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Joss Whedon

1964 - Today

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Joseph Hill "Joss" Whedon ( WEE-dən; born June 23, 1964) is an American screenwriter, director, producer, comic book writer, and composer. He is best known as the creator of several television series: the supernatural drama Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003) and its spinoff Angel (1999–2004), the short-lived space Western Firefly (2002), the Internet musical miniseries Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (2008), the science fiction drama Dollhouse (2009–2010), the Marvel Cinematic Universe film The Avengers (2012) and series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joss Whedon has received more than 11,530,401 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Joss Whedon is the 3,560th most popular writer (down from 3,163rd in 2019), the 4,568th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,147th in 2019) and the 382nd most popular American Writer.

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  • 12M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.03

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 49

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.19

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.24

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Joss Whedon ranks 3,560 out of 7,302. Before him are Aboul-Qacem Echebbi, Gene Wolfe, Angelos Sikelianos, Natsuo Kirino, Tōson Shimazaki, and Edith Durham. After him are Oppian, Jorge de Montemor, Louis Adamic, Altaf Hussain Hali, George Gissing, and Lucía Sánchez Saornil.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1964, Joss Whedon ranks 147. Before him are John Norum, Sandro Rosell, Benoît Poelvoorde, Vladislav Surkov, Andrey Zvyagintsev, and Moussa Dadis Camara. After him are Chris Farley, Serhat, Neneh Cherry, Daphne Caruana Galizia, Willie Garson, and Ylva Johansson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joss Whedon ranks 4,568 out of 20,380. Before him are Michael Chang (1972), Dick Miller (1928), Stephen J. Cannell (1941), Bo Hopkins (1942), Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829), and Frank Frazetta (1928). After him are Steven Hill (1922), Lauren Cohan (1982), Marsha P. Johnson (1945), Brooke Adams (1949), Thom Barry (1950), and Steve James (1952).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Joss Whedon ranks 382. Before him are Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892), Kim Stanley Robinson (1952), Donald Barthelme (1931), Howard Pyle (1853), Cotton Mather (1663), and Gene Wolfe (1931). After him are Robert W. Chambers (1865), Emma Lazarus (1849), James Tiptree Jr. (1915), Charles Fort (1874), Lillian Hellman (1905), and John Ashbery (1927).

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