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Dan Barker

1949 - Today

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Daniel Edwin Barker (born June 25, 1949) is an American atheist activist and musician who served as an evangelical Christian preacher and composer for 19 years but left Christianity in 1984. He and his wife Annie Laurie Gaylor are the current co-presidents of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, and he is cofounder of The Clergy Project. He has written numerous articles for Freethought Today, an American freethought newspaper. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dan Barker has received more than 429,359 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Dan Barker is the 6,848th most popular writer (down from 6,067th in 2019), the 14,378th most popular biography from United States (down from 12,706th in 2019) and the 1,043rd most popular American Writer.

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  • 430k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 37.46

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.07

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.15

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Dan Barker ranks 6,848 out of 7,302. Before him are Ken Liu, Mariam Petrosyan, Faye Kellerman, Mimoza Ahmeti, Yiyun Li, and Javier Valdez Cárdenas. After him are Robert Pinsky, Laurie Lee, Roberto Orci, Ingrid Klimke, Toru Dutt, and Ernest Cline.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Dan Barker ranks 778. Before him are A. C. Grayling, Pat Fraley, Marilyn Quayle, Bruce E. Melnick, Peter Navarro, and Kenneth D. Cameron. After him are Jerry Coyne, Jim Gilmore, Sandy Martin, Lou Macari, Manny Villar, and Ivan Stoyanov.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Dan Barker ranks 14,378 out of 20,380. Before him are Kenneth D. Cameron (1949), Sally O'Neil (1908), Larry Norman (1947), Alphonso Ford (1971), Amar'e Stoudemire (1982), and Adam DeVine (1983). After him are Noah Schnapp (2004), Gerald Mohr (1914), Tamarine Tanasugarn (1977), Brett Gelman (1976), Charles Pinckney (1757), and Kathleen Wilhoite (1964).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Dan Barker ranks 1,043. Before him are Peter Hedges (1962), David Ignatius (1950), Seth Meyers (1973), Elaine Showalter (1941), Michael Arndt (1970), and Faye Kellerman (1952). After him are Robert Pinsky (1940), Ernest Cline (1972), James T. Farrell (1904), Eliezer Yudkowsky (1979), David X. Cohen (1966), and Emanuel Pastreich (1964).

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