WRITER

Phan Thi Kim Phuc

1963 - Today

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Phan Thị Kim Phúc (Vietnamese pronunciation: [faːŋ tʰɪ̂ˀ kim fúk͡p̚]; born April 6, 1963), referred to informally as the girl in the picture and the napalm girl, is a South Vietnamese-born Canadian woman best known as the nine-year-old child depicted in the Pulitzer Prize–winning photograph, titled The Terror of War, taken at Trảng Bàng during the Vietnam War on June 8, 1972. The image, taken for the Associated Press by a 21-year-old Vietnamese-American photographer named Nick Ut, shows her at nine years of age running naked on a road after being severely burned on her back by a South Vietnamese napalm attack. She later founded the Kim Phúc Foundation International to provide aid to child victims of war. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Phan Thi Kim Phuc has received more than 3,384,619 page views. Her biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Phan Thi Kim Phuc is the 3,518th most popular writer (down from 2,847th in 2019), the 78th most popular biography from Vietnam (down from 68th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Vietnamese Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 3.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.51

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.39

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.05

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Fire Road
2017

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Phan Thi Kim Phuc ranks 3,518 out of 7,302. Before her are Abraham Jacob van der Aa, Emmanuel Bove, Alexey Troitsky, Henri Alleg, Ferdinand Brunetière, and Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo. After her are He Zhizhang, Remigius of Auxerre, Johannes von Tepl, Arator, Sara Teasdale, and Edna St. Vincent Millay.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1963, Phan Thi Kim Phuc ranks 161. Before her are David Seaman, Phoolan Devi, Hans Gillhaus, Érik Comas, Hugh Bonneville, and Blaze Bayley. After her are Karl Markovics, Miroslav Lajčák, Aslan Bzhania, Elvira Nabiullina, Jørn Andersen, and John Carroll Lynch.

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In Vietnam

Among people born in Vietnam, Phan Thi Kim Phuc ranks 78 out of 136. Before her are Hiệp Hòa (1847), Hồ Quý Ly (1336), Tran Anh Hung (1962), Trần Nhân Tông (1258), Hoàng Văn Thái (1915), and Hồ Xuân Hương (1772). After her are Jonathan Ke Quan (1971), Chantal Goya (1942), Trần Văn Trà (1919), Võ Văn Kiệt (1922), Henri Laborit (1914), and Phan Văn Khải (1934).

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Among WRITERS In Vietnam

Among writers born in Vietnam, Phan Thi Kim Phuc ranks 5. Before her are Marguerite Duras (1914), Phan Bội Châu (1867), Nguyễn Du (1765), and Hồ Xuân Hương (1772). After her are Dương Thu Hương (1947), Kim Thúy (1968), and Viet Thanh Nguyen (1971).

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