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Michael Sata

1937 - 2014

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Michael Charles Chilufya Sata (6 July 1937 – 28 October 2014) was a Zambian politician who served as the fifth president of Zambia from 2011 until his death in 2014. A social democrat, he led the Patriotic Front (PF), a major political party in Zambia. Under President Frederick Chiluba, Sata was a minister during the 1990s as part of the Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) government. He went into opposition in 2001, forming the PF. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michael Sata has received more than 485,357 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Michael Sata is the 11,300th most popular politician (down from 11,196th in 2019), the 6th most popular biography from Zambia (down from 5th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Zambian Politician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Michael Sata ranks 11,300 out of 19,576. Before him are Cuthred of Wessex, Baibars II, Philip I, Margrave of Baden, Ariarathes II of Cappadocia, Pietro Grasso, and Stanko Todorov. After him are Mohammed Magariaf, Eudokia, wife of Constantine V, Richard Mentor Johnson, Pons, Count of Tripoli, Yitzhak Mordechai, and Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Michael Sata ranks 241. Before him are Edita Piekha, David Mumford, Keiko Abe, Harry Wu, Milutin Šoškić, and Jiří Dienstbier. After him are Boris Cyrulnik, Alice Coltrane, David Del Tredici, George Zweig, Hildegard Behrens, and Johnny Dorelli. Among people deceased in 2014, Michael Sata ranks 168. Before him are Paul Wild, Emmanuel III Delly, Käbi Laretei, Jaime Lusinchi, Stefanie Zweig, and José Policarpo. After him are Carmelo Simeone, Josep Seguer, Sulejman Tihić, Marinho Chagas, Valeriya Novodvorskaya, and Jean Béliveau.

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In Zambia

Among people born in Zambia, Michael Sata ranks 6 out of 41. Before him are Wilbur Smith (1933), Kenneth Kaunda (1924), Godfrey Chitalu (1947), Stanley Fischer (1943), and Frederick Chiluba (1943). After him are 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, Michael Sata ranks 3. Before him are Kenneth Kaunda (1924), and Frederick Chiluba (1943). After him are Levy Mwanawasa (1948), Edgar Lungu (1956), Hakainde Hichilema (1962), and Guy Scott (1944).

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