JOURNALIST

Malcolm Browne

1931 - 2012

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Malcolm Wilde Browne (April 17, 1931 – August 27, 2012) was an American journalist and photographer, best known for his award-winning photograph of the self-immolation of Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức in 1963. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Malcolm Browne has received more than 365,875 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Malcolm Browne is the 89th most popular journalist (down from 73rd in 2019), the 7,287th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,457th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular American Journalist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 370k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.16

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.05

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among JOURNALISTS

Among journalists, Malcolm Browne ranks 89 out of 196. Before him are Aleksey Suvorin, Caroline Rémy de Guebhard, Michaëlle Jean, James Nachtwey, Pauline Pfeiffer, and James Foley. After him are Murray Walker, Jon Ola Sand, Kenji Goto, Carol Thatcher, Tsuneko Sasamoto, and Bianca Maria Piccinino.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Malcolm Browne ranks 411. Before him are Shuhrat Abbosov, István Gulyás, Yaakov Ziv, Ignatius Kutu Acheampong, Raúl Belén, and Riane Eisler. After him are Anahita Ratebzad, Luciano Tesi, Agustín García-Gasco Vicente, Richard Murphy, Walter Taibo, and Géza Gulyás. Among people deceased in 2012, Malcolm Browne ranks 311. Before him are Adolfo Schwelm Cruz, Nils Karlsson, Othmar Schneider, Viktor Kosichkin, Elza Ibrahimova, and Arkady Vorobyov. After him are Antonio Cubillo, Rino Ferrario, Gu Chaohao, Franz West, Gunnar Sønsteby, and Roberto Mieres.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Malcolm Browne ranks 7,287 out of 20,380. Before him are Bill Maher (1956), James Algar (1912), Frank Norris (1870), Ricardo Antonio Chavira (1971), Pauline Oliveros (1932), and Larry Graham (1946). After him are Michael Stonebraker (1943), Joel Chandler Harris (1848), Khloé Kardashian (1984), Edward Everett Horton (1886), Gary Merrill (1915), and Ken Foree (1948).

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Among JOURNALISTS In United States

Among journalists born in United States, Malcolm Browne ranks 22. Before him are Edward R. Murrow (1908), Marie Colvin (1956), Dan Rather (1931), James Nachtwey (1948), Pauline Pfeiffer (1895), and James Foley (1973). After him are Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864), Harriet Quimby (1875), Diane Sawyer (1945), Geraldo Rivera (1943), Dorothy Thompson (1893), and Megyn Kelly (1970).

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