1916 - 2006
Jane Jacobs (née Butzner; May 4, 1916 – April 25, 2006) was an American-Canadian journalist, author, theorist, and activist who influenced urban studies, sociology, and economics. Her book entitled, 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 an area of Manhattan that later became 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 1,740,523 page views. Her biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Jane Jacobs is the 1,491st most popular writer (up from 1,572nd in 2019), the 1,829th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,816th in 2019) and the 172nd most popular American Writer.
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Among writers, Jane Jacobs ranks 1,491 out of 5,794. Before her are Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, Sławomir Mrożek, Elvira Madigan, Quintus Smyrnaeus, Seamus Heaney, and Surdas. After her are Diagoras of Melos, Ibn al-Khatib, Samuel R. Delany, Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Naim Frashëri, and Juan Marsé.
1825 - 1895
HPI: 67.53
Rank: 1,485
1930 - 2013
HPI: 67.52
Rank: 1,486
1867 - 1889
HPI: 67.52
Rank: 1,487
400 - 400
HPI: 67.52
Rank: 1,488
1939 - 2013
HPI: 67.51
Rank: 1,489
1478 - 1583
HPI: 67.50
Rank: 1,490
1916 - 2006
HPI: 67.50
Rank: 1,491
450 BC - Present
HPI: 67.49
Rank: 1,492
1313 - 1374
HPI: 67.49
Rank: 1,493
1942 - Present
HPI: 67.49
Rank: 1,494
1653 - 1725
HPI: 67.48
Rank: 1,495
1846 - 1900
HPI: 67.48
Rank: 1,496
1933 - 2020
HPI: 67.47
Rank: 1,497
Among people born in 1916, Jane Jacobs ranks 69. Before her are Lilian, Princess of Réthy, Georg Henrik von Wright, Léo Ferré, Kristján Eldjárn, Carl Johan Bernadotte, and Hassan Gouled Aptidon. After her are Luis Corvalán, Archduke Felix of Austria, Rafael Caldera, Bernard Blier, Giorgio Bassani, and James B. Donovan. Among people deceased in 2006, Jane Jacobs ranks 73. Before her are Paul Marcinkus, Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Reinhart Koselleck, Shamil Basayev, Allan Kaprow, and Hassan Gouled Aptidon. After her are James Van Allen, Dürrüşehvar Sultan, Pierre Clostermann, Jack Warden, Ryutaro Hashimoto, and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
1916 - 2002
HPI: 67.98
Rank: 63
1916 - 2003
HPI: 67.97
Rank: 64
1916 - 1993
HPI: 67.91
Rank: 65
1916 - 1982
HPI: 67.64
Rank: 66
1916 - 2012
HPI: 67.63
Rank: 67
1916 - 2006
HPI: 67.54
Rank: 68
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
1922 - 2006
HPI: 67.71
Rank: 67
1943 - 2006
HPI: 67.67
Rank: 68
1923 - 2006
HPI: 67.60
Rank: 69
1965 - 2006
HPI: 67.59
Rank: 70
1927 - 2006
HPI: 67.55
Rank: 71
1916 - 2006
HPI: 67.54
Rank: 72
1916 - 2006
HPI: 67.50
Rank: 73
1914 - 2006
HPI: 67.48
Rank: 74
1914 - 2006
HPI: 67.13
Rank: 75
1921 - 2006
HPI: 67.13
Rank: 76
1920 - 2006
HPI: 67.11
Rank: 77
1937 - 2006
HPI: 67.10
Rank: 78
1966 - 2006
HPI: 67.08
Rank: 79
Among people born in United States, Jane Jacobs ranks 1,829 out of 15,968. Before her are Vannevar Bush (1890), Asa Griggs Candler (1851), Don Ameche (1908), Benjamin Spock (1903), Saul Kripke (1940), and Thomas A. Steitz (1940). After her are John O'Keefe (1939), Lou Gehrig (1903), Nettie Stevens (1861), Al Oerter (1936), Mike Powell (1963), and Steve Vai (1960).
1890 - 1974
HPI: 67.52
Rank: 1,823
1851 - 1929
HPI: 67.51
Rank: 1,824
1908 - 1993
HPI: 67.51
Rank: 1,825
1903 - 1998
HPI: 67.51
Rank: 1,826
1940 - Present
HPI: 67.51
Rank: 1,827
1940 - 2018
HPI: 67.51
Rank: 1,828
1916 - 2006
HPI: 67.50
Rank: 1,829
1939 - Present
HPI: 67.50
Rank: 1,830
1903 - 1941
HPI: 67.50
Rank: 1,831
1861 - 1912
HPI: 67.50
Rank: 1,832
1936 - 2007
HPI: 67.50
Rank: 1,833
1963 - Present
HPI: 67.49
Rank: 1,834
1960 - Present
HPI: 67.49
Rank: 1,835
Among writers born in United States, Jane Jacobs ranks 172. Before her are Wayne Dyer (1940), Martin Gardner (1914), Jim Thompson (1906), Bob Woodward (1943), Nicholas Sparks (1965), and Philip José Farmer (1918). After her are Samuel R. Delany (1942), Robert Wilson (1941), Patricia Cornwell (1956), Donald E. Westlake (1933), Marilyn vos Savant (1946), and Natalie Clifford Barney (1876).
1940 - 2015
HPI: 67.79
Rank: 166
1914 - 2010
HPI: 67.79
Rank: 167
1906 - 1977
HPI: 67.66
Rank: 168
1943 - Present
HPI: 67.65
Rank: 169
1965 - Present
HPI: 67.57
Rank: 170
1918 - 2009
HPI: 67.56
Rank: 171
1916 - 2006
HPI: 67.50
Rank: 172
1942 - Present
HPI: 67.49
Rank: 173
1941 - Present
HPI: 67.46
Rank: 174
1956 - Present
HPI: 67.46
Rank: 175
1933 - 2008
HPI: 67.43
Rank: 176
1946 - Present
HPI: 67.42
Rank: 177
1876 - 1972
HPI: 67.41
Rank: 178