WRITER

Joe Paterno

1926 - 2012

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Joseph Vincent Paterno (; December 21, 1926 – January 22, 2012), sometimes referred to as JoePa, was an American college football player, athletic director, and coach. He was the head coach of the Penn State Nittany Lions from 1966 to 2011. With 409 victories, Paterno is the most victorious coach in NCAA FBS history. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joe Paterno has received more than 5,374,939 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Joe Paterno is the 6,397th most popular writer (down from 5,760th in 2019), the 11,793rd most popular biography from United States (down from 10,776th in 2019) and the 863rd most popular American Writer.

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  • 5.4M

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  • 41.31

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.26

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.59

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Joe Paterno ranks 6,397 out of 7,302. Before him are Oles Buzina, Marit Paulsen, Anne-Marie Garat, George Peele, Barry Unsworth, and Mary Berry. After him are Asma Barlas, Michelle Paver, Leslie Feinberg, Jennifer Egan, James Patrick Kelly, and Phyllis A. Whitney.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Joe Paterno ranks 517. Before him are Paul Lynde, J. I. Packer, Happy Rockefeller, H. R. F. Keating, Sonja Åkesson, and Tulsi Giri. After him are Karl Gordon Henize, Bucky Pizzarelli, Jane Withers, Bruce Harlan, James Lipton, and Narinder Singh Kapany. Among people deceased in 2012, Joe Paterno ranks 454. Before him are Alan G. Poindexter, Phillip V. Tobias, Stanford R. Ovshinsky, Milt Campbell, Ronald Stretton, and Barry Unsworth. After him are Les Leston, Andrew Sarris, Tommy Godwin, Helen Gurley Brown, Fontella Bass, and Kitty Wells.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joe Paterno ranks 11,793 out of 20,380. Before him are RJ Mitte (1992), John Blair Jr. (1732), Ken Wahl (1954), Sheila Kelley (1961), Richard Biggs (1960), and Peter Ueberroth (1937). After him are Karl Gordon Henize (1926), Charles Drake (1917), Rosemary Radford Ruether (1936), Bucky Pizzarelli (1926), Goldust (1969), and Satch Sanders (1938).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Joe Paterno ranks 863. Before him are Jodi Picoult (1966), Sylvia Browne (1936), Anderson Cooper (1967), George S. Kaufman (1889), Richard Henry Dana Jr. (1815), and Linda Woolverton (1952). After him are Leslie Feinberg (1949), Jennifer Egan (1962), James Patrick Kelly (1951), Janet Evanovich (1943), Joe Hill (1972), and James Branch Cabell (1879).

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