1910 - 1937
Gerta Pohorylle (1 August 1910 – 26 July 1937), known professionally as Gerda Taro, was a German Jewish 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. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gerda Taro has received more than 952,916 page views. Her biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia making her the NaNth most popular journalist.
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Among journalists, Gerda Taro ranks 7 out of 129. Before her are Robert Capa, Richard Sorge, Oriana Fallaci, François-Noël Babeuf, Joseph Pulitzer, and Gianni Rodari. After her are Sebastião Salgado, Dorothea Lange, John Reed, Julian Assange, Anna Politkovskaya, and Beate Klarsfeld.
1913 - 1954
HPI: 78.89
Rank: 1
1895 - 1944
HPI: 78.80
Rank: 2
1929 - 2006
HPI: 76.33
Rank: 3
1760 - 1797
HPI: 76.03
Rank: 4
1847 - 1911
HPI: 75.65
Rank: 5
1920 - 1980
HPI: 75.35
Rank: 6
1910 - 1937
HPI: 73.92
Rank: 7
1944 - Present
HPI: 72.76
Rank: 8
1895 - 1965
HPI: 72.58
Rank: 9
1887 - 1920
HPI: 72.06
Rank: 10
1971 - Present
HPI: 72.00
Rank: 11
1958 - 2006
HPI: 70.80
Rank: 12
1939 - Present
HPI: 69.32
Rank: 13
Among people born in 1910, Gerda Taro ranks 18. Before her are Paulette Goddard, Ronald Coase, Walter Schellenberg, Eric Berne, David Niven, and Kurt Meyer. After her are William Hanna, Dorothy Hodgkin, Jacques Monod, Samuel Barber, William Shockley, and Chiang Ching-kuo. Among people deceased in 1937, Gerda Taro ranks 17. Before her are Erich Ludendorff, George Gershwin, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Mikhail Tukhachevsky, J. M. Barrie, and Yevgeny Zamyatin. After her are J. Bruce Ismay, Gustaf Dalén, Austen Chamberlain, Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark, Sergo Ordzhonikidze, and Jean Harlow.
1910 - 1990
HPI: 75.36
Rank: 12
1910 - 2013
HPI: 74.65
Rank: 13
1910 - 1952
HPI: 74.39
Rank: 14
1910 - 1970
HPI: 74.39
Rank: 15
1910 - 1983
HPI: 74.00
Rank: 16
1910 - 1961
HPI: 73.97
Rank: 17
1910 - 1937
HPI: 73.92
Rank: 18
1910 - 2001
HPI: 73.85
Rank: 19
1910 - 1994
HPI: 73.66
Rank: 20
1910 - 1976
HPI: 73.63
Rank: 21
1910 - 1981
HPI: 73.18
Rank: 22
1910 - 1989
HPI: 72.94
Rank: 23
1910 - 1988
HPI: 72.90
Rank: 24
1865 - 1937
HPI: 79.38
Rank: 11
1898 - 1937
HPI: 79.18
Rank: 12
1850 - 1937
HPI: 78.19
Rank: 13
1893 - 1937
HPI: 78.06
Rank: 14
1860 - 1937
HPI: 76.58
Rank: 15
1884 - 1937
HPI: 74.00
Rank: 16
1910 - 1937
HPI: 73.92
Rank: 17
1862 - 1937
HPI: 73.87
Rank: 18
1869 - 1937
HPI: 73.79
Rank: 19
1863 - 1937
HPI: 73.00
Rank: 20
1911 - 1937
HPI: 72.35
Rank: 21
1886 - 1937
HPI: 72.11
Rank: 22
1911 - 1937
HPI: 71.74
Rank: 23
Among people born in Germany, Gerda Taro ranks 470 out of 5,289. Before her are Kurt Weill (1900), Kurt Meyer (1910), Harald zur Hausen (1936), Johann Ambrosius Bach (1645), Robert Ritter von Greim (1892), and Helmuth von Moltke the Younger (1848). After her are Adolf Butenandt (1903), George Grosz (1893), Hans Jonas (1903), Lothair II, Holy Roman Emperor (1075), Patrick Süskind (1949), and Dietrich von Choltitz (1894).
1900 - 1950
HPI: 73.98
Rank: 464
1910 - 1961
HPI: 73.97
Rank: 465
1936 - Present
HPI: 73.97
Rank: 466
1645 - 1695
HPI: 73.96
Rank: 467
1892 - 1945
HPI: 73.95
Rank: 468
1848 - 1916
HPI: 73.93
Rank: 469
1910 - 1937
HPI: 73.92
Rank: 470
1903 - 1995
HPI: 73.91
Rank: 471
1893 - 1959
HPI: 73.87
Rank: 472
1903 - 1993
HPI: 73.87
Rank: 473
1075 - 1137
HPI: 73.86
Rank: 474
1949 - Present
HPI: 73.86
Rank: 475
1894 - 1966
HPI: 73.86
Rank: 476
Among journalists born in Germany, Gerda Taro ranks 1. After her are Beate Klarsfeld (1939), Alfred Eisenstaedt (1898), Aenne Burda (1909), Bill Brandt (1904), Thomas Nast (1840), Norbert Haug (1952), Anja Niedringhaus (1965), and Bogna Koreng (1965).
1910 - 1937
HPI: 73.92
Rank: 1
1939 - Present
HPI: 69.32
Rank: 2
1898 - 1995
HPI: 66.57
Rank: 3
1909 - 2005
HPI: 65.89
Rank: 4
1904 - 1983
HPI: 61.50
Rank: 5
1840 - 1902
HPI: 60.94
Rank: 6
1952 - Present
HPI: 60.18
Rank: 7
1965 - 2014
HPI: 51.77
Rank: 8
1965 - Present
HPI: 51.19
Rank: 9