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Marie Colvin

1956 - 2012

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Marie Catherine Colvin (January 12, 1956 – February 22, 2012) was an American journalist who worked as a foreign affairs correspondent for the British newspaper The Sunday Times from 1985 until her death. She was one of the most prominent war correspondents of her generation, widely recognized for her extensive coverage on the frontlines of various conflicts across the globe. On February 22, 2012, while she was covering the siege of Homs alongside the French photojournalist Rémi Ochlik, the pair were killed in a targeted attack made by Syrian government forces.After her death, Stony Brook University established the Marie Colvin Center for International Reporting in her honor. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marie Colvin has received more than 2,171,592 page views. Her biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Marie Colvin is the 66th most popular journalist (down from 39th in 2019), the 5,309th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,403rd in 2019) and the 17th most popular American Journalist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.14

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.10

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Marie Colvins by language

Over the past year Marie Colvin has had the most page views in the with 125,225 views, followed by Spanish (9,805), and Italian (7,448). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Finnish (761.78%), Uzbek (221.15%), and Polish (44.66%)

Among JOURNALISTS

Among journalists, Marie Colvin ranks 66 out of 196. Before her are Plínio Salgado, Selma Rıza, Veronica Guerin, Ernst Haas, Vladimir Solovyov, and Jacob Riis. After her are Maurizio Costanzo, Piers Morgan, Marina Ovsyannikova, Kanno Sugako, Don McCullin, and Martin Parr.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1956, Marie Colvin ranks 215. Before her are Said Belqola, Mark Rolston, Peter R. de Vries, Ann Dowd, Mae Jemison, and Sunny Deol. After her are Paulo Autuori, Michael Angelo Batio, Jack Sherman, Dominique Blanc, Hans Enoksen, and Matthew Garber. Among people deceased in 2012, Marie Colvin ranks 232. Before her are Paul Pietsch, Xenia Stad-de Jong, Emmanuel Scheffer, Émile Allais, William Windom, and R. G. Armstrong. After her are André Simon, Dara Singh, John Christopher, Yash Chopra, Sergey Kapitsa, and Hector Bianciotti.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Marie Colvin ranks 5,309 out of 20,380. Before her are Beth Hart (1972), Barry Bonds (1964), John King Fairbank (1907), Albert Collins (1932), Morgan Taylor (1903), and William Daniels (1927). After her are Jon Postel (1943), Bret Harte (1836), Robert Axelrod (1943), Elizabeth Perkins (1960), Harry Langdon (1884), and Bob Kiesel (1911).

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Among JOURNALISTS In United States

Among journalists born in United States, Marie Colvin ranks 17. Before her are Walker Evans (1903), Margaret Bourke-White (1904), Joe Rosenthal (1911), Eddie Adams (1933), Eve Arnold (1912), and Edward R. Murrow (1908). After her are Dan Rather (1931), James Nachtwey (1948), Pauline Pfeiffer (1895), James Foley (1973), Malcolm Browne (1931), and Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864).

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