Journalist

Jacob Riis

19th and 20th-century American photographer, journalist and activist

1849 - 1914

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His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2024). Jacob Riis is the 60th most popular journalist (up from 65th in 2024), the 395th most popular biography from Denmark (up from 400th in 2019) and the most popular Danish Journalist.

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Of the 2 Journalists born in Denmark, Jacob Riis ranks first.

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Jacob Riis's biography appears in 31 language editions of Wikipedia — more than 79% of all Journalists.

May 3

Jacob Riis shares a May 3 birthday with Niccolò Machiavelli, Golda Meir, and Constantine III.

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Among Journalists

Among journalists, Jacob Riis ranks 60 out of 196. Before him are Marion Dönhoff, Selma Rıza, Daphne Caruana Galizia, Larry Kudlow, Pavlo Chubynsky, and Plínio Salgado. After him are Martin Parr, Bernard Pivot, Vladislav Listyev, Kazimierz Nowak, Dith Pran, and Maria Ressa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1849, Jacob Riis ranks 71. Before him are Hugo von Seeliger, Ida Straus, William Ernest Henley, Johan Kjeldahl, Ferdinand Brunetière, and Pedro Montt. After him are Carl Fredrik Hill, Emil Zuckerkandl, Charles F. Brush, Emma Lazarus, Gerhard Munthe, and N. E. Brown. Among people deceased in 1914, Jacob Riis ranks 93. Before him are Camillo Boito, Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts, Harry Rosenbusch, Jane Morris, Georg von Kopp, and Hubertine Auclert. After him are Jules Lemaître, Antun Gustav Matoš, Itō Sukeyuki, Koos de la Rey, Wilhelm Lexis, and Carl Theodore Liebermann.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Jacob Riis ranks 395 out of 1,032. Before him are Anders Sandøe Ørsted (1778), Viggo Kampmann (1910), Ole Beich (1955), Jakob Nielsen (1957), Patricia Crone (1945), and Trine Dyrholm (1972). After him are August Philipp, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (1612), Robert Jacobsen (1912), Jens Ferdinand Willumsen (1864), Ada Adler (1878), Vagn Holmboe (1909), and Japetus Steenstrup (1813).

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Among Journalists In Denmark

Among journalists born in Denmark, Jacob Riis ranks 1. After him is Lise Rønne (1978).

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