1916 - 1970
James Britt Donovan (February 29, 1916 – January 19, 1970) was an American lawyer and United States Navy officer in the Office of Scientific Research and Development and the Office of Strategic Services (OSS, predecessor of the Central Intelligence Agency), ultimately becoming general counsel of the OSS, and an international diplomatic negotiator.Donovan is widely known for negotiating the 1960–1962 exchange of captured American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers and American student Frederic Pryor for Soviet spy Rudolf Abel, and for negotiating the 1962 release and return of 9,703 prisoners held by Cuba after the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James B. Donovan has received more than 3,629,244 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). James B. Donovan is the 1,665th most popular writer (down from 1,635th in 2019), the 2,088th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,891st in 2019) and the 197th most popular American Writer.
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Among writers, James B. Donovan ranks 1,665 out of 5,794. Before him are Jonas Lie, Antonio de Nebrija, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Colin Dexter, Manuel Puig, and Frederik Pohl. After him are Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière, Richard Adams, Tristan Corbière, Sæmundr fróði, Pramoedya Ananta Toer, and Adam Oehlenschläger.
1833 - 1908
HPI: 66.74
Rank: 1,659
1441 - 1522
HPI: 66.74
Rank: 1,660
1837 - 1909
HPI: 66.74
Rank: 1,661
1930 - 2017
HPI: 66.74
Rank: 1,662
1932 - 1990
HPI: 66.73
Rank: 1,663
1919 - 2013
HPI: 66.73
Rank: 1,664
1916 - 1970
HPI: 66.72
Rank: 1,665
1734 - 1793
HPI: 66.72
Rank: 1,666
1920 - 2016
HPI: 66.71
Rank: 1,667
1845 - 1875
HPI: 66.71
Rank: 1,668
1056 - 1133
HPI: 66.70
Rank: 1,669
1925 - 2006
HPI: 66.70
Rank: 1,670
1779 - 1850
HPI: 66.70
Rank: 1,671
Among people born in 1916, James B. Donovan ranks 75. Before him are Jane Jacobs, Luis Corvalán, Archduke Felix of Austria, Rafael Caldera, Bernard Blier, and Giorgio Bassani. After him are Ernst Wilimowski, Sterling Hayden, Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, James Herriot, Yekaterina Budanova, and Luigi Comencini. Among people deceased in 1970, James B. Donovan ranks 70. Before him are Toshio Iwatani, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Alfred Newman, George Szell, Friedrich Kellner, and Elyesa Bazna. After him are Jan Syrový, Agustín Muñoz Grandes, Roman Ingarden, Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein, Piers Courage, and Wilhelm Schepmann.
1916 - 2006
HPI: 67.50
Rank: 69
1916 - 2010
HPI: 67.42
Rank: 70
1916 - 2011
HPI: 67.41
Rank: 71
1916 - 2009
HPI: 67.28
Rank: 72
1916 - 1989
HPI: 67.19
Rank: 73
1916 - 2000
HPI: 66.91
Rank: 74
1916 - 1970
HPI: 66.72
Rank: 75
1916 - 1997
HPI: 66.69
Rank: 76
1916 - 1986
HPI: 66.62
Rank: 77
1916 - 2010
HPI: 66.32
Rank: 78
1916 - 1995
HPI: 66.26
Rank: 79
1916 - 1943
HPI: 66.11
Rank: 80
1916 - 2007
HPI: 65.94
Rank: 81
1925 - 1970
HPI: 67.99
Rank: 64
1888 - 1970
HPI: 67.96
Rank: 65
1900 - 1970
HPI: 67.89
Rank: 66
1897 - 1970
HPI: 67.04
Rank: 67
1885 - 1970
HPI: 66.95
Rank: 68
1904 - 1970
HPI: 66.74
Rank: 69
1916 - 1970
HPI: 66.72
Rank: 70
1888 - 1970
HPI: 66.69
Rank: 71
1896 - 1970
HPI: 66.66
Rank: 72
1893 - 1970
HPI: 66.38
Rank: 73
1885 - 1970
HPI: 66.28
Rank: 74
1942 - 1970
HPI: 66.23
Rank: 75
1894 - 1970
HPI: 66.21
Rank: 76
Among people born in United States, James B. Donovan ranks 2,088 out of 15,968. Before him are Ric Flair (1949), Frank Lucas (1930), Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821), Renée Taylor (1933), Dana Elcar (1927), and Frederik Pohl (1919). After him are Roy Sullivan (1912), Jonathan Frakes (1952), Curtis LeMay (1906), Charlie Wilson (1933), Ethel Barrymore (1879), and Katey Sagal (1954).
1949 - Present
HPI: 66.74
Rank: 2,082
1930 - 2019
HPI: 66.74
Rank: 2,083
1821 - 1877
HPI: 66.74
Rank: 2,084
1933 - Present
HPI: 66.73
Rank: 2,085
1927 - 2005
HPI: 66.73
Rank: 2,086
1919 - 2013
HPI: 66.73
Rank: 2,087
1916 - 1970
HPI: 66.72
Rank: 2,088
1912 - 1983
HPI: 66.72
Rank: 2,089
1952 - Present
HPI: 66.72
Rank: 2,090
1906 - 1990
HPI: 66.72
Rank: 2,091
1933 - 2010
HPI: 66.71
Rank: 2,092
1879 - 1959
HPI: 66.71
Rank: 2,093
1954 - Present
HPI: 66.71
Rank: 2,094
Among writers born in United States, James B. Donovan ranks 197. Before him are Upton Sinclair (1878), Alice Walker (1944), Erskine Caldwell (1903), Richard Brautigan (1935), R. L. Stine (1943), and Frederik Pohl (1919). After him are Ivy Lee (1877), Nora Roberts (1950), E. E. Cummings (1894), Terry Brooks (1944), Fredric Jameson (1934), and John Grinder (1940).
1878 - 1968
HPI: 66.94
Rank: 191
1944 - Present
HPI: 66.86
Rank: 192
1903 - 1987
HPI: 66.85
Rank: 193
1935 - 1984
HPI: 66.85
Rank: 194
1943 - Present
HPI: 66.77
Rank: 195
1919 - 2013
HPI: 66.73
Rank: 196
1916 - 1970
HPI: 66.72
Rank: 197
1877 - 1934
HPI: 66.66
Rank: 198
1950 - Present
HPI: 66.64
Rank: 199
1894 - 1962
HPI: 66.57
Rank: 200
1944 - Present
HPI: 66.55
Rank: 201
1934 - Present
HPI: 66.54
Rank: 202
1940 - Present
HPI: 66.52
Rank: 203