POLITICIAN

Kenneth Kaunda

1924 - 2021

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Kenneth Kaunda (28 April 1924 – 17 June 2021), also known as KK, was a Zambian politician who served as the first president of Zambia from 1964 to 1991. He was at the forefront of the struggle for independence from British rule. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kenneth Kaunda has received more than 1,587,592 page views. His biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 60 in 2019). Kenneth Kaunda is the 5,504th most popular politician (down from 5,325th in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Zambia and the most popular Zambian Politician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.85

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 62

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.65

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.45

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Kenneth Kaunda ranks 5,504 out of 19,576. Before him are Ōyama Iwao, Malik Shah, Charles-François Lebrun, Solamish, Carlos Lacoste, and Árpád Göncz. After him are Santiago Carrillo, Robert II, Duke of Burgundy, Emperor Go-Sanjō, Alexander I of Moldavia, Liu Xiang, and Konstantin Tih.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Kenneth Kaunda ranks 84. Before him are Paisios of Mount Athos, Milka Planinc, Haim Bar-Lev, Girma Wolde-Giorgis, Sverre Fehn, and Kenneth Waltz. After him are Matthäus Hetzenauer, Ottmar Walter, Paul Desmond, Arthur Danto, Vasil Bykaŭ, and Leonid Kogan. Among people deceased in 2021, Kenneth Kaunda ranks 88. Before him are Abdelkader Bensalah, Dušan Ivković, Tanya Roberts, Dean Stockwell, Vicente Fernández, and Helen McCrory. After him are Robert H. Grubbs, Libuše Šafránková, Djivan Gasparyan, Lars Vilks, Leopoldo Luque, and Yaphet Kotto.

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In Zambia

Among people born in Zambia, Kenneth Kaunda ranks 2 out of 41. Before him are Wilbur Smith (1933). After him are Godfrey Chitalu (1947), Stanley Fischer (1943), Frederick Chiluba (1943), Michael Sata (1937), Levy Mwanawasa (1948), Edgar Lungu (1956), Kalusha Bwalya (1963), Peter Dickinson (1927), Hakainde Hichilema (1962), and Denise Scott Brown (1931).

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Among POLITICIANS In Zambia

Among politicians born in Zambia, Kenneth Kaunda ranks 1. After him are Frederick Chiluba (1943), Michael Sata (1937), Levy Mwanawasa (1948), Edgar Lungu (1956), Hakainde Hichilema (1962), and Guy Scott (1944).

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