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Brené Brown

1965 - Today

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Casandra Brené Brown (born November 18, 1965) is an American academic and podcaster who is the Huffington Foundation's Brené Brown Endowed Chair at the University of Houston's Graduate College of Social Work and a visiting professor in management at the McCombs School of Business in the University of Texas at Austin. Brown is known for her work on shame, vulnerability, and leadership, and for her widely viewed 2010 TEDx talk. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Brené Brown has received more than 4,627,490 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Brené Brown is the 6,461st most popular writer (down from 6,089th in 2019), the 12,088th most popular biography from United States (up from 12,810th in 2019) and the 886th most popular American Writer.

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  • 4.6M

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  • 48.82

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.38

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.46

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Brené Brown ranks 6,461 out of 7,302Before her are David Foenkinos, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Saunders Lewis, Denis Johnson, Rahat Indori, and Stanislava Staša Zajović. After her are Amy Sherman-Palladino, Oliver Friggieri, Alberto Angela, Hanan al-Shaykh, David Seidler, and Carmen Posadas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1965, Brené Brown ranks 502Before her are Ekaterina Andreeva, Khaled Bahah, André Kana-Biyik, Fernanda Torres, Peter Lundgren, and Rica Reinisch. After her are Brian Nielsen, Hamed Bakayoko, Black Francis, Fernando Gómez, Poul-Erik Høyer Larsen, and Joe Arlauckas.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Brené Brown ranks 12,088 out of 20,380Before her are Clyde McPhatter (1932), Ellen McLain (1952), Pamela Adlon (1966), David J. Griffiths (1942), Susan Saint James (1946), and Erle C. Kenton (1896). After her are Alison Krauss (1971), Eddie Kendricks (1939), Fred Neil (1936), Paul Feig (1962), Juanita M. Kreps (1921), and Billy Powell (1952).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Brené Brown ranks 886Before her are Joel Barlow (1754), Joe Medicine Crow (1913), Judith Merril (1923), Ted Tally (1952), Thomas Beatie (1974), and Robert Cormier (1925). After her are Amy Sherman-Palladino (1966), Ellen Glasgow (1873), Lionel Shriver (1957), Stephen Chbosky (1970), Forrest J Ackerman (1916), and Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872).