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Andrew Breitbart

1969 - 2012

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Andrew James Breitbart (; February 1, 1969 – March 1, 2012) was an American conservative journalist and political commentator who was the founder of Breitbart News and a co-founder of HuffPost. After helping in the early stages of HuffPost and the Drudge Report, Breitbart created Breitbart News, now a far-right news and opinion website, which has been described as misogynistic, xenophobic, and racist by academics and journalists. Breitbart played central journalistic roles in the Anthony Weiner sexting scandal, the firing of Shirley Sherrod, and the ACORN 2009 undercover videos controversy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Andrew Breitbart has received more than 5,725,794 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Andrew Breitbart is the 174th most popular journalist (down from 132nd in 2019), the 17,353rd most popular biography from United States (down from 15,523rd in 2019) and the 46th most popular American Journalist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 5.7M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 40.18

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.47

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.14

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among JOURNALISTS

Among journalists, Andrew Breitbart ranks 174 out of 196. Before him are Lise Rønne, Alan Johnston, Claas Relotius, Natalia Morar, Eliot Higgins, and Katsiaryna Barysevich. After him are Victoria Marinova, Chris Cuomo, Nancy Grace, Lauren Booth, A. O. Scott, and Sevgil Musayeva.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1969, Andrew Breitbart ranks 973. Before him are Simon Grayson, Ippei Watanabe, Helen Kelesi, Sanath Jayasuriya, Sheila Taormina, and Adrian Carmack. After him are Takuma Koga, Christian Moser, Takayoshi Amma, Sonia O'Sullivan, Sadhana Sargam, and Uta Rohländer. Among people deceased in 2012, Andrew Breitbart ranks 517. Before him are Leslie Carter, Miki Roqué, Hollie Stevens, Samia Yusuf Omar, Ajmal Kasab, and Jorge Andrés Boero. After him are Jaspal Bhatti, Tony Greig, Sarah Burke, Doris Singleton, Ghazala Javed, and Mark Lenzi.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Andrew Breitbart ranks 17,353 out of 20,380. Before him are Bonnie "Prince" Billy (1970), Dylan Penn (1991), Melissa Peterman (1971), Sheila Vand (1985), Chad Gable (1986), and J. G. Quintel (1982). After him are Harry B. Liversedge (1894), Pete Parada (1973), Lorenzen Wright (1975), Sandi Morris (1992), Jackson Robert Scott (2008), and Jonathan Kite (1979).

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Among JOURNALISTS In United States

Among journalists born in United States, Andrew Breitbart ranks 46. Before him are Frances Bean Cobain (1992), Roxana Saberi (1977), Larry Kudlow (1947), Janet Maslin (1949), Tim Russert (1950), and Michael Wolff (1953). After him are Chris Cuomo (1970), Nancy Grace (1959), A. O. Scott (1966), Jacob Appelbaum (1983), Lester Holt (1959), and Jim Acosta (1971).

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