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Walter Cronkite

1916 - 2009

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Walter Leland Cronkite Jr. (November 4, 1916 – July 17, 2009) was an American broadcast journalist who served as anchorman for the CBS Evening News for 19 years, from 1962 to 1981. During the 1960s and 1970s, he was often cited as "the most trusted man in America" after being so named in an opinion poll. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Walter Cronkite has received more than 5,233,368 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Walter Cronkite is the 21st most popular presenter (down from 17th in 2019), the 3,527th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,251st in 2019) and the 14th most popular American Presenter.

Memorability Metrics

  • 5.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.56

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 52

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.00

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.14

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Walter Cronkites by language

Over the past year Walter Cronkite has had the most page views in the with 580,367 views, followed by German (18,443), and Japanese (8,885). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (137.05%), Norwegian (Nynorsk) (78.51%), and Latin (67.13%)

Among PRESENTERS

Among presenters, Walter Cronkite ranks 21 out of 143. Before him are Chris Wallace, Bear Grylls, Fred Rogers, Johnny Carson, Nick Vujicic, and Michael Buffer. After him are Thomas Gottschalk, Rudi Carrell, Bob Barker, Sharon Osbourne, Mike Bongiorno, and Barbara Walters.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Walter Cronkite ranks 121. Before him are Moondog, Giuseppe Taddei, Julian Rotter, Wilhelm Batz, Jacques Georges, and Harold Robbins. After him are James Herriot, Anthony Dawson, Sangoulé Lamizana, Unica Zürn, Lars Korvald, and Budd Boetticher. Among people deceased in 2009, Walter Cronkite ranks 130. Before him are Béla Király, Eric Woolfson, Rosanna Schiaffino, Hong Song-nam, Johannes Mario Simmel, and Robert Holdstock. After him are Anselmo Duarte, Natalya Estemirova, Pierre Gamarra, Andrea Mead Lawrence, Francisco Ayala, and Budd Schulberg.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Walter Cronkite ranks 3,527 out of 20,380. Before him are John Zerzan (1943), Wayne Knight (1955), Pernell Roberts (1928), Maria Tallchief (1925), Louis Farrakhan (1933), and Jim Simons (1938). After him are Alicia Silverstone (1976), Steve Lukather (1957), Alice Walton (1949), Irene Dunne (1898), Eddie Adams (1933), and Varian Fry (1907).

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Among PRESENTERS In United States

Among presenters born in United States, Walter Cronkite ranks 14. Before him are Christine Chubbuck (1944), Ed Sullivan (1901), Chris Wallace (1947), Fred Rogers (1928), Johnny Carson (1925), and Michael Buffer (1944). After him are Bob Barker (1923), Mike Bongiorno (1924), Barbara Walters (1929), Howard Stern (1954), Conan O'Brien (1963), and Phil McGraw (1950).

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