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Patch Adams

1945 - Today

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Hunter Doherty "Patch" Adams (born May 28, 1945) is an American physician, comedian, social activist, clown, and author. He founded the Gesundheit! Institute as a not-for-profit in 1989. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Patch Adams has received more than 4,251,966 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Patch Adams is the 226th most popular physician (down from 177th in 2019), the 1,833rd most popular biography from United States (down from 1,409th in 2019) and the 24th most popular American Physician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 4.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.53

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.64

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.59

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Patch Adams ranks 226 out of 726. Before him are Carl von Rokitansky, Karl Adolph von Basedow, Philipp Franz von Siebold, Paul of Aegina, Barry Marshall, and Bernard Kouchner. After him are Regnier de Graaf, Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol, Leander of Seville, Tasuku Honjo, Johann Weyer, and Aletta Jacobs.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Patch Adams ranks 118. Before him are John Garang, Wim Suurbier, Ladislao Mazurkiewicz, Igor Ivanov, George Alencherry, and Angus Deaton. After him are Željko Bebek, Franco Battiato, Pat Riley, Richard R. Schrock, Wolfgang Schüssel, and Peter Criss.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Patch Adams ranks 1,833 out of 20,380. Before him are Cab Calloway (1907), Dorothea Klumpke (1861), Sam Raimi (1959), Axl Rose (1962), Jack Swigert (1931), and Count Basie (1904). After him are Mary Steenburgen (1953), Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848), Tom Regan (1938), Marcia Cross (1962), Nina Hartley (1959), and Richard Schiff (1955).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, Patch Adams ranks 24. Before him are Robin Cook (1940), Michael Stuart Brown (1941), Joseph Murray (1919), Louis Ignarro (1941), Peter Agre (1949), and Baruch Samuel Blumberg (1925). After him are Randy Schekman (1948), Henry Heimlich (1920), Robert Lefkowitz (1943), John O'Keefe (1939), John Harvey Kellogg (1852), and Daniel Carleton Gajdusek (1923).

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