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SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Sam Childers

1963 - Today

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Sam Childers (born 1963), also known as the Machine Gun Preacher, is an American motorcyclist, author, and humanitarian. A former member of the highwaymen Motorcycle Club, Childers became well known after Dateline NBC's (Keith Morrison and Tim Sandler) story about him and his interactions with Joseph Kony (leader of the Lord's Resistance Army) in 2005 and now dedicates his life and resources to rescue children in the war zone of South Sudan. Childers and his wife Lynn founded and operate Angels of East Africa, the Children's Village Orphanage in Nimule, South Sudan, where they currently have around 185 children in their care. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sam Childers has received more than 1,724,370 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Sam Childers is the 386th most popular social activist (up from 4,474th in 2019), the 5,301st most popular biography from United States (up from 6,584th in 2019) and the 51st most popular American Social Activist.

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  • 48.82

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.22

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.73

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Sam Childers ranks 386 out of 538. Before him are Viola Desmond, Marie Popelin, Samantha Smith, Gotō Shōjirō, Anita Augspurg, and Gulnara Karimova. After him are Giuseppe Pinelli, Nikolay Bauman, Lev Chernyi, Phyllis Schlafly, Hamida Javanshir, and Fred Hampton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1963, Sam Childers ranks 189. Before him are Horacio Elizondo, Conan O'Brien, James LaBrie, Rupert Graves, Richard Marx, and Alessandra Martines. After him are Rashidi Yekini, Jensen Huang, Dave Legeno, Ian Wright, Elvira Nabiullina, and Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Sam Childers ranks 5,301 out of 18,182. Before him are Rob Cohen (1949), Edna Ferber (1885), Beverly Aadland (1942), Joe Manganiello (1976), Margo Martindale (1951), and Ray Bolger (1904). After him are Bret Easton Ellis (1964), Shel Silverstein (1930), Robert Mills (1927), Thomas S. Monson (1927), Bridget Moynahan (1971), and Linden Ashby (1960).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Sam Childers ranks 51. Before him are Claudette Colvin (1939), Mathew Brady (1822), Louise Bryant (1885), Lester R. Brown (1934), Catharine MacKinnon (1946), and Samantha Smith (1972). After him are Phyllis Schlafly (1924), Fred Hampton (1948), Anna Louise Strong (1885), Afeni Shakur (1947), William Lloyd Garrison (1805), and Eugene V. Debs (1855).

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