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Pol Pot

1925 - 1998

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Pol Pot (born Saloth Sâr; 19 May 1925 – 15 April 1998) was a Cambodian revolutionary and politician who was the dictator of communist Cambodia from 1976 until his overthrow in 1979. He oversaw mass atrocities and is widely believed to be one of the most brutal despots in modern world history. Ideologically a Maoist and a Khmer ethnonationalist, Pot was a leader of Cambodia's Communist movement, known as the Khmer Rouge, from 1963 to 1997. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pol Pot has received more than 15,550,510 page views. His biography is available in 109 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 104 in 2019). Pol Pot is the 149th most popular politician (up from 164th 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.

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  • 109

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.64

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Pol Pot ranks 149 out of 19,576. Before him are Sun Yat-sen, Simón Bolívar, Al Gore, Augusto Pinochet, Hatshepsut, and Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden. After him are Abdul Hamid II, Xerxes I, Alexander I of Russia, Hulagu Khan, Shimon Peres, and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Pol Pot ranks 3. Before him are Malcolm X, and Margaret Thatcher. After him are Richard Burton, Yukio Mishima, Patrice Lumumba, Gilles Deleuze, Paul Newman, Alija Izetbegović, Giorgio Napolitano, Zygmunt Bauman, and Mahathir Mohamad. Among people deceased in 1998, Pol Pot ranks 1. After him are Akira Kurosawa, Frank Sinatra, Jean Marais, Halldór Laxness, Todor Zhivkov, Carlos Castaneda, Ernst Jünger, Octavio Paz, Jean-François Lyotard, Niklas Luhmann, and Yang Shangkun.

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In Cambodia

Among people born in Cambodia, Pol Pot ranks 1 out of 40. After him are Norodom Sihanouk (1922), Nuon Chea (1926), Lon Nol (1913), Hun Sen (1952), Jayavarman VII (1125), Khieu Samphan (1931), Sisowath Monivong (1875), Heng Samrin (1934), Norodom of Cambodia (1834), Jayavarman II (800), and Ta Mok (1926).

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Among POLITICIANS In Cambodia

Among politicians born in Cambodia, Pol Pot ranks 1. After him are Norodom Sihanouk (1922), Nuon Chea (1926), Lon Nol (1913), Hun Sen (1952), Jayavarman VII (1125), Khieu Samphan (1931), Sisowath Monivong (1875), Heng Samrin (1934), Norodom of Cambodia (1834), Jayavarman II (800), and Suryavarman II (1095).

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