JOURNALIST

Julian Assange

1971 - Today

Julian Assange

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 wide international attention in 2010 when WikiLeaks published a series of leaks from US Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning: footage of a US airstrike in Baghdad, US military logs from the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, and US diplomatic cables. Assange has won multiple awards for publishing and journalism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Julian Assange has received more than 22,705,809 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

23M
Page Views (PV)
63.86
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
102
Languages Editions (L)
6.46
Effective Languages (L*)
5.55
Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Julian Assanges by language

Over the past year Julian Assange has had the most page views in the English wikipedia edition with 2,730,991 views, followed by German (518,561), and Italian (420,552). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Bhojpuri (1,408.33%), Mongolian (137.99%), and Lombard (125.67%)

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.

Most Popular Journalists in Wikipedia

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Gianni Rodari
1920 - 1980
HPI: 68.16
Rank: 5
Joseph Pulitzer
1847 - 1911
HPI: 67.17
Rank: 6
Sebastião Salgado
1944 - Present
HPI: 66.70
Rank: 7
Gerda Taro
1910 - 1937
HPI: 66.58
Rank: 8
Anna Politkovskaya
1958 - 2006
HPI: 66.53
Rank: 9
Robert Guérin
1876 - 1952
HPI: 64.45
Rank: 10
Julian Assange
1971 - Present
HPI: 63.86
Rank: 11
Dorothea Lange
1895 - 1965
HPI: 63.66
Rank: 12
John Reed
1887 - 1920
HPI: 63.52
Rank: 13
Beate Klarsfeld
1939 - Present
HPI: 61.47
Rank: 14
Victor Noir
1848 - 1870
HPI: 61.06
Rank: 15
W. Eugene Smith
1918 - 1978
HPI: 60.04
Rank: 16
Alexander Berkman
1870 - 1936
HPI: 59.86
Rank: 17

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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Justin Trudeau
POLITICIAN
1971 - Present
HPI: 71.50
Rank: 3
Jared Leto
ACTOR
1971 - Present
HPI: 69.07
Rank: 4
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
EXTREMIST
1971 - 2019
HPI: 67.76
Rank: 5
Pep Guardiola
COACH
1971 - Present
HPI: 67.17
Rank: 6
Jada Pinkett Smith
ACTOR
1971 - Present
HPI: 65.65
Rank: 7
Anna Netrebko
SINGER
1971 - Present
HPI: 65.33
Rank: 8
Julian Assange
JOURNALIST
1971 - Present
HPI: 63.86
Rank: 9
Winona Ryder
ACTOR
1971 - Present
HPI: 63.45
Rank: 10
Idina Menzel
ACTOR
1971 - Present
HPI: 61.96
Rank: 11
Mark Wahlberg
ACTOR
1971 - Present
HPI: 61.93
Rank: 12
Jeremy Renner
ACTOR
1971 - Present
HPI: 61.70
Rank: 13
Snoop Dogg
MUSICIAN
1971 - Present
HPI: 61.38
Rank: 14
Princess Märtha Louise of Norway
POLITICIAN
1971 - Present
HPI: 61.06
Rank: 15