1916 - 2006
Jane Jacobs (née Butzner; 4 May 1916 – 25 April 2006) was an American-Canadian journalist, author, theorist, and activist who influenced urban studies, sociology, and economics. Her book The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) argued that "urban renewal" and "slum clearance" did not respect the needs of city-dwellers.Jacobs organized grassroots efforts to protect neighborhoods from urban renewal and slum clearance – in particular plans by Robert Moses to overhaul her own Greenwich Village neighborhood. She was instrumental in the eventual cancellation of the Lower Manhattan Expressway, which would have passed directly through the area of Manhattan that would later become known as SoHo, as well as part of Little Italy and Chinatown. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jane Jacobs has received more than 2,247,547 page views. Her biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Jane Jacobs is the 1,624th most popular writer (down from 1,491st in 2019), the 2,118th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,828th in 2019) and the 194th most popular American Writer.
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Among writers, Jane Jacobs ranks 1,624 out of 5,755. Before her are Tanya Savicheva, Olaus Petri, Raul Hilberg, Archestratus, Watchman Nee, and Mikhail Zoshchenko. After her are Xenophon of Ephesus, Lajos Zilahy, Juan Donoso Cortés, Lady Randolph Churchill, Ted Hughes, and Martin Opitz.
1930 - 1944
HPI: 56.89
Rank: 1,618
1493 - 1552
HPI: 56.89
Rank: 1,619
1926 - 2007
HPI: 56.88
Rank: 1,620
350 BC - 330 BC
HPI: 56.87
Rank: 1,621
1903 - 1972
HPI: 56.87
Rank: 1,622
1894 - 1958
HPI: 56.85
Rank: 1,623
1916 - 2006
HPI: 56.84
Rank: 1,624
101 - 300
HPI: 56.82
Rank: 1,625
1891 - 1974
HPI: 56.82
Rank: 1,626
1809 - 1853
HPI: 56.81
Rank: 1,627
1854 - 1921
HPI: 56.81
Rank: 1,628
1930 - 1998
HPI: 56.80
Rank: 1,629
1597 - 1639
HPI: 56.79
Rank: 1,630
Among people born in 1916, Jane Jacobs ranks 75. Before her are Carl Johan Bernadotte, Pérez Prado, Giorgio Bassani, Ernst Wilimowski, Mercedes McCambridge, and Stjepan Filipović. After her are Moondog, Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu, Luis Corvalán, Hamani Diori, and Archduke Felix of Austria. Among people deceased in 2006, Jane Jacobs ranks 83. Before her are David Bronstein, Paul Marcinkus, Billy Preston, Telê Santana, Sven Nykvist, and Peter Benchley. After her are Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Jack Warden, Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Walerian Borowczyk, Robert Plutchik, and Peter Norman.
1916 - 2012
HPI: 57.69
Rank: 69
1916 - 1989
HPI: 57.53
Rank: 70
1916 - 2000
HPI: 57.48
Rank: 71
1916 - 1997
HPI: 57.46
Rank: 72
1916 - 2004
HPI: 57.13
Rank: 73
1916 - 1942
HPI: 57.10
Rank: 74
1916 - 2006
HPI: 56.84
Rank: 75
1916 - 1999
HPI: 56.60
Rank: 76
1916 - 2010
HPI: 56.53
Rank: 77
1916 - 1992
HPI: 56.36
Rank: 78
1916 - 2010
HPI: 56.16
Rank: 79
1916 - 1989
HPI: 55.92
Rank: 80
1916 - 2011
HPI: 55.73
Rank: 81
1924 - 2006
HPI: 57.49
Rank: 77
1922 - 2006
HPI: 57.44
Rank: 78
1946 - 2006
HPI: 57.39
Rank: 79
1931 - 2006
HPI: 57.28
Rank: 80
1922 - 2006
HPI: 56.98
Rank: 81
1940 - 2006
HPI: 56.90
Rank: 82
1916 - 2006
HPI: 56.84
Rank: 83
1966 - 2006
HPI: 56.79
Rank: 84
1920 - 2006
HPI: 56.65
Rank: 85
1925 - 2006
HPI: 56.57
Rank: 86
1923 - 2006
HPI: 56.51
Rank: 87
1927 - 2006
HPI: 56.44
Rank: 88
1942 - 2006
HPI: 56.29
Rank: 89
Among people born in United States, Jane Jacobs ranks 2,118 out of 18,182. Before her are Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr. (1868), Leonard Kleinrock (1934), Karl Guthe Jansky (1905), Frank Jack Fletcher (1885), Henrietta Lacks (1920), and Saul Bass (1920). After her are Kevin Mitnick (1963), Michael Emerson (1954), Paul Revere (1735), Roberta Flack (1937), Dudley R. Herschbach (1932), and Sojourner Truth (1797).
1868 - 1924
HPI: 56.86
Rank: 2,112
1934 - Present
HPI: 56.85
Rank: 2,113
1905 - 1950
HPI: 56.85
Rank: 2,114
1885 - 1973
HPI: 56.85
Rank: 2,115
1920 - 1951
HPI: 56.85
Rank: 2,116
1920 - 1996
HPI: 56.84
Rank: 2,117
1916 - 2006
HPI: 56.84
Rank: 2,118
1963 - 2023
HPI: 56.84
Rank: 2,119
1954 - Present
HPI: 56.83
Rank: 2,120
1735 - 1818
HPI: 56.83
Rank: 2,121
1937 - Present
HPI: 56.82
Rank: 2,122
1932 - Present
HPI: 56.82
Rank: 2,123
1797 - 1883
HPI: 56.81
Rank: 2,124
Among writers born in United States, Jane Jacobs ranks 194. Before her are James Ellroy (1948), Walter Tevis (1928), Agnes Smedley (1892), Ken Wilber (1949), Eugene Nida (1914), and Peter Benchley (1940). After her are Lady Randolph Churchill (1854), Eric Carle (1929), Terry Brooks (1944), E. E. Cummings (1894), Richard Brautigan (1935), and Langston Hughes (1902).
1948 - Present
HPI: 57.17
Rank: 188
1928 - 1984
HPI: 57.02
Rank: 189
1892 - 1950
HPI: 56.96
Rank: 190
1949 - Present
HPI: 56.93
Rank: 191
1914 - 2011
HPI: 56.92
Rank: 192
1940 - 2006
HPI: 56.90
Rank: 193
1916 - 2006
HPI: 56.84
Rank: 194
1854 - 1921
HPI: 56.81
Rank: 195
1929 - 2021
HPI: 56.70
Rank: 196
1944 - Present
HPI: 56.70
Rank: 197
1894 - 1962
HPI: 56.68
Rank: 198
1935 - 1984
HPI: 56.66
Rank: 199
1902 - 1967
HPI: 56.57
Rank: 200