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John Perry Barlow

1947 - 2018

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John Perry Barlow (October 3, 1947 – February 7, 2018) was an American poet, essayist, cattle rancher, and cyberlibertarian political activist who had been associated with both the Democratic and Republican parties. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Perry Barlow has received more than 1,403,048 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). John Perry Barlow is the 5,627th most popular writer (down from 5,062nd in 2019), the 9,884th most popular biography from United States (down from 9,110th in 2019) and the 751st most popular American Writer.

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  • 1.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 41.52

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.95

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.98

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, John Perry Barlow ranks 5,627 out of 5,755. Before him are John Betjeman, Sarah J. Maas, Anna Löwenstein, Kenneth Rexroth, Owen Barfield, and Colum McCann. After him are Simon Sebag Montefiore, Karel Schoeman, James Cooke Brown, John Langalibalele Dube, Christoph Ransmayr, and Sarah Moore Grimké.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, John Perry Barlow ranks 652. Before him are Lolo Matalasi Moliga, Flemming Jørgensen, Julie Driscoll Tippetts, Tillman Thomas, Ray Cooper, and Robert Levin. After him are Boris Gulko, Rajko Đurić, Stephanie Beacham, Ada Kok, George Alec Effinger, and Reno Olsen. Among people deceased in 2018, John Perry Barlow ranks 425. Before him are Horace Ashenfelter, Arthur Schnabel, George Deukmejian, Marielle Franco, Bud Luckey, and Stanley Anderson. After him are Daniel Akaka, Ken Berry, Mary Midgley, Yuriy Tyukalov, László Fábián, and Thomas Bopp.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Perry Barlow ranks 9,884 out of 18,182. Before him are Deborah Snyder (1901), Chad Lowe (1968), Chris Weitz (1969), Giuseppe Rossi (1987), Jo Jorgensen (1957), and Tim Sweeney (1970). After him are Bucky Pizzarelli (1926), Rick Berman (1945), Esther Ralston (1902), Lyle Campbell (1942), Clem Burke (1954), and Charles Ammi Cutter (1837).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, John Perry Barlow ranks 751. Before him are Booth Tarkington (1869), David Halberstam (1934), Madeline Miller (1978), Edward Everett Hale (1822), Sarah J. Maas (1986), and Kenneth Rexroth (1905). After him are Sarah Moore Grimké (1792), Glenn Greenwald (1967), Naomi Wolf (1962), Wallace Stegner (1909), William Inge (1913), and Lew Rockwell (1944).

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