New games! PlayTrivia andBirthle.

POLITICIAN

Pol Pot

1925 - 1998

Photo of Pol Pot

Icon of person Pol Pot

Pol Pot (born Saloth Sâr; 19 May 1925 – 15 April 1998) was a Cambodian communist revolutionary, politician and a dictator who ruled Cambodia as Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea between 1976 and 1979. Ideologically a communist and a Khmer ethnonationalist, he was a leading member of Cambodia's communist movement, the Khmer Rouge, from 1963 to 1997 and served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea from 1963 to 1981. His administration converted Cambodia into a one-party communist state and perpetrated the Cambodian genocide. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pol Pot has received more than 13,891,325 page views. His biography is available in 104 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 101 in 2019). Pol Pot is the 164th most popular politician (down from 154th in 2019), the most popular biography from Cambodia and the most popular Cambodian Politician.

Pol Pot is most famous for being the leader of the Khmer Rouge, a Cambodian communist regime that ruled from 1975 to 1979. Pol Pot was responsible for the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million people through executions, starvation, and overwork.

Memorability Metrics

  • 14M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 78.53

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 104

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.53

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.72

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Pol Pots by language


Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Pol Pot ranks 164 out of 15,577. Before him are Darius III, Mehmed I, William I, German Emperor, Skanderbeg, Rodrigo Duterte, and Alexander I of Russia. After him are Catherine I of Russia, Demosthenes, Batu Khan, Joanna of Castile, A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, and Henry III of France.

Most Popular Politicians in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Pol Pot ranks 4. Before him are Malcolm X, Margaret Thatcher, and Richard Burton. After him are Yukio Mishima, Mikis Theodorakis, Paul Newman, Albert Bandura, Gilles Deleuze, Patrice Lumumba, Zygmunt Bauman, and Alija Izetbegović. Among people deceased in 1998, Pol Pot ranks 2. Before him is Akira Kurosawa. After him are Frank Sinatra, Jean Marais, Halldór Laxness, Todor Zhivkov, Ernst Jünger, Carlos Castaneda, Jean-François Lyotard, Yang Shangkun, Octavio Paz, and Alan Shepard.

Others Born in 1925

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1998

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Cambodia

Among people born in Cambodia, Pol Pot ranks 1 out of 35. After him are Norodom Sihanouk (1922), Norodom Sihamoni (1953), Lon Nol (1913), Jayavarman VII (1125), Hun Sen (1952), Khieu Samphan (1931), Jayavarman II (800), Norodom Ranariddh (1944), Norodom of Cambodia (1834), Sisowath Monivong (1875), and Heng Samrin (1934).

Others born in Cambodia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among POLITICIANS In Cambodia

Among politicians born in Cambodia, Pol Pot ranks 1. After him are Norodom Sihanouk (1922), Norodom Sihamoni (1953), Lon Nol (1913), Jayavarman VII (1125), Hun Sen (1952), Khieu Samphan (1931), Jayavarman II (800), Norodom Ranariddh (1944), Norodom of Cambodia (1834), Sisowath Monivong (1875), and Heng Samrin (1934).

Cambodian born Politicians

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Related Profiles

  • DatawheelCL