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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 466,177 page views. Her biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Harriet Quimby is the 71st most popular journalist (down from 43rd in 2019), the 6,277th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,832nd in 2019) and the 17th most popular American Journalist.

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  • 470k

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  • 47.07

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.48

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.30

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among JOURNALISTS

Among journalists, Harriet Quimby ranks 71 out of 127Before her are Pierre Brossolette, Martin Parr, Michaëlle Jean, Veronica Guerin, Vladislav Listyev, and Murray Walker. After her are Dith Pran, Malcolm Browne, Dmitry Kiselyov, Caroline Rémy de Guebhard, Dan Rather, and Malcolm Campbell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1875, Harriet Quimby ranks 133Before her are Eugene Lanceray, Adolfo Díaz, Gaston Billotte, Konstantin Yuon, Giuseppe Vitali, and Matt McGrath. After her are Alexandros Nikolopoulos, Friedrich von Huene, James J. Jeffries, George Larner, David Hall, and Alexandros Diomidis. Among people deceased in 1912, Harriet Quimby ranks 100Before her are Ferdinand Zirkel, Pencho Slaveykov, Anna Filosofova, Edgar Evans, Spiru Haret, and Iakob Gogebashvili. After her are Émile Lemoine, Francis Davis Millet, Marc-Émile Ruchet, Octavia Hill, Eduardo López de Romaña, and Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Harriet Quimby ranks 6,277 out of 18,182Before her are Charles Stark Draper (1901), Mel Ramos (1935), Washington Allston (1779), Krysten Ritter (1981), Jim Dine (1935), and Mary Barra (1961). After her are Stephen Gyllenhaal (1949), Luther Allison (1939), Jay Garner (1938), Ted Raimi (1965), Pat O'Brien (1899), and Roger Maris (1934).

Among JOURNALISTS In United States

Among journalists born in United States, Harriet Quimby ranks 17Before her are Edgar Snow (1905), Joe Rosenthal (1911), Marie Colvin (1956), James Nachtwey (1948), Eve Arnold (1912), and Edward R. Murrow (1908). After her are Malcolm Browne (1931), Dan Rather (1931), Megyn Kelly (1970), Diane Sawyer (1945), James Foley (1973), and Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864).