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Kevin Carter

1960 - 1994

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Kevin Carter (13 September 1960 – 27 July 1994) was a South African photojournalist and member of the Bang-Bang Club. He was the recipient in 1994 of a Pulitzer Prize for his photograph depicting the 1993 famine in Sudan; he died by suicide four months after at the age of 33. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kevin Carter has received more than 4,442,651 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Kevin Carter is the 33rd most popular journalist (down from 28th in 2019), the 38th most popular biography from South Africa (down from 34th in 2019) and the most popular South African Journalist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 4.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.61

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 48

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.69

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among JOURNALISTS

Among journalists, Kevin Carter ranks 33 out of 196. Before him are W. T. Stead, Charles Dow, Diana Nyad, Steve McCurry, Walker Evans, and Christopher Hitchens. After him are Marcel Bezençon, Margaret Bourke-White, Joe Rosenthal, François Mignet, Thomas Nast, and Vladimir Posner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Kevin Carter ranks 94. Before him are Samia Suluhu Hassan, Jürgen Schult, Gia Carangi, Melissa Leo, Merlene Ottey, and Gjorge Ivanov. After him are Ersin Tatar, Takashi Miike, Fabiola Gianotti, Anna-Maria Ravnopolska-Dean, Kim Wilde, and Susanne Bier. Among people deceased in 1994, Kevin Carter ranks 108. Before him are Álvaro del Portillo, Christian-Jaque, Elissa Aalto, Vazgen I, Jean Carmet, and Aleksandar Petrović. After him are Vitas Gerulaitis, Walter Lantz, Antoine Pinay, Mehmed Orhan, Mario Brega, and Yeshayahu Leibowitz.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Kevin Carter ranks 38 out of 454. Before him are Kgalema Motlanthe (1949), Michael Levitt (1947), Peter Abrahams (1919), Arnold Vosloo (1962), André Brink (1935), and Cetshwayo kaMpande (1826). After him are Andries Pretorius (1798), Rory Byrne (1944), Louis Botha (1862), C. R. Swart (1894), John Vorster (1915), and Marais Viljoen (1915).

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Among JOURNALISTS In South Africa

Among journalists born in South Africa, Kevin Carter ranks 1. 

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