WRITER

Marta Kauffman

1956 - Today

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Marta Fran Kauffman (born 21 September 1956) is an American television writer and producer. She is best known as the co-creator of the NBC sitcom Friends with her longtime friend, David Crane; Crane and Kauffman similarly were in a friend group with four other people. Both Kauffman and Crane were also executive producers of the show, along with Kevin Bright. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marta Kauffman has received more than 2,465,303 page views. Her biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Marta Kauffman is the 3,661st most popular writer (down from 3,562nd in 2019), the 4,689th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,727th in 2019) and the 390th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.16

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.79

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.39

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Marta Kauffman ranks 3,661 out of 7,302. Before her are Johan Herman Wessel, Firaq Gorakhpuri, Guillaume Musso, Richard Yates, Tevfik Fikret, and Sylvia Nasar. After her are Olympia Fulvia Morata, Qul Ghali, Antero de Quental, Natalya Gorbanevskaya, Nagarjun, and Philoxenus of Cythera.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1956, Marta Kauffman ranks 185. Before her are Brett Cullen, David Card, Ahmad Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, Saadeddine Othmani, Richard Curtis, and Keith David. After her are Hanni Wenzel, Bernd Förster, Pierre Lévy, Blackie Lawless, Martin Jol, and Catherine Frot.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Marta Kauffman ranks 4,689 out of 20,380. Before her are Richard Yates (1926), Radia Perlman (1951), Ruth Teitelbaum (1924), Estelle Harris (1928), Seymour Cray (1925), and Michael Shannon (1974). After her are Peter Jacobson (1965), Esai Morales (1962), Ed Ablowich (1913), Frankie Faison (1949), Adlai Stevenson I (1835), and Ram Dass (1931).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Marta Kauffman ranks 390. Before her are Emma Lazarus (1849), James Tiptree Jr. (1915), Charles Fort (1874), Lillian Hellman (1905), John Ashbery (1927), and Richard Yates (1926). After her are Helen Churchill Candee (1858), Thomas Friedman (1953), Robert Leckie (1920), Joe Haldeman (1943), Janet Asimov (1926), and James A. Michener (1907).

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