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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 5,094,410 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Joe Paterno is the 5,781st most popular writer (down from 4,456th in 2019), the 10,799th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,533rd in 2019) and the 812th most popular American Writer.

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  • 5.1M

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  • 40.20

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  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.28

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.57

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Joe Paterno ranks 5,781 out of 5,755Before him are Daniel Handler, Arvi Pohjanpää, Sue Monk Kidd, James Lipton, James Branch Cabell, and Lawrence Wright. After him are Tierno Monénembo, Mo Hayder, Joel Barlow, Damon Lindelof, Christopher Fry, and Polly Samson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Joe Paterno ranks 453Before him are Don Messick, Sonja Åkesson, Jan Morris, R. L. Burnside, James Lipton, and Jane Withers. After him are Jimmy Bryan, Karl Gordon Henize, Beverly Garland, Valentin Kuzin, H. R. F. Keating, and Cathy Downs. Among people deceased in 2012, Joe Paterno ranks 406Before him are Rino Ferrario, Homai Vyarawalla, Nicholas Katzenbach, Sheikh Mukhtar Mohamed Hussein, Andrew Sarris, and Turhan Bey. After him are Kitty Wells, Helen Gurley Brown, Arthur Jensen, Mehdi Hassan, John Arden, and Frederica Sagor Maas.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joe Paterno ranks 10,799 out of 18,182Before him are Carmine Giovinazzo (1973), Carl Levin (1934), Jane Randolph (1914), Jeremy Strong (1978), Chuck Leavell (1952), and Walter Frederick Morrison (1920). After him are Fred Schneider (1951), Jonathan Breck (1965), Colton Ford (1962), David Del Tredici (1937), John F. Seitz (1892), and Melanie Martinez (1995).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Joe Paterno ranks 812Before him are Linda Woolverton (1952), Daniel Handler (1970), Sue Monk Kidd (1948), James Lipton (1926), James Branch Cabell (1879), and Lawrence Wright (1947). After him are Joel Barlow (1754), Damon Lindelof (1973), Robert Rodat (1953), Laurell K. Hamilton (1963), Tom Wilson (1931), and Helen Gurley Brown (1922).