JOURNALIST

Eddie Adams

1933 - 2004

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Edward Thomas Adams (June 12, 1933 – September 19, 2004) was an American photographer and photojournalist noted for portraits of celebrities and politicians and for coverage of 13 wars. He is best known for his photograph of the execution of Nguyễn Văn Lém, a Viet Cong prisoner of war, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography in 1969. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eddie Adams has received more than 18,121 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Eddie Adams is the 41st most popular journalist (down from 31st in 2019), the 3,532nd most popular biography from United States (down from 2,471st in 2019) and the 14th most popular American Journalist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 18k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.55

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.52

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among JOURNALISTS

Among journalists, Eddie Adams ranks 41 out of 196. Before him are Margaret Bourke-White, Joe Rosenthal, François Mignet, Thomas Nast, Vladimir Posner, and Pavlo Chubynsky. After him are Mohamed Hassanein Heikal, Ara Güler, Letizia Battaglia, Maria Ressa, Eve Arnold, and Marta Hillers.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Eddie Adams ranks 183. Before him are Sabah Fakhri, Humberto Maschio, Yevgeny Khrunov, William Anders, Paul de Senneville, and Louis Farrakhan. After him are Dan Flavin, Isao Iwabuchi, Juan Marsé, Juan Sandoval Íñiguez, Josef Kadraba, and Allen J. Bard. Among people deceased in 2004, Eddie Adams ranks 121. Before him are Daouda Malam Wanké, Muhammad Zaidan, Briek Schotte, Werner Goldberg, Jacques Georges, and Howard Keel. After him are Naomi Shemer, Joe Viterelli, Lucia Berlin, Juan Carlos Aramburu, Jesús Gil, and Antonio Gades.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Eddie Adams ranks 3,532 out of 20,380. Before him are Jim Simons (1938), Walter Cronkite (1916), Alicia Silverstone (1976), Steve Lukather (1957), Alice Walton (1949), and Irene Dunne (1898). After him are Varian Fry (1907), Tony Goldwyn (1960), Louis Prima (1910), Jimmy McLane (1930), Marie Smith Jones (1918), and Larry Niven (1938).

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Among JOURNALISTS In United States

Among journalists born in United States, Eddie Adams ranks 14. Before him are Charles Dow (1851), Diana Nyad (1949), Steve McCurry (1950), Walker Evans (1903), Margaret Bourke-White (1904), and Joe Rosenthal (1911). After him are Eve Arnold (1912), Edward R. Murrow (1908), Marie Colvin (1956), Dan Rather (1931), James Nachtwey (1948), and Pauline Pfeiffer (1895).

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