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Bill Brandt

1904 - 1983

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Bill Brandt (born Hermann Wilhelm Brandt; 2 May 1904 – 20 December 1983): 14  was a British photographer and photojournalist. Born in Germany, Brandt moved to England, where he became known for his images of British society for such magazines as Lilliput and Picture Post; later he made distorted nudes, portraits of famous artists and landscapes. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bill Brandt has received more than 242,016 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Bill Brandt is the 59th most popular journalist (down from 51st in 2019), the 3,848th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,226th in 2019) and the 6th most popular German Journalist.

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  • 240k

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  • 50.71

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.15

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.67

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among JOURNALISTS

Among journalists, Bill Brandt ranks 59 out of 196. Before him are Yuri Bezmenov, Kazimierz Nowak, Robbie Ross, Daphne Caruana Galizia, Francesco Alberoni, and William Wilson. After him are Plínio Salgado, Selma Rıza, Veronica Guerin, Ernst Haas, Vladimir Solovyov, and Jacob Riis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Bill Brandt ranks 190. Before him are Lauri Virtanen, Esmat Dowlatshahi, Erwin Komenda, Hertta Kuusinen, Rambai Barni, and Srečko Kosovel. After him are Bobbie Rosenfeld, Henry Russell, Ladislav Ženíšek, Clarence Nash, Kenneth Bainbridge, and Grete Stern. Among people deceased in 1983, Bill Brandt ranks 134. Before him are Herman Kahn, Norman Holter, Nichita Stănescu, Mykola Bazhan, Mary Renault, and Christophe Soglo. After him are Juan Carlos Zabala, Harish-Chandra, Oddbjørn Hagen, Bart Bok, Valentín González, and Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Bill Brandt ranks 3,848 out of 7,253. Before him are Friedrich von Ingenohl (1857), Princess Therese of Nassau-Weilburg (1815), Johann Most (1846), Botho Strauß (1944), Andrey Osterman (1686), and Helmut Wick (1915). After him are Mathieu Carrière (1950), Siegfried Buback (1920), Lothar Wolleh (1930), Peter Carsten (1928), Gottfried Fuchs (1889), and Paul Schmidt (1899).

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Among JOURNALISTS In Germany

Among journalists born in Germany, Bill Brandt ranks 6. Before him are Gerda Taro (1910), Beate Klarsfeld (1939), Aenne Burda (1909), Thomas Nast (1840), and Marta Hillers (1911). After him are Norbert Haug (1952), Bogna Koreng (1965), Anja Niedringhaus (1965), Yury Dud (1986), and Claas Relotius (1985).

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