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Robert Capa

1913 - 1954

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Robert Capa (born Endre Ernő Friedmann; October 22, 1913 – May 25, 1954) was a Hungarian–American war photographer and photojournalist. He is considered by some to be the greatest combat and adventure photographer in history. Friedman had fled political repression in Hungary when he was a teenager, moving to Berlin, where he enrolled in college. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Capa has received more than 1,731,951 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Robert Capa is the most popular journalist, the 20th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 17th in 2019) and the most popular Hungarian Journalist.

Robert Capa is most famous for his photographs of the Normandy landings on D-Day.

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Among JOURNALISTS

Among journalists, Robert Capa ranks 1 out of 127. After him are Richard Sorge, Oriana Fallaci, 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 1913, Robert Capa ranks 9. Before him are Vivien Leigh, Rosa Parks, Gerald Ford, Willy Brandt, Menachem Begin, and Jean Marais. After him are Josef Bican, Jesse Owens, Burt Lancaster, Claude Simon, Klaus Barbie, and Paul Ricœur. Among people deceased in 1954, Robert Capa ranks 7. Before him are Frida Kahlo, Alan Turing, Henri Matisse, Enrico Fermi, Heinz Guderian, and Colette. After him are Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, Princess Märtha of Sweden, André Derain, Getúlio Vargas, Alcide De Gasperi, and Wilhelm Furtwängler.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Robert Capa ranks 20 out of 866. Before him are Ignaz Semmelweis (1818), Gaiseric (389), Louis I of Hungary (1326), Imre Kertész (1929), Jadwiga of Poland (1374), and Count of St. Germain (1712). After him are Árpád (845), György Lukács (1885), Victor Vasarely (1906), Ernő Rubik (1944), Ilona Staller (1951), and Andrew II of Hungary (1175).

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Among JOURNALISTS In Hungary

Among journalists born in Hungary, Robert Capa ranks 1. After him are Joseph Pulitzer (1847).

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