New games! PlayTrivia andBirthle.

POLITICIAN

Samuel Doe

1951 - 1990

Photo of Samuel Doe

Icon of person Samuel Doe

Samuel Kanyon Doe (6 May 1951 – 9 September 1990) was a Liberian politician who served as the 21st President of Liberia from 1986 to 1990. He ruled Liberia as Chairman of the People's Redemption Council (PRC) from 1980 to 1986 and then as president from 1986 to 1990. Doe was a master sergeant in the Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) when he staged the violent 1980 coup d'état that overthrew President William Tolbert and the True Whig Party, becoming the first non-Americo-Liberian leader of Liberia and ending 133 years of Americo-Liberian rule. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Samuel Doe has received more than 2,170,515 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Samuel Doe is the 6,134th most popular politician (up from 6,893rd in 2019), the 4th most popular biography from Liberia and the 3rd most popular Liberian Politician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.95

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 41

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.02

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.79

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Samuel Does by language


Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Samuel Doe ranks 6,134 out of 15,577. Before him are Phạm Văn Đồng, Chilperic of Aquitaine, Carlos Antonio López, Franz Vranitzky, Mirza Muhammad Haidar Dughlat, and King Nan of Zhou. After him are Neferkare II, Euphemia, Mikołaj "the Black" Radziwiłł, Anna Leszczyńska, Henry II, Duke of Brabant, and Per Brahe the Younger.

Most Popular Politicians in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Samuel Doe ranks 72. Before him are Barry Marshall, Michèle Mouton, Ben Carson, Fatmir Sejdiu, Joey Ramone, and Ernesto Zedillo. After him are Win Myint, Javier Marías, Joe Pantoliano, Fernando Lugo, Ben Feringa, and Thomas Boni Yayi. Among people deceased in 1990, Samuel Doe ranks 66. Before him are Lewis Mumford, Sergei Dovlatov, Angelo Schiavio, Delphine Seyrig, Samuel Noah Kramer, and Curtis LeMay. After him are Nina Kulagina, Tadeusz Kantor, Nicola Abbagnano, Manuel Puig, Meir Kahane, and José Figueres Ferrer.

Others Born in 1951

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1990

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Liberia

Among people born in Liberia, Samuel Doe ranks 4 out of 20. Before him are Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (1938), George Weah (1966), and Charles Taylor (1948). After him are William Tolbert (1913), Leymah Gbowee (1972), William Tubman (1895), Charles D. B. King (1875), Amos Sawyer (1945), Moses Blah (1947), Gyude Bryant (1949), and Edwin Barclay (1882).

Others born in Liberia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among POLITICIANS In Liberia

Among politicians born in Liberia, Samuel Doe ranks 3. Before him are Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (1938) and Charles Taylor (1948). After him are William Tolbert (1913), William Tubman (1895), Charles D. B. King (1875), Amos Sawyer (1945), Moses Blah (1947), Gyude Bryant (1949), Edwin Barclay (1882), and Joseph Boakai (1944).

Liberian born Politicians

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous
  • DatawheelCL