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Will Sampson

1933 - 1987

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William Sampson Jr. (September 27, 1933 – June 3, 1987) was a Muscogee Nation painter, actor, and rodeo performer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Will Sampson has received more than 2,490,667 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Will Sampson is the 972nd most popular painter (down from 720th in 2019), the 3,191st most popular biography from United States (down from 2,480th in 2019) and the 36th most popular American Painter.

Memorability Metrics

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    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.43

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.16

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.35

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Will Sampson ranks 972 out of 2,023. Before him are Carlo Saraceni, Olga Boznańska, Boris Vallejo, Apollodorus, Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, and Ambrosius Holbein. After him are James Turrell, Gaspar Becerra, Aleksander Orłowski, Philip de Koninck, Raden Saleh, and David Teniers the Elder.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Will Sampson ranks 168. Before him are Michel Sabbah, Debra Paget, Jörn Donner, Françoise Fabian, Guido Crepax, and Donald E. Westlake. After him are Mohammad-Javad Bahonar, Egil Danielsen, Michel Camdessus, Aleksandr Privalov, Frits Bolkestein, and Joachim Meisner. Among people deceased in 1987, Will Sampson ranks 98. Before him are Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean, Renato Guttuso, Zeca Afonso, Mary Astor, R. Budd Dwyer, and Claudio Villa. After him are Alessandro Blasetti, Bertrand de Jouvenel, Clarence Brown, Edgar P. Jacobs, Hermann Lang, and Donn F. Eisele.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Will Sampson ranks 3,191 out of 20,380. Before him are Thomas Curtis (1873), Donald E. Westlake (1933), Zoe Saldana (1978), Frederick William Franz (1893), Diane Ladd (1935), and Richard S. Hamilton (1943). After him are Norman Finkelstein (1953), James Turrell (1943), Jelly Roll Morton (1890), Reggie Jackson (1946), Divine (1945), and Anne Ramsey (1929).

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Among PAINTERS In United States

Among painters born in United States, Will Sampson ranks 36. Before him are Helen Frankenthaler (1928), Beatrice Wood (1893), Henry Hill (1943), Gutzon Borglum (1867), Grandma Moses (1860), and Allan Kaprow (1927). After him are James Turrell (1943), Lee Krasner (1908), Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823), Winslow Homer (1836), Franz Kline (1910), and Benjamin West (1738).

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