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Rodney King

1965 - 2012

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Rodney Glen King (April 2, 1965 – June 17, 2012) was an African-American man who was a victim of police brutality. On March 3, 1991, he was severely beaten by officers of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) during his arrest after a high speed pursuit for driving while intoxicated on the I-210. An uninvolved resident, George Holliday, saw and filmed the incident from his nearby balcony and sent the footage, which showed King on the ground being beaten after initially evading arrest, to local news station KTLA. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rodney King has received more than 15,144,645 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Rodney King is the 37th most popular celebrity (down from 27th in 2019), the 1,371st most popular biography from United States (down from 1,214th in 2019) and the 16th most popular American Celebrity.

Rodney King is most famous for being the victim of a brutal beating by the LAPD in 1991.

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  • 60.62

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 12.11

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.71

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CELEBRITIES

Among celebrities, Rodney King ranks 37 out of 265. Before him are Keke Geladze, Besarion Jughashvili, Blanche Monnier, Philippe Petit, Rosemary Kennedy, and Don King. After him are Sarah Knauss, Jacques Mayol, Albert Pierrepoint, Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione, Cecilia Gallerani, and Mary Mallon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1965, Rodney King ranks 24. Before him are Waris Dirie, Gong Li, Ben Stiller, Sarah Jessica Parker, Dr. Dre, and Mohammed Deif. After him are Stefka Kostadinova, Infanta Cristina of Spain, Oleksandr Syrskyi, Brooke Shields, Ange Postecoglou, and Viola Davis. Among people deceased in 2012, Rodney King ranks 62. Before him are Princess Ragnhild, Mrs. Lorentzen, Herbert Lom, Ben Gazzara, Norman Schwarzkopf Jr., Etta James, and Chavela Vargas. After him are Helmut Haller, Bingu wa Mutharika, Joseph Murray, Harry Harrison, Renato Dulbecco, and Chaleo Yoovidhya.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Rodney King ranks 1,371 out of 20,380. Before him are Mike Powell (1963), Martin Balsam (1919), George Benson (1943), Ken Thompson (1943), George Davis Snell (1903), and Ludacris (1977). After him are Ron Jeremy (1953), Vincente Minnelli (1903), Dorothy Vaughan (1910), Leland H. Hartwell (1939), E. Howard Hunt (1918), and Kelly Lynch (1959).

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Among CELEBRITIES In United States

Among celebrities born in United States, Rodney King ranks 16. Before him are Kim Kardashian (1980), Myrtle Corbin (1868), Margaret Brown (1867), Peggy Guggenheim (1898), Rosemary Kennedy (1918), and Don King (1931). After him are Sarah Knauss (1880), Kim Peek (1951), Paris Hilton (1981), Lizzie Borden (1860), Annie Oakley (1860), and Edie Sedgwick (1943).

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