bavaria, Berengar I of Italy, Eric XIV of Sweden, Eric Bloodaxe, and Seti II. After him are Millard Fillmore, Chulalongkorn, Eleftherios Venizelos, Ur-Nammu, Sariputta, and Henry I, Duke of Guise.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1840, Crazy Horse ranks 10. Before him are Auguste Rodin, Murad V, Victoria, Princess Royal, Alphonse Daudet, Odilon Redon, and John Boyd Dunlop. After him are Ernst Abbe, Edward Drinker Cope, Carlota of Mexico, Carl Menger, Father Damien, and Thomas Hardy. Among people deceased in 1877, Crazy Horse ranks 5. Before him are Gustave Courbet, Brigham Young, Adolphe Thiers, and Saigō Takamori. After him are Urbain Le Verrier, Henry Fox Talbot, Maria Anna of Bavaria, Amalie Auguste of Bavaria, Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and Gustav, Prince of Vasa.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Crazy Horse ranks 361 out of 12,171. Before him are David Carradine (1936), Zachary Taylor (1784), Desmond Doss (1919), Neil deGrasse Tyson (1958), Michael Jordan (1963), and Nicole Kidman (1967). After him are Millard Fillmore (1800), Jack Ruby (1911), Warren G. Harding (1865), Ernest Lawrence (1901), Barry Barish (1936), and Albert Fish (1870).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Crazy Horse ranks 47. Before him are Andrew Johnson (1808), James A. Garfield (1831), William Jennings Bryan (1860), Henry Clay (1777), Grover Cleveland (1837), and Zachary Taylor (1784). After him are Millard Fillmore (1800), Warren G. Harding (1865), Joe Biden (1942), Franklin Pierce (1804), William McKinley (1843), and Jim Mattis (1950).

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