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David Brown

1916 - 2010

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David Brown (July 28, 1916 – February 1, 2010) was an American film and theatre producer and writer who was best known for producing the 1975 film Jaws based on the best-selling novel by Peter Benchley. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Brown has received more than 130,205 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). David Brown is the 5,480th most popular writer (down from 4,727th in 2019), the 9,134th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,348th in 2019) and the 708th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 130k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 42.66

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.29

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.61

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, David Brown ranks 5,480 out of 5,755Before him are Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Robert Creeley, Ksenia Sobchak, Charlotte Mary Yonge, Walter de la Mare, and Monika Maron. After him are Simo Puupponen, Iolo Morganwg, Pavao Pavličić, Karin Alvtegen, Joel Lehtonen, and Margaret Mazzantini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, David Brown ranks 251Before him are Ľudmila Pajdušáková, Günther Ortmann, Roger Apéry, Helene Hanff, George Montgomery, and Gene Mako. After him are Gaylord Nelson, Frank Parker, Ruy de Freitas, Peter Geach, Richard K. Guy, and Don Keefer. Among people deceased in 2010, David Brown ranks 340Before him are Corey Allen, Avi Cohen, Vladimir Motyl, Joe Mantell, Jerzy Stefan Stawiński, and Joseph Serge Miot. After him are Franco Ballerini, Tom Mankiewicz, Alexandru Neagu, Ronald Pettersson, Kanu Sanyal, and Park Yong-ha.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, David Brown ranks 9,134 out of 18,182Before him are Walter Winchell (1897), George Hearst (1820), David Costabile (1967), John J. Sullivan (1959), Rand Paul (1963), and Marisol Nichols (1973). After him are Ann Richards (1933), Clarence Hudson White (1871), Ross Bagdasarian (1919), Gary Johnson (1953), Tina Louise (1934), and Gaylord Nelson (1916).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, David Brown ranks 708Before him are Armistead Maupin (1944), Mary Oliver (1935), Philip Agee (1935), Julia Alvarez (1950), W. S. Merwin (1927), and Robert Creeley (1926). After him are Alvah Bessie (1904), Kathryn Stockett (1969), Theodora Kroeber (1897), Tony Kushner (1956), Susan Brownmiller (1935), and Lynne Cox (1957).