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Jerry Rawlings

1947 - 2020

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Jerry John Rawlings (22 June 1947 – 12 November 2020) was a Ghanaian military officer, aviator and politician who led the country for a brief period in 1979, and then from 1981 to 2001. He led a military junta until 1992, and then served two terms as the democratically elected president of Ghana.Rawlings came to power in Ghana as a flight lieutenant of the Ghana Air Force following a coup d'état in 1979. Prior to that, he led an unsuccessful coup attempt against the ruling military government on Tuesday, 15 May 1979, just five weeks before scheduled democratic elections were due to take place. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jerry Rawlings has received more than 1,841,363 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Jerry Rawlings is the 8,357th most popular politician (down from 8,172nd in 2019), the 8th most popular biography from Ghana and the 4th most popular Ghanaian Politician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.8M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.44

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 52

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.30

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.11

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Jerry Rawlings by language

Over the past year Jerry Rawlings has had the most page views in the with 200,186 views, followed by French (38,634), and Chinese (10,588). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are (4,450.00%), Chinese (189.21%), and Galician (103.41%)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Jerry Rawlings ranks 8,357 out of 19,576. Before him are Emmanuel-Armand de Richelieu, duc d'Aiguillon, Louise Julie de Mailly-Nesle, John Howard, Giovanni Dandolo, Agapenor, and William IX, Marquis of Montferrat. After him are Decentius, Kilij Arslan III, Baldwin Lonsdale, Sabah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Stefan Stambolov, and Prince Roman Petrovich of Russia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Jerry Rawlings ranks 195. Before him are Anne Archer, Kjell Magne Bondevik, Don Henley, Antonio de la Cruz, Melanie, and Murray Perahia. After him are Riyoko Ikeda, Karol Dobiaš, Laurie Anderson, Eliyahu M. Goldratt, James Cosmo, and Jacob Bekenstein. Among people deceased in 2020, Jerry Rawlings ranks 148. Before him are Georg Ratzinger, Manolis Glezos, Mustafa Nadarević, Claude Bolling, Joaquín Peiró, and Pierre Nkurunziza. After him are Pentti Linkola, Frances E. Allen, Borys Paton, Edmund M. Clarke, Astrid Kirchherr, and Mesut Yılmaz.

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In Ghana

Among people born in Ghana, Jerry Rawlings ranks 8 out of 162. Before him are Kwame Nkrumah (1909), Marcel Desailly (1968), Nana Akufo-Addo (1944), Abedi Pele (1964), Sylvanus Olympio (1902), and Anton Wilhelm Amo (1703). After him are Michael Essien (1982), John Atta Mills (1944), Peter Turkson (1948), Peter Mensah (1959), John Kufuor (1938), and William Boyd (1952).

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Among POLITICIANS In Ghana

Among politicians born in Ghana, Jerry Rawlings ranks 4. Before him are Kwame Nkrumah (1909), Nana Akufo-Addo (1944), and Sylvanus Olympio (1902). After him are John Atta Mills (1944), John Kufuor (1938), Joseph Arthur Ankrah (1915), Ignatius Kutu Acheampong (1931), John Mahama (1958), Fred Akuffo (1937), Hilla Limann (1934), and Akwasi Afrifa (1936).

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