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Kevin Carter

1960 - 1994

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Kevin Carter (13 September 1960 – 27 July 1994) was a South African photojournalist and member of the Bang-Bang Club. He was the recipient in 1994 of a Pulitzer Prize for his photograph depicting the 1993 famine in Sudan; he died by suicide less than four months afterwards, at the age of 33. His story is depicted in the book The Bang-Bang Club, written by Greg Marinovich and João Silva and published in 2000. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kevin Carter is the 32nd most popular journalist (up from 33rd in 2019), the 55th most popular biography from South Africa (down from 38th in 2019) and the most popular South African Journalist.

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Among JOURNALISTS

Among journalists, Kevin Carter ranks 32 out of 196. Before him are Mauricio Funes, Jeremy Clarkson, Charles Dow, Margaret Bourke-White, François Mignet, and Christopher Hitchens. After him are Edgar Snow, Harriet Quimby, Walker Evans, Diana Nyad, Joe Rosenthal, and Joaquín Navarro-Valls.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Kevin Carter ranks 107. Before him are Mehmet Oz, Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Craig Mello, Anna-Maria Ravnopolska-Dean, Melissa Leo, and Johnny Briceño. After him are Ersin Tatar, Laurent Fignon, Mauro Tassotti, Carlos Mozer, Didier Burkhalter, and Mohamed Bazoum. Among people deceased in 1994, Kevin Carter ranks 112. Before him are Christian-Jaque, Roberto Burle Marx, Massimo Troisi, Walter Lantz, Marcel Bich, and Kuvempu. After him are Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, Mario Brega, Giovanni Spadolini, Antoine Pinay, Dick Sargent, and Heinz Rühmann.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Kevin Carter ranks 55 out of 454. Before him are Tom Naudé (1889), Louis Raymond (1895), Arnold Vosloo (1962), Rudolph Lewis (1887), Sid Atkinson (1901), and Chris Hani (1942). After him are Rory Byrne (1944), Jan de Klerk (1903), Marais Viljoen (1915), Louis Botha (1862), Esther Brand (1922), and Andries Pretorius (1798).

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Among JOURNALISTS In South Africa

Among journalists born in South Africa, Kevin Carter ranks 1. 

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