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Julian Assange

1971 - Today

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Julian Paul Assange ( ə-SAHNZH; né Hawkins; born 3 July 1971) is an Australian editor, publisher, and activist who founded WikiLeaks in 2006. He came to international attention in 2010 after WikiLeaks published a series of leaks from Chelsea Manning, a United States Army intelligence analyst: footage of a U.S. airstrike in Baghdad, U.S. military logs from the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, and U.S. diplomatic cables. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Julian Assange has received more than 25,574,072 page views. His biography is available in 102 different languages on Wikipedia. Julian Assange is the 11th most popular journalist (down from 10th in 2019), the 17th most popular biography from Australia (down from 15th in 2019) and the most popular Australian Journalist.

Julian Assange is most famous for being the founder of WikiLeaks, a website that publishes classified information.

Memorability Metrics

  • 26M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 63.86

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 102

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.46

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.55

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among JOURNALISTS

Among journalists, Julian Assange ranks 11 out of 196. Before him are Gianni Rodari, Joseph Pulitzer, Sebastião Salgado, Gerda Taro, Anna Politkovskaya, and Robert Guérin. After him are Dorothea Lange, John Reed, Beate Klarsfeld, Victor Noir, W. Eugene Smith, and Alexander Berkman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1971, Julian Assange ranks 9. Before him are Justin Trudeau, Jared Leto, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Pep Guardiola, Jada Pinkett Smith, and Anna Netrebko. After him are Winona Ryder, Idina Menzel, Mark Wahlberg, Jeremy Renner, Snoop Dogg, and Princess Märtha Louise of Norway.

Others Born in 1971

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, Julian Assange ranks 17 out of 1,143. Before him are Chris Hemsworth (1983), Alexander Prokhorov (1916), Margaret Court (1942), Margot Robbie (1990), Heath Ledger (1979), and Paul Hogan (1939). After him are Elizabeth Blackburn (1948), Jack Brabham (1926), Peter Weir (1944), Errol Flynn (1909), Colleen McCullough (1937), and Hugh Jackman (1968).

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Among JOURNALISTS In Australia

Among journalists born in Australia, Julian Assange ranks 1. After him are Liu Xiaoqian (1988).

Australian born Journalists

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