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John Reed

1887 - 1920

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John Silas Reed (October 22, 1887 – October 17, 1920) was an American journalist, poet, and communist activist. Reed first gained prominence as a war correspondent during the Mexican Revolution for Metropolitan and World War I for The Masses. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Reed has received more than 66,276 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). John Reed is the 13th most popular journalist (down from 11th in 2019), the 875th most popular biography from United States (down from 794th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular American Journalist.

John Reed is most famous for his book Ten Days That Shook the World.

Memorability Metrics

  • 66k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 63.52

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.12

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.27

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of John Reeds by language

Over the past year John Reed has had the most page views in the with 56,243 views, followed by German (22,284), and Spanish (20,257). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Indonesian (422.22%), Basque (32.39%), and Egyptian Arabic (29.00%)

Among JOURNALISTS

Among journalists, John Reed ranks 13 out of 196. Before him are Sebastião Salgado, Gerda Taro, Anna Politkovskaya, Robert Guérin, Julian Assange, and Dorothea Lange. After him are Beate Klarsfeld, Victor Noir, W. Eugene Smith, Alexander Berkman, Lee Miller, and Endre Ady.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, John Reed ranks 37. Before him are Nikolai Vavilov, Gustav Ludwig Hertz, Lothar Rendulic, August Macke, Erich Mendelsohn, and Kurt Schwitters. After him are James Paul Moody, Emilio Mola, Alexander Archipenko, René Cassin, Harald Bohr, and Julian Huxley. Among people deceased in 1920, John Reed ranks 20. Before him are Jeanne Hébuterne, Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia, Inessa Armand, Svetozar Boroević, Dmitri Ivanovsky, and Rosalia Lombardo. After him are Nectarios of Aegina, Benito Pérez Galdós, Venustiano Carranza, Max Klinger, Duke Ludwig Wilhelm in Bavaria, and Essad Pasha Toptani.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Reed ranks 875 out of 20,380. Before him are Oliver E. Williamson (1932), Sinclair Lewis (1885), Vivian Maier (1926), Matthew McConaughey (1969), Jason Robards (1922), and Wyatt Earp (1848). After him are Hulk Hogan (1953), Raymond Carver (1938), Ginger Rogers (1911), Steve Buscemi (1957), Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. (1915), and Linda Hamilton (1956).

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Among JOURNALISTS In United States

Among journalists born in United States, John Reed ranks 3. Before him are Anna Politkovskaya (1958), and Dorothea Lange (1895). After him are W. Eugene Smith (1918), Lee Miller (1907), Tucker Carlson (1969), Edgar Snow (1905), Charles Dow (1851), Diana Nyad (1949), Steve McCurry (1950), Walker Evans (1903), and Margaret Bourke-White (1904).

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