PHYSICIAN

Mehmet Oz

1960 - Today

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Mehmet Cengiz Öz (meh-MET JENG-əz oz, Turkish: [mehˈmet dʒeɲˈɟiz øz]; born June 11, 1960), also known as Dr. Oz (), is an American television personality, physician, author, professor emeritus of cardiothoracic surgery at Columbia University, former political candidate, and is slated to become the next administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on January 20, 2025. The son of Turkish immigrants, Oz was raised in Wilmington, Delaware, and graduated from Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania. A dual citizen of the U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mehmet Oz has received more than 10,563,438 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Mehmet Oz is the 354th most popular physician (up from 426th in 2019), the 3,271st most popular biography from United States (up from 4,421st in 2019) and the 39th most popular American Physician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 11M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.25

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.01

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.13

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Mehmet Oz ranks 354 out of 726Before him are Louis de Jaucourt, Johann Peter Frank, Anders Chydenius, Ernest Duchesne, Ewald Hering, and Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke. After him are Stamen Grigorov, Hilary Koprowski, Justinus Kerner, Jean Pierre Flourens, Robert Darwin, and Carlos Chagas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Mehmet Oz ranks 113Before him are Mauro Tassotti, Erin Brockovich, Jennifer Rush, Yves Leterme, Stefano Casiraghi, and Bako Sahakyan. After him are Aymen Benabderrahmane, Michael Stipe, Julio César Romero, Hussein al-Houthi, Damon Wayans, and Benigno Aquino III.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mehmet Oz ranks 3,271 out of 20,380Before him are Ron Carter (1937), Joan Jett (1958), Chuck Schumer (1950), Michael Parks (1940), Bruce Boxleitner (1950), and Dan Blocker (1928). After him are Max Baer (1909), Victor Young (1900), John C. Reilly (1965), Diane Baker (1938), Elmore Leonard (1925), and Ted Nelson (1937).

Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, Mehmet Oz ranks 39Before him are Drew Weissman (1959), Horace Wells (1815), James Curtis Hepburn (1815), Jack Kevorkian (1928), William Bates (1860), and Anthony Fauci (1940). After him are Walter Jackson Freeman II (1895), Andrew Taylor Still (1828), Warren Sturgis McCulloch (1898), Gregg L. Semenza (1956), Philip Showalter Hench (1896), and William Stewart Halsted (1852).