WRITER

Maria Shriver

1955 - Today

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Maria Owings Shriver ( SHRY-vər; born November 6, 1955) is an American journalist, author, a member of the prominent Shriver and Kennedy families, former First Lady of California, and the founder of the nonprofit organization The Women's Alzheimer's Movement. She was married to former governor of California and actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, from whom she filed for divorce in 2011; it was finalized in 2021. Shriver began her journalism career at CBS station KYW-TV and briefly anchored the CBS Morning News before joining NBC News in 1986. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maria Shriver has received more than 17,858,849 page views. Her biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Maria Shriver is the 1,341st most popular writer (up from 1,823rd in 2019), the 1,632nd most popular biography from United States (up from 2,370th in 2019) and the 148th most popular American Writer.

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  • 18M

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  • 65.12

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.15

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.68

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Maria Shriver ranks 1,341 out of 7,302Before her are Yan Fu, Callinus, Christine Nöstlinger, Ida Laura Pfeiffer, Sergey Mikhalkov, and Chernorizets Hrabar. After her are Kurt Tucholsky, Henri Murger, Nadezhda Mandelstam, Adalberon, Edith Södergran, and Georgi Markov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Maria Shriver ranks 69Before her are Billy Idol, Eddie Van Halen, Adem Jashari, Béla Tarr, José Antonio Camacho, and Billy Milligan. After her are Toninho Cerezo, Griffin Dunne, Tanya Roberts, Kazuyoshi Nakamura, Emine Erdoğan, and Egils Levits.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Maria Shriver ranks 1,632 out of 20,380Before her are Richard Smalley (1943), John Sturges (1910), George C. Scott (1927), Raymond A. Spruance (1886), Harvey Milk (1930), and Luke Perry (1966). After her are Edward W. Morley (1838), Ethel Barrymore (1879), Mary Anderson (1862), Caroline Kennedy (1957), Jackie Coogan (1914), and Kyle MacLachlan (1959).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Maria Shriver ranks 148Before her are Poul Anderson (1926), Danielle Steel (1947), Eleanor H. Porter (1868), Ken Kesey (1935), Hunter S. Thompson (1937), and Anthony Bourdain (1956). After her are Jean M. Auel (1936), Thornton Wilder (1897), Diana Gabaldon (1952), Rex Stout (1886), Robert Wilson (1941), and Seymour Hersh (1937).