PHYSICIAN

Leila Denmark

1898 - 2012

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Leila Alice Denmark (née Daughtry; February 1, 1898 – April 1, 2012) was an American pediatrician in Atlanta, Georgia. She was the world's oldest practicing pediatrician until her retirement in May 2001 at the age of 103, after 73 years. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leila Denmark has received more than 193,627 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Leila Denmark is the 666th most popular physician (down from 539th in 2019), the 10,280th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,901st in 2019) and the 85th most popular American Physician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 190k

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  • 43.27

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.72

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Leila Denmark ranks 666 out of 726. Before her are Harald Natvig, Yoshioka Yayoi, Thomas Starzl, Abraham Jacobi, Thomas C. Jerdon, and Priscilla Chan. After her are Kei Okami, Alaa Najjar, Ran Laurie, Robert Spitzer, Indira Nath, and Richard Doll.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Leila Denmark ranks 287. Before her are Joe Spence, Hellmuth Kneser, Irving Rapper, Owen Barfield, Benno von Arent, and Gertrude Lawrence. After her are Happy Chandler, Roy Harris, Henry Louis Hudson, Rachel Fuller Brown, Albert Kivikas, and Stephen Vincent Benét. Among people deceased in 2012, Leila Denmark ranks 427. Before her are Mitch Lucker, Ruth Barcan Marcus, Johnny Otis, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, Adam Yauch, and Leszek Drogosz. After her are Jacqueline Mazéas, Robert B. Sherman, John Connelly, Nevin Çokay, Dirk Bach, and Reginald Hill.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Leila Denmark ranks 10,280 out of 20,380. Before her are John Casper (1943), Roland Burris (1937), Tony Ferguson (1984), Vivian Vance (1909), Steven Mnuchin (1962), and Irma P. Hall (1935). After her are Renée Fleming (1959), Robert A. M. Stern (1939), George B. Seitz (1888), Curtis Armstrong (1953), Wesley Coe (1879), and Thomas J. Hudner Jr. (1924).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, Leila Denmark ranks 85. Before her are Denton Cooley (1920), Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson (1878), John Heysham Gibbon (1903), James Ewing (1866), Thomas Starzl (1926), and Priscilla Chan (1985). After her are Robert Spitzer (1932), Samuel Gridley Howe (1801), Samuel George Morton (1799), Rachel Levine (1957), Bert Vogelstein (1949), and Charles R. Drew (1904).

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