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Lee Miller

1907 - 1977

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Elizabeth "Lee" Miller, Lady Penrose (April 23, 1907 – July 21, 1977), was an American photographer and photojournalist. Miller was a fashion model in New York City in the 1920s before going to Paris, becoming a fashion and fine-art photographer there. During World War II, she was a war correspondent for Vogue, covering events such as the London Blitz, the liberation of Paris and the concentration camps at Buchenwald and Dachau. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lee Miller has received more than 2,525,065 page views. Her biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Lee Miller is the 18th most popular journalist (down from 15th in 2019), the 1,539th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,021st in 2019) and the 5th most popular American Journalist.

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  • 2.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.81

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.85

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.88

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among JOURNALISTS

Among journalists, Lee Miller ranks 18 out of 196. Before her are Dorothea Lange, John Reed, Beate Klarsfeld, Victor Noir, W. Eugene Smith, and Alexander Berkman. After her are Endre Ady, Aenne Burda, Gareth Jones, Jeremy Clarkson, Tucker Carlson, and Jean-Marie Balestre.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Lee Miller ranks 65. Before her are Ray Milland, Sigvard Bernadotte, Ernesto Geisel, Miklós Rózsa, Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, and Chūya Nakahara. After her are Giovanni Ferrari, Emilie Schindler, Horia Sima, Mehdi Bazargan, Fabian von Schlabrendorff, and Cesar Romero. Among people deceased in 1977, Lee Miller ranks 46. Before her are Alia Al-Hussein, Olave Baden-Powell, Oskar Morgenstern, Naum Gabo, Modibo Keïta, and Kamal Jumblatt. After her are Sepp Herberger, Stephen Boyd, Jan Patočka, Leopold Stokowski, Princess Margaretha of Sweden, and Bruno Streckenbach.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Lee Miller ranks 1,539 out of 20,380. Before her are Murray Bookchin (1921), Alex Jones (1974), Pat Nixon (1912), Robert Loggia (1930), Percy Spencer (1894), and Lil Wayne (1982). After her are Gus Van Sant (1952), Sam Elliott (1944), Chris Cornell (1964), Richard Jenkins (1947), Jan-Michael Vincent (1944), and Edwin S. Porter (1870).

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Among JOURNALISTS In United States

Among journalists born in United States, Lee Miller ranks 5. Before her are Anna Politkovskaya (1958), Dorothea Lange (1895), John Reed (1887), and W. Eugene Smith (1918). After her are 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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