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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 179,130 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Leila Denmark is the 540th most popular physician (down from 460th in 2019), the 6,915th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,342nd in 2019) and the 61st most popular American Physician.

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  • 46.06

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  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.77

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  • 2.50

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Leila Denmark ranks 540 out of 502Before her are Akira Endo, Eva Klein, Thomas Erastus, Astley Cooper, Édouard Gagnon, and Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar. After her are Halfdan T. Mahler, Türkan Saylan, Matilde Hidalgo, Vilma Hugonnai, Arvo Ylppö, and Gustav Fischer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Leila Denmark ranks 200Before her are Mikhail Artamonov, Johan Richthoff, Jim Fouché, Marilyn Miller, Luis Muñoz Marín, and Ernst Ahl. After her are Arthur Legat, Antonio Urdinarán, Richmond Landon, Eero Berg, Eero Lehtonen, and Hisamuddin of Selangor. Among people deceased in 2012, Leila Denmark ranks 283Before her are Franz West, Ahmed Jabari, Norman Joseph Woodland, Albert George Wilson, Barney McKenna, and Roland Moreno. After her are Lennart Samuelsson, Kurt Maetzig, Emmanuel Scheffer, J. Bernlef, Nils Karlsson, and Igor Kvasha.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Leila Denmark ranks 6,915 out of 18,182Before her are Bruce Kirby (1925), Jim Root (1971), Gina Raimondo (1971), Riley Reid (1991), Khloé Kardashian (1984), and John W. Foster (1836). After her are John Lurie (1952), Eileen Collins (1956), Blind Blake (1893), Martha Mansfield (1899), Mimi Leder (1952), and Kvitka Cisyk (1953).

Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, Leila Denmark ranks 61Before her are Ancel Keys (1904), William Beaumont (1785), Russell M. Nelson (1924), Florence R. Sabin (1871), Joel Roberts Poinsett (1779), and Walter Reed (1851). After her are Robert Atkins (1930), Dorothy Hansine Andersen (1901), Thomas Horsfield (1773), Bernard Nathanson (1926), John Jeffries (1745), and John Ostrom (1928).