1910 - 1937
Gerta Pohorylle (1 August 1910 – 26 July 1937), known professionally as Gerda Taro, was a German war photographer active during the Spanish Civil War. She is regarded as the first woman photojournalist to have died while covering the frontline in a war. Taro was the companion and professional partner of photographer Robert Capa, who, like her, was Jewish. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gerda Taro has received more than 1,118,609 page views. Her biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Gerda Taro is the 7th most popular journalist, the 407th most popular biography from Germany (up from 470th in 2019) and the most popular German Journalist.
Gerda Taro was a photojournalist who documented the Spanish Civil War. She is most famous for being killed in the conflict.
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Among journalists, Gerda Taro ranks 7 out of 127. Before her are Robert Capa, Richard Sorge, Oriana Fallaci, François-Noël Babeuf, Gianni Rodari, and Joseph Pulitzer. After her are Anna Politkovskaya, Sebastião Salgado, Julian Assange, John Reed, Dorothea Lange, and W. Eugene Smith.
1913 - 1954
HPI: 72.01
Rank: 1
1895 - 1944
HPI: 71.83
Rank: 2
1929 - 2006
HPI: 68.08
Rank: 3
1760 - 1797
HPI: 68.03
Rank: 4
1920 - 1980
HPI: 67.73
Rank: 5
1847 - 1911
HPI: 67.70
Rank: 6
1910 - 1937
HPI: 67.11
Rank: 7
1958 - 2006
HPI: 65.52
Rank: 8
1944 - Present
HPI: 65.28
Rank: 9
1971 - Present
HPI: 63.95
Rank: 10
1887 - 1920
HPI: 63.70
Rank: 11
1895 - 1965
HPI: 63.53
Rank: 12
1918 - 1978
HPI: 62.95
Rank: 13
Among people born in 1910, Gerda Taro ranks 14. Before her are Gloria Stuart, Konrad Zuse, Jean Genet, Paulette Goddard, Django Reinhardt, and Walter Schellenberg. After her are Ronald Coase, David Niven, Jacques Monod, Eric Berne, Dorothy Hodgkin, and Dominique Pire. Among people deceased in 1937, Gerda Taro ranks 15. Before her are Amelia Earhart, George Gershwin, Erich Ludendorff, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Mikhail Tukhachevsky, and Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk. After her are J. M. Barrie, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Austen Chamberlain, Sergo Ordzhonikidze, J. Bruce Ismay, and Rudolf Otto.
1910 - 2010
HPI: 69.44
Rank: 8
1910 - 1995
HPI: 68.82
Rank: 9
1910 - 1986
HPI: 68.70
Rank: 10
1910 - 1990
HPI: 68.34
Rank: 11
1910 - 1953
HPI: 67.92
Rank: 12
1910 - 1952
HPI: 67.22
Rank: 13
1910 - 1937
HPI: 67.11
Rank: 14
1910 - 2013
HPI: 67.04
Rank: 15
1910 - 1983
HPI: 66.47
Rank: 16
1910 - 1976
HPI: 66.46
Rank: 17
1910 - 1970
HPI: 66.35
Rank: 18
1910 - 1994
HPI: 65.99
Rank: 19
1910 - 1969
HPI: 65.91
Rank: 20
1897 - 1937
HPI: 73.67
Rank: 9
1898 - 1937
HPI: 72.73
Rank: 10
1865 - 1937
HPI: 72.71
Rank: 11
1861 - 1937
HPI: 72.62
Rank: 12
1893 - 1937
HPI: 71.09
Rank: 13
1850 - 1937
HPI: 71.02
Rank: 14
1910 - 1937
HPI: 67.11
Rank: 15
1860 - 1937
HPI: 66.25
Rank: 16
1884 - 1937
HPI: 65.67
Rank: 17
1863 - 1937
HPI: 64.82
Rank: 18
1886 - 1937
HPI: 64.44
Rank: 19
1862 - 1937
HPI: 64.12
Rank: 20
1869 - 1937
HPI: 64.07
Rank: 21
Among people born in Germany, Gerda Taro ranks 407 out of 6,142. Before her are Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1784), Klaus Meine (1948), Christopher of Bavaria (1416), Carol I of Romania (1839), J. Hans D. Jensen (1907), and Dietrich von Choltitz (1894). After her are Maria Amalia of Saxony (1724), Regiomontanus (1436), Alexander Grothendieck (1928), Louis II, Prince of Monaco (1870), Christian V of Denmark (1646), and Erwin Panofsky (1892).
1784 - 1844
HPI: 67.19
Rank: 401
1948 - Present
HPI: 67.16
Rank: 402
1416 - 1448
HPI: 67.16
Rank: 403
1839 - 1914
HPI: 67.15
Rank: 404
1907 - 1973
HPI: 67.14
Rank: 405
1894 - 1966
HPI: 67.13
Rank: 406
1910 - 1937
HPI: 67.11
Rank: 407
1724 - 1760
HPI: 67.11
Rank: 408
1436 - 1476
HPI: 67.06
Rank: 409
1928 - 2014
HPI: 67.05
Rank: 410
1870 - 1949
HPI: 67.04
Rank: 411
1646 - 1699
HPI: 67.03
Rank: 412
1892 - 1968
HPI: 67.01
Rank: 413
Among journalists born in Germany, Gerda Taro ranks 1. After her are Beate Klarsfeld (1939), Aenne Burda (1909), Thomas Nast (1840), Bill Brandt (1904), Norbert Haug (1952), Anja Niedringhaus (1965), Bogna Koreng (1965), and Claas Relotius (1985).
1910 - 1937
HPI: 67.11
Rank: 1
1939 - Present
HPI: 60.07
Rank: 2
1909 - 2005
HPI: 57.37
Rank: 3
1840 - 1902
HPI: 52.64
Rank: 4
1904 - 1983
HPI: 50.90
Rank: 5
1952 - Present
HPI: 49.08
Rank: 6
1965 - 2014
HPI: 39.88
Rank: 7
1965 - Present
HPI: 36.13
Rank: 8
1985 - Present
HPI: 29.35
Rank: 9