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 1,714,572 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Sam Childers is the 567th most popular social activist (down from 386th in 2019), the 9,103rd most popular biography from United States (down from 5,289th in 2019) and the 82nd most popular American Social Activist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.7M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 44.77

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.64

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.42

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Sam Childers by language

Over the past year Sam Childers has had the most page views in the with 161,767 views, followed by Spanish (29,862), and German (26,325). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Czech (146.22%), Estonian (42.67%), and Vietnamese (20.62%)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Sam Childers ranks 567 out of 840. Before him are Urani Rumbo, Mina Ahadi, Ralph Abernathy, Emily Hobhouse, Dolores Huerta, and Wu'erkaixi. After him are Peter Nguyen Van Hung, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Annie Kenney, Aslı Erdoğan, Dieudonné M'bala M'bala, and Flora Drummond.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1963, Sam Childers ranks 392. Before him are Mikhail Yefremov, Toru Kamikawa, Chris Mullin, Scott Ian, Yelena Baturina, and Brendan Coyle. After him are Sylvain Chomet, József Kiprich, Vital Borkelmans, Larry the Cable Guy, Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper, and Ronny Rosenthal.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Sam Childers ranks 9,103 out of 20,380. Before him are Faye Grant (1957), Albert Salmi (1928), Bess Meredyth (1890), Evelyn Brent (1895), Cliff DeYoung (1945), and Summer Glau (1981). After him are Doc Watson (1923), Scott Brady (1924), Scott Derrickson (1966), Mark Sandrich (1900), Paul Manafort (1949), and William Z. Foster (1881).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Sam Childers ranks 82. Before him are Karen Silkwood (1946), Roger Stone (1952), Bill Haywood (1869), Mamie Till (1921), Ralph Abernathy (1926), and Dolores Huerta (1930). After him are Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890), Albert Parsons (1848), James Meredith (1933), Sylvia Rivera (1951), Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt (1861), and Alva Belmont (1853).

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