JOURNALIST

Harriet Quimby

1875 - 1912

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Harriet Quimby (May 11, 1875 – July 1, 1912) was an American pioneering aviator, journalist, and film screenwriter. In 1911, she became the first woman in the United States to receive a pilot's license and in 1912 the first woman to fly across the English Channel. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Harriet Quimby has received more than 515,330 page views. Her biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Harriet Quimby is the 97th most popular journalist (down from 71st in 2019), the 8,373rd most popular biography from United States (down from 6,264th in 2019) and the 24th most popular American Journalist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 520k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.03

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.15

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.70

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among JOURNALISTS

Among journalists, Harriet Quimby ranks 97 out of 196. Before her are Jon Ola Sand, Kenji Goto, Carol Thatcher, Tsuneko Sasamoto, Bianca Maria Piccinino, and Frances Benjamin Johnston. After her are Diane Sawyer, Malcolm Muggeridge, Malcolm Campbell, Chris Bonington, Alexei Venediktov, and George Padmore.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1875, Harriet Quimby ranks 164. Before her are Emīls Dārziņš, Maurice Hemelsoet, Kazimierz Prószyński, George Larner, Johan Edman, and José Santos Chocano. After her are Herbert Jamison, Tomás Berreta, Béla Békessy, Joseph Dempsey, Miriam A. Ferguson, and Františka Plamínková. Among people deceased in 1912, Harriet Quimby ranks 122. Before her are Anton Aškerc, Richard Andree, Juan Gualberto González, Thomas Pollock Anshutz, Luis Cordero Crespo, and Octavia Hill. After her are Edward Wilmot Blyden, Edgar Evans, Henry Sweet, Sophia Jex-Blake, Emil Stang, and Máximo Tajes.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Harriet Quimby ranks 8,373 out of 20,380. Before her are Pete Rademacher (1928), Charles Conrad Abbott (1843), Jim Gordon (1945), Ben McKenzie (1978), Tranquilo Cappozzo (1918), and Dale Fuller (1885). After her are Lisa Marie (1968), James Drury (1934), Owen D. Young (1874), Frank Piasecki (1919), Lee Calhoun (1933), and Raymond T. Odierno (1954).

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Among JOURNALISTS In United States

Among journalists born in United States, Harriet Quimby ranks 24. Before her are Dan Rather (1931), James Nachtwey (1948), Pauline Pfeiffer (1895), James Foley (1973), Malcolm Browne (1931), and Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864). After her are Diane Sawyer (1945), Geraldo Rivera (1943), Dorothy Thompson (1893), Megyn Kelly (1970), Sydney Schanberg (1934), and Amy Goodman (1957).

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