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Ann Druyan

1949 - Today

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Ann Druyan ( dree-ANN;) is an American documentary producer and director specializing in the communication of science. She co-wrote the 1980 PBS documentary series Cosmos, hosted by Carl Sagan, whom she married in 1981. She is the creator, producer, and writer of the 2014 sequel, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey and its sequel series, Cosmos: Possible Worlds, as well as the book of the same name. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ann Druyan has received more than 1,469,184 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Ann Druyan is the 4,905th most popular writer (down from 4,640th in 2019), the 6,821st most popular biography from United States (down from 6,663rd in 2019) and the 545th most popular American Writer.

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  • 1.5M

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  • 54.88

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.74

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.70

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ann Druyan ranks 4,905 out of 7,302Before her are Suniti Kumar Chatterji, Ignacio Manuel Altamirano, Kedarnath Singh, Jonathan Coe, Jean-Christophe Rufin, and Nathanael West. After her are Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Suzanne Lilar, Ferenc Karinthy, Marilynne Robinson, Horatio Alger, and Alan Paton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Ann Druyan ranks 439Before her are José Graziano da Silva, Tabitha King, Patrick Kilpatrick, Nadia Cassini, Jacques Weber, and Chang Wanquan. After her are Charles Fefferman, Viktor Kolotov, Ian Livingstone, Heather Menzies, Irena Degutienė, and Carlos Veiga.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ann Druyan ranks 6,821 out of 20,380Before her are Bill Monroe (1911), Carmen Barth (1912), John Van Ryn (1905), Nathanael West (1903), John Rutledge (1739), and Janice Dickinson (1955). After her are Richard Lugar (1932), Jonathan Larson (1960), Marilynne Robinson (1943), Dolores Hart (1938), Rachel Bilson (1981), and Tim Hardin (1941).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Ann Druyan ranks 545Before her are Joe R. Lansdale (1951), Candy Barr (1935), Tabitha King (1949), George Washington Williams (1849), Robert Charles Wilson (1953), and Nathanael West (1903). After her are Marilynne Robinson (1943), Horatio Alger (1832), C. L. Moore (1911), Diane Ackerman (1948), Edmund Wilson (1895), and Mark Frost (1953).