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Paul Alexander

1946 - 2024

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Paul Richard Alexander (January 30, 1946 – March 11, 2024) was an American paralytic polio survivor, lawyer and writer. The last man to live in an iron lung, he contracted polio in 1952 at the age of six. Alexander earned a bachelor's degree and Juris Doctor at the University of Texas at Austin, and was admitted to the bar in 1986. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Alexander has received more than 88,572 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Alexander is the 57th most popular lawyer, the 4,643rd most popular biography from United States and the 8th most popular American Lawyer.

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  • 89k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.26

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.45

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.53

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among LAWYERS

Among lawyers, Paul Alexander ranks 57 out of 136. Before him are Dmitry Bogrov, Radhabinod Pal, Valtazar Bogišić, Johann Kaspar Bluntschli, Jean Domat, and Alberico Gentili. After him are Hisashi Owada, Hersch Lauterpacht, Louis Brandeis, Roy Cohn, René David, and Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr..

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Paul Alexander ranks 352. Before him are Carmine Appice, Óscar Berger, Christopher Hampton, Dan O'Bannon, Sher Bahadur Deuba, and Joel Camargo. After him are Milena Canonero, Joseph Sifakis, Ian McDonald, Akira Kamiya, Richard Carpenter, and Roland Sandberg. Among people deceased in 2024, Paul Alexander ranks 216. Before him are Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, Roland Dumas, Stefan Abadzhiev, Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow, John Bruton, and Muhammed Faris. After him are Yukio Kasaya, Damo Suzuki, Jorge Griffa, Edna O'Brien, Mihaela Peneș, and Helen Fisher.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Paul Alexander ranks 4,643 out of 20,380. Before him are Robert Montgomery (1904), Savanna Samson (1967), Julie Adams (1926), Marilyn Horne (1934), D'arcy Wretzky (1968), and Herman Kahn (1922). After him are Charles Fort (1874), Olivia Wilde (1984), Norman Holter (1914), Evelyne Hall (1909), Al Jardine (1942), and Emmy Rossum (1986).

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Among LAWYERS In United States

Among lawyers born in United States, Paul Alexander ranks 8. Before him are Leo Frank (1884), John F. Kennedy Jr. (1960), Warren Christopher (1925), Alan Dershowitz (1938), Bill Gates Sr. (1925), and Robert Bilott (1965). After him are Louis Brandeis (1856), Roy Cohn (1927), Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841), James B. Donovan (1916), William Rehnquist (1924), and Wendell Willkie (1892).

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