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Erin Brockovich

1960 - Today

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Erin Brockovich (née Pattee; born June 22, 1960) is an American paralegal, consumer advocate, and environmental activist who was instrumental in building a case against Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E) involving groundwater contamination in Hinkley, California for attorney Ed Masry in 1993. Their successful lawsuit was the subject of the Oscar-winning film, Erin Brockovich (2000), starring Julia Roberts as Brockovich and Albert Finney as Masry. Since then, Brockovich has become a media personality, hosting the TV series Challenge America with Erin Brockovich on ABC and Final Justice on Zone Reality, and became president of Brockovich Research & Consulting. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Erin Brockovich has received more than 12,461,011 page views. Her biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Erin Brockovich is the 283rd most popular businessperson (down from 215th in 2019), the 3,160th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,391st in 2019) and the 90th most popular American Businessperson.

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  • 12M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.50

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.16

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.41

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Erin Brockovich ranks 283 out of 847Before her are Melinda Gates, Hetty Green, Arkady Rotenberg, Leonardo Del Vecchio, Mino Raiola, and Alfred P. Sloan. After her are Joseph Oller, Beate Uhse-Rotermund, Aurelio Peccei, Eiji Toyoda, Jensen Huang, and Sergio Marchionne.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Erin Brockovich ranks 108Before her are Marcel Koller, Abdellatif Kechiche, Ahmed Jabari, Abdullah Abdullah, Karch Kiraly, and Mauro Tassotti. After her are Jennifer Rush, Yves Leterme, Stefano Casiraghi, Bako Sahakyan, Mehmet Oz, and Aymen Benabderrahmane.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Erin Brockovich ranks 3,160 out of 20,380Before her are Leon Panetta (1938), Jesse Jackson (1941), Dermot Mulroney (1963), Keith Carradine (1949), Charles J. Guiteau (1841), and Robert Metcalfe (1946). After her are James F. Byrnes (1882), Dana Ivey (1941), Zac Efron (1987), Angry Grandpa (1950), William Labov (1927), and Wesley Clark (1944).

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, Erin Brockovich ranks 90Before her are Ivy Lee (1877), Bob Iger (1951), Jack Welch (1935), Melinda Gates (1964), Hetty Green (1834), and Alfred P. Sloan (1875). After her are John DeLorean (1925), Douglas Tompkins (1943), Paul Castellano (1915), Amadeo Giannini (1870), Alice Walton (1949), and David Stern (1942).