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Joseph D. Pistone

1939 - Today

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Joseph Dominick Pistone (born September 17, 1939) is an American former FBI agent who worked undercover as Donnie Brasco between September 1976 and July 1981, as part of an infiltration primarily into the Bonanno crime family, and to a lesser extent the Colombo crime family, two of the Five Families of the Mafia in New York City. Pistone was an FBI agent for 17 years, from 1969 until he resigned in 1986. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph D. Pistone has received more than 4,122,794 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Joseph D. Pistone is the 1,768th most popular writer (up from 2,710th in 2019), the 2,292nd most popular biography from United States (up from 3,475th in 2019) and the 210th most popular American Writer.

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  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.67

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  • 2.60

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Joseph D. Pistone ranks 1,768 out of 5,755. Before him are Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy, Stanisław Wyspiański, Christian Jacq, Otto IV, Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal, Corax of Syracuse, and Fredric Jameson. After him are Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Eliza Orzeszkowa, Alexander Imich, Peter Shaffer, Alejandra Pizarnik, and Harivansh Rai Bachchan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Joseph D. Pistone ranks 120. Before him are Fred Willard, Neil Sedaka, Alexandros Panagoulis, Veruschka von Lehndorff, Michu Meszaros, and Karel Brückner. After him are Barbara Liskov, Velibor Vasović, Tarcisio Burgnich, Stanisław Dziwisz, Boris Kolker, and Pilar Bardem.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joseph D. Pistone ranks 2,292 out of 18,182. Before him are Marvin Harris (1927), Andrew Wyeth (1917), Gerard Damiano (1928), Michael Rosbash (1944), Peggy Lee (1920), and Fredric Jameson (1934). After him are Jason Bateman (1969), James Levine (1943), Bea Arthur (1922), Don Cheadle (1964), Tod Browning (1880), and Billy Zane (1966).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Joseph D. Pistone ranks 210. Before him are Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919), E. Howard Hunt (1918), Patricia Cornwell (1956), Raymond E. Feist (1945), Edmond Hamilton (1904), and Fredric Jameson (1934). After him are Bernard Malamud (1914), Robert Silverberg (1935), Donald E. Westlake (1933), Cornell Woolrich (1903), Maria Shriver (1955), and Herman J. Mankiewicz (1897).

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