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Malvina Reynolds

1900 - 1978

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Malvina Reynolds (August 23, 1900 – March 17, 1978) was an American folk/blues singer-songwriter and political activist, best known for her songwriting, particularly the songs "Little Boxes", "What Have They Done to the Rain" and "Morningtown Ride". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Malvina Reynolds has received more than 440,478 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Malvina Reynolds is the 1,499th most popular singer (up from 1,852nd in 2019), the 7,770th most popular biography from United States (up from 10,052nd in 2019) and the 364th most popular American Singer.

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  • 440k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.72

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.72

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.61

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SINGERS

Among singers, Malvina Reynolds ranks 1,499 out of 4,381Before her are Mary Garden, Henri Dès, Sally Yeh, Tom Lehrer, Florence Ballard, and Danièle Dupré. After her are François Deguelt, Lolita Milyavskaya, Zemfira, Diane Warren, Mandy Moore, and Valentina Monetta.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Malvina Reynolds ranks 250Before her are Alice Neel, Zenón Noriega Agüero, Zoltán Lajos Bay, Stamatios Nikolopoulos, Simon Janashia, and Colin Clive. After her are Jacques Moeschal, David Hand, Josip Primožič, Henry Petersen, Teóphilo Bettencourt Pereira, and Roman Steinberg. Among people deceased in 1978, Malvina Reynolds ranks 198Before her are Greta Johansson, Maurice Carême, Paul Yü Pin, Oscar Homolka, Isidro Ayora, and Gregor Wentzel. After her are Cyrille Adoula, Will Geer, Jorge Icaza Coronel, Jesús Glaría, Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, and Adolf van der Voort van Zijp.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Malvina Reynolds ranks 7,770 out of 20,380Before her are Ninja (1991), Trey Parker (1969), Robert Kramer (1939), Rudy Tomjanovich (1948), Carl A. Wirtanen (1910), and Arnie Robinson (1948). After her are Michael Beach (1963), John Norton (1893), John W. Snow (1939), Dane DeHaan (1986), David LaChapelle (1963), and Barnard Hughes (1915).

Among SINGERS In United States

Among singers born in United States, Malvina Reynolds ranks 364Before her are Jello Biafra (1958), Bob Welch (1945), Evelyn Lear (1926), Darlene Love (1941), Tom Lehrer (1928), and Florence Ballard (1943). After her are Diane Warren (1956), Mandy Moore (1984), Esther Phillips (1935), George Thorogood (1950), Randy Jones (1952), and Nick Carter (1980).