WRITER

Leo Buscaglia

1924 - 1998

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Felice Leonardo Buscaglia (March 31, 1924 – June 12, 1998), also known as "Dr. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leo Buscaglia has received more than 667,506 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Leo Buscaglia is the 5,238th most popular writer (down from 4,456th in 2019), the 7,576th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,235th in 2019) and the 590th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 670k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.95

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.68

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Leo Buscaglia ranks 5,238 out of 7,302. Before him are Svetlana Velmar-Janković, Franz Xaver Kroetz, Henriette Roland Holst, Ælfric of Eynsham, George Călinescu, and Alexander Ablesimov. After him are Áron Tamási, Sergei Lukyanenko, Kjell Espmark, Tua Forsström, Katherine Neville, and Georg Calixtus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Leo Buscaglia ranks 370. Before him are Princess Marie Adelaide of Luxembourg, Mel Patton, Lennart Samuelsson, Jackie Milburn, Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, and Klaus Junge. After him are Humberto Fernández-Morán, Claude Netter, Roy Bentley, Audouin Dollfus, Béla Zsitnik, and Eugene Dynkin. Among people deceased in 1998, Leo Buscaglia ranks 241. Before him are Betty Carter, Wendy O. Williams, Alice Faye, Charles Lang, André Chorda, and Jane Bell. After him are Bella Abzug, Gunnar Jansson, Mary Millar, Raymond E. Brown, Robert Young, and Jeanette Nolan.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Leo Buscaglia ranks 7,576 out of 20,380. Before him are Margaret Dumont (1882), Superstar Billy Graham (1943), Glenn Branca (1948), Jack Colvin (1934), George Irving (1874), and Jennifer Hudson (1981). After him are Barbara Feldon (1933), Chris Elliott (1960), Anthony Kennedy (1936), George J. Mitchell (1933), Arliss Howard (1954), and Marsden Hartley (1877).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Leo Buscaglia ranks 590. Before him are Rita Mae Brown (1944), Lester del Rey (1915), Louis L'Amour (1908), Theodora Kroeber (1897), William F. Buckley Jr. (1925), and Fran Lebowitz (1950). After him are Katherine Neville (1945), Thomas Ligotti (1953), William Cullen Bryant (1794), Candace Bushnell (1958), Sara Paretsky (1947), and Julia Ward Howe (1819).

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