WRITER

Anderson Cooper

1967 - Today

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Anderson Hays Cooper (born June 3, 1967) is an American broadcast journalist and political commentator currently anchoring the CNN news broadcast show Anderson Cooper 360°. In addition to his duties at CNN, Cooper serves as a correspondent for 60 Minutes on CBS News. After graduating from Yale University with a Bachelor of Arts in 1989, he began traveling the world, shooting footage of war-torn regions for Channel One News. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anderson Cooper has received more than 20,719,446 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Anderson Cooper is the 6,380th most popular writer (down from 5,746th in 2019), the 11,700th most popular biography from United States (down from 10,710th in 2019) and the 859th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 21M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 41.44

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.55

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.33

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Biographical Dictionary of Famous Tar Heels
1988
Dispatches from the Edge LP
2006
Attacks on the press in 2006
2007
Dispatches from the Edge
2006
Dispatches from the Edge CD
2006
The Rainbow Comes and Goes
2016

Page views of Anderson Coopers by language

Over the past year Anderson Cooper has had the most page views in the with 1,742,819 views, followed by Spanish (33,407), and German (23,661). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (222.49%), Hebrew (88.70%), and Southern Azerbaijani (66.40%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Anderson Cooper ranks 6,380 out of 7,302. Before him are Ludwig Bemelmans, Christopher Fry, Thomas Lodge, Terence MacSwiney, Sylvia Browne, and H. R. F. Keating. After him are George S. Kaufman, Waleed Al-Husseini, Raúl Rivero, Richard Henry Dana Jr., Steve Sem-Sandberg, and Linda Woolverton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1967, Anderson Cooper ranks 433. Before him are Jacqueline McKenzie, Michael Schjønberg, Tara Fitzgerald, Bent Christensen Arensøe, Michael Preetz, and Yuzo Koshiro. After him are Tim McGraw, Ainars Bagatskis, Alberto García Aspe, Alain Roche, Renata Litvinova, and Toshihiko Koga.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Anderson Cooper ranks 11,700 out of 20,380. Before him are Bode Miller (1977), Jimmy DeGrasso (1963), Happy Rockefeller (1926), Freddie Prinze (1954), Nicole Ari Parker (1970), and Connie Hawkins (1942). After him are Thomas Gomez (1905), Tim McGraw (1967), Timothy Geithner (1961), George S. Kaufman (1889), Robert Ellis (1892), and Adrienne King (1960).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Anderson Cooper ranks 859. Before him are John P. Marquand (1893), S. E. Hinton (1948), Joel Osteen (1963), Richard Price (1949), Jodi Picoult (1966), and Sylvia Browne (1936). After him are George S. Kaufman (1889), Richard Henry Dana Jr. (1815), Linda Woolverton (1952), Joe Paterno (1926), Leslie Feinberg (1949), and Jennifer Egan (1962).

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