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Samora Machel

1933 - 1986

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Samora Moisés Machel (29 September 1933 – 19 October 1986) was a Mozambican politician and revolutionary. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Samora Machel has received more than 1,369,664 page views. His biography is available in 56 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 52 in 2019). Samora Machel is the 2,390th most popular politician (up from 2,753rd in 2019), the 4th most popular biography from Mozambique and the most popular Mozambican Politician.

Samora Machel was a Mozambican politician and revolutionary who served as the first president of Mozambique. He led the country to independence from Portugal in 1975 and served as president until his death in 1986.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 56

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.17

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.84

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Samora Machel ranks 2,390 out of 19,576. Before him are Kamehameha I, Vasily I of Moscow, John of Saxony, Infante Carlos, Count of Molina, Shallum of Israel, and Basiliscus. After him are Mikheil Saakashvili, Ivan Gašparovič, Alp-Tegin, Alfonso the Battler, Sergei Witte, and Seleucus IV Philopator.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Samora Machel ranks 41. Before him are Álvaro Siza Vieira, John Barry, Antonio Negri, Gene Wilder, Richard R. Ernst, and Mohammad-Ali Rajai. After him are Steven Weinberg, Oliver Sacks, Jerzy Grotowski, David McCallum, Gian Maria Volonté, and Richard Rogers. Among people deceased in 1986, Samora Machel ranks 26. Before him are Georgia O'Keeffe, Cary Grant, Albert Szent-Györgyi, James Rainwater, Fritz Albert Lipmann, and Erich Koch. After him are Alva Myrdal, Dmitry Kabalevsky, Stanley Rous, Leonid Kantorovich, Georges Dumézil, and Chiune Sugihara.

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In Mozambique

Among people born in Mozambique, Samora Machel ranks 4 out of 38. Before him are Eusébio (1942), Yasuke (1530), and Carlos Queiroz (1953). After him are Graça Machel (1945), Joaquim Chissano (1939), Armando Guebuza (1943), Mário Coluna (1935), Filipe Nyusi (1959), Afric Simone (1956), Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho (1936), and Eduardo Mondlane (1920).

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Among POLITICIANS In Mozambique

Among politicians born in Mozambique, Samora Machel ranks 1. After him are Graça Machel (1945), Joaquim Chissano (1939), Armando Guebuza (1943), Filipe Nyusi (1959), Eduardo Mondlane (1920), Carlos Agostinho do Rosário (1954), Pascoal Mocumbi (1941), Luísa Diogo (1958), Marcelino dos Santos (1929), Afonso Dhlakama (1953), and Mário da Graça Machungo (1941).

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