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Oriana Fallaci

1929 - 2006

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Oriana Fallaci (Italian: [oˈrjaːna falˈlaːtʃi]; 29 June 1929 – 15 September 2006) was an Italian journalist and author. A partisan during World War II, she had a long and successful journalistic career. Fallaci became famous worldwide for her coverage of war and revolution, and her "long, aggressive and revealing interviews" with many world leaders during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.Her book Interview with History contains interviews with Indira Gandhi, Golda Meir, Yasser Arafat, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Willy Brandt, Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and Henry Kissinger, South Vietnamese President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, and North Vietnamese General Võ Nguyên Giáp during the Vietnam War. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Oriana Fallaci has received more than 908,180 page views. Her biography is available in 59 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 57 in 2019). Oriana Fallaci is the 3rd most popular journalist, the 504th most popular biography from Italy (down from 443rd in 2019) and the most popular Italian Journalist.

Oriana Fallaci was a journalist who wrote about the Vietnam War and the Six-Day War. She is most famous for her book "The Rage and the Pride," which was about the September 11th terrorist attacks.

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  • 59

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  • 5.75

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  • 4.26

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Among JOURNALISTS

Among journalists, Oriana Fallaci ranks 3 out of 127Before her are Robert Capa and Richard Sorge. After her are François-Noël Babeuf, Gianni Rodari, Joseph Pulitzer, Gerda Taro, Anna Politkovskaya, Sebastião Salgado, Julian Assange, John Reed, and Dorothea Lange.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Oriana Fallaci ranks 27Before her are Christopher Plummer, Irene Papas, Michael Ende, Sándor Kocsis, Peter Higgs, and Chet Baker. After her are Karolos Papoulias, Tigran Petrosian, Babrak Karmal, Graham Hill, Djalma Santos, and Bill Evans. Among people deceased in 2006, Oriana Fallaci ranks 15Before her are Saparmurat Niyazov, James Brown, Desmond Doss, Heinrich Harrer, Alfredo Stroessner, and Philippe Noiret. After her are Syd Barrett, György Ligeti, Owen Chamberlain, Joseph Barbera, Ibrahim Rugova, and Clifford Geertz.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Oriana Fallaci ranks 504 out of 4,668Before her are Pope Anterus (180), Pope Sergius I (650), Pope Innocent II (1100), Trebonianus Gallus (206), Fabio Capello (1946), and Pope Agapetus II (900). After her are Franco Nero (1941), Pope-elect Stephen (700), Francesco Redi (1626), Edmondo De Amicis (1846), Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1541), and Totila (500).

Among JOURNALISTS In Italy

Among journalists born in Italy, Oriana Fallaci ranks 1After her are Gianni Rodari (1920) and Rosanna Marani (1946).