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Helen Thomas

1920 - 2013

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Helen Amelia Thomas (August 4, 1920 – July 20, 2013) was an American reporter and author, and a long serving member of the White House press corps. She covered the White House during the administrations of ten U.S. presidents—from the beginning of the Kennedy administration to the second year of the Obama administration. Thomas worked for the United Press and post-1958 successor United Press International (UPI) for 57 years, first as a correspondent, and later as White House bureau manager. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Helen Thomas has received more than 959,391 page views. Her biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Helen Thomas is the 4,523rd most popular writer (down from 2,895th in 2019), the 6,351st most popular biography from United States (down from 3,719th in 2019) and the 512th most popular American Writer.

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  • 32

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  • 2.50

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  • 4.46

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Helen Thomas ranks 4,523 out of 5,755Before her are Ángel Ganivet, Wolfgang Koeppen, Nestor Kukolnik, Gabriela Adameșteanu, Sofia Yablonska, and M. Ageyev. After her are Virginie Despentes, Birgitta Trotzig, Robert Greene, Ferreira de Castro, Alan Dean Foster, and Francis Davis Millet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Helen Thomas ranks 282Before her are Anselmo Duarte, Vincentas Sladkevičius, Mustafa Khalil, Richard Bong, Jens Bjørneboe, and Lea Padovani. After her are Kenneth E. Iverson, Konstantin Beskov, Natalya Kovshova, An Wang, Anton Malatinský, and João Cabral de Melo Neto. Among people deceased in 2013, Helen Thomas ranks 298Before her are Vladimir Yengibaryan, Chico Hamilton, Zdeněk Zikán, Lorenzo Antonetti, Joseph Paul Franklin, and Antonio Puchades. After her are Nino Bibbia, Sylvia Browne, Phạm Duy, José Luis Sampedro, Raimondo D'Inzeo, and Hassan Habibi.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Helen Thomas ranks 6,351 out of 18,182Before her are Althea Gibson (1927), Kurt Fuller (1953), Rance Howard (1928), Bob Backlund (1949), Ricardo Antonio Chavira (1971), and Randy Jackson (1961). After her are George Moscone (1929), Erik Olin Wright (1947), Greg Germann (1958), Jimmy Ellis (1940), Robert Kramer (1939), and Eddie Cantor (1892).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Helen Thomas ranks 512Before her are James Agee (1909), Leo Buscaglia (1924), William Cullen Bryant (1794), Lucius Shepard (1943), Jane Bowles (1917), and Lydia Davis (1947). After her are Alan Dean Foster (1946), Francis Davis Millet (1848), Sylvia Browne (1936), Damon Knight (1922), Robert Richardson (1955), and Melissa Mathison (1950).