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Jerry Brown

1938 - Today

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Edmund Gerald Brown Jr. (born April 7, 1938) is an American lawyer, author, and politician who served as the 34th and 39th governor of California from 1975 to 1983 and 2011 to 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, he was elected secretary of state of California in 1970; Brown later served as mayor of Oakland from 1999 to 2007 and attorney general of California from 2007 to 2011. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jerry Brown has received more than 8,188,847 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia. Jerry Brown is the 1,012th most popular politician (up from 1,083rd in 2019), the 292nd most popular biography from United States (up from 319th in 2019) and the 46th most popular American Politician.

Jerry Brown is most famous for being the governor of California from 1975 to 1983 and then again from 2011 to 2019. Brown has been a lifelong Democrat and has served as a mayor, state attorney general, and governor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 8.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 74.17

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 15.27

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Jerry Brown ranks 1,012 out of 19,576. Before him are Rashid-al-Din Hamadani, Mohammad Mosaddegh, Asa of Judah, Humayun, Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi, and Dzhokhar Dudayev. After him are Anton Drexler, Frederick III of Denmark, Jiang Qing, Miloš Zeman, Simon of Cyrene, and Roderic.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Jerry Brown ranks 18. Before him are Leonid Kuchma, Farah Pahlavi, Luis Aragonés, Klaus Schwab, Alberto Fujimori, and Joe Dassin. After him are Anthony Giddens, Christopher Lloyd, Paul Verhoeven, Mireille Darc, Vladimir Vysotsky, and Natalie Wood.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jerry Brown ranks 292 out of 20,380. Before him are Ava Gardner (1922), Jeffrey Dahmer (1960), Eli Wallach (1915), Joe Dassin (1938), Lisa Marie Presley (1968), and Tommy Lee Jones (1946). After him are Percy Williams Bridgman (1882), B. F. Skinner (1904), Robert E. Lee (1807), Ronnie James Dio (1942), P. T. Barnum (1810), and John Wayne Gacy (1942).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Jerry Brown ranks 46. Before him are John Quincy Adams (1767), James A. Garfield (1831), Robert F. Kennedy (1925), George Marshall (1880), William Howard Taft (1857), and William Jennings Bryan (1860). After him are Calvin Coolidge (1872), James Buchanan (1791), Grover Cleveland (1837), Zachary Taylor (1784), Warren G. Harding (1865), and Henry Clay (1777).

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