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Marilyn Ferguson

1938 - 2008

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Marilyn Ferguson (April 5, 1938, in Grand Junction, Colorado – October 19, 2008) was an American author, editor and public speaker known for her 1980 book The Aquarian Conspiracy, which is connected with the New Age Movement. Ferguson published and edited the well-regarded science newsletter Brain/Mind Bulletin from 1975 to 1996. She eventually earned several honorary degrees, served on the board of directors of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, and befriended such diverse figures of influence as inventor and theorist Buckminster Fuller, spiritual author Ram Dass, Nobel Prize-winning chemist Ilya Prigogine and billionaire Ted Turner. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marilyn Ferguson has received more than 161,462 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Marilyn Ferguson is the 5,595th most popular writer (down from 4,991st in 2019), the 8,406th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,425th in 2019) and the 648th most popular American Writer.

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  • 160k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.00

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.18

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.27

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Marilyn Ferguson ranks 5,595 out of 7,302. Before her are Luigi Galleani, George Lillo, Yordan Radichkov, Fang Fang, Åsne Seierstad, and J. Slauerhoff. After her are Otokar Březina, Cassandra Fedele, Ha Jin, Whittaker Chambers, L. J. Smith, and James C. Collins.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Marilyn Ferguson ranks 457. Before her are Jacques Diouf, Hervé de Charette, Vladislav Krapivin, Betty Missiego, Pedro Zaballa, and Romano Fogli. After her are Lewis Teague, Árpád Orbán, Alan Rees, Bobby Hebb, David Canary, and Paddy Moloney. Among people deceased in 2008, Marilyn Ferguson ranks 289. Before her are Peter Poreku Dery, Jesse Helms, Richey Edwards, Rubén Héctor Sosa, Frank Piasecki, and Ai Iijima. After her are Don McKenzie, Finn Haunstoft, Laurus Škurla, Antonio José González Zumárraga, Árpád Orbán, and Dingiri Banda Wijetunga.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Marilyn Ferguson ranks 8,406 out of 20,380. Before her are Gail Goodrich (1943), Sam Harris (1967), Frankie Manning (1914), John Michael Talbot (1954), Virgil Thomson (1896), and Della Reese (1931). After her are Phil Harris (1904), Greg Grunberg (1966), Johnny Burnette (1934), Christine Ebersole (1953), Marco Rubio (1971), and Martin Mull (1943).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Marilyn Ferguson ranks 648. Before her are Grace Paley (1922), Larry McMurtry (1936), Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884), Barbara Ehrenreich (1941), Steven Millhauser (1943), and Madeleine L'Engle (1918). After her are Whittaker Chambers (1901), L. J. Smith (1965), James C. Collins (1958), Judith Krantz (1928), Howard Ashman (1950), and Lin Carter (1930).

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