1946 - Today
Ronald Lawrence Kovic (born July 4, 1946) is an American anti-war activist, author, and United States Marine Corps sergeant who was wounded and paralyzed in the Vietnam War. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ron Kovic has received more than 2,027,617 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Ron Kovic is the 3,758th most popular writer (down from 3,034th in 2019), the 5,025th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,915th in 2019) and the 422nd most popular American Writer.
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Among writers, Ron Kovic ranks 3,758 out of 5,755. Before him are James Krüss, Rūdolfs Blaumanis, Yahya Kemal Beyatlı, Yun Seondo, Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, and Viktor Yerofeyev. After him are Azalais de Porcairagues, Antonio Buero Vallejo, Malak Hifni Nasif, Arthur Waley, Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz, and Isidore Isou.
1926 - 1997
HPI: 49.39
Rank: 3,752
1863 - 1908
HPI: 49.39
Rank: 3,753
1884 - 1958
HPI: 49.39
Rank: 3,754
1587 - 1671
HPI: 49.39
Rank: 3,755
1814 - 1873
HPI: 49.39
Rank: 3,756
1947 - Present
HPI: 49.39
Rank: 3,757
1946 - Present
HPI: 49.39
Rank: 3,758
HPI: 49.39
Rank: 3,759
1916 - 2000
HPI: 49.39
Rank: 3,760
1886 - 1918
HPI: 49.38
Rank: 3,761
1889 - 1966
HPI: 49.37
Rank: 3,762
1898 - 1939
HPI: 49.37
Rank: 3,763
1925 - 2007
HPI: 49.37
Rank: 3,764
Among people born in 1946, Ron Kovic ranks 340. Before him are Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Hanan Ashrawi, Jürgen Croy, Richard Carpenter, Yaroslav Yevdokimov, and Gerrie Mühren. After him are Frank Marshall, Joel Camargo, Gitte Hænning, Keith Mitchell, Barry Hulshoff, and Abdul Rasul Sayyaf.
1946 - 2005
HPI: 49.57
Rank: 334
1946 - Present
HPI: 49.52
Rank: 335
1946 - Present
HPI: 49.48
Rank: 336
1946 - Present
HPI: 49.46
Rank: 337
1946 - Present
HPI: 49.45
Rank: 338
1946 - 2013
HPI: 49.45
Rank: 339
1946 - Present
HPI: 49.39
Rank: 340
1946 - Present
HPI: 49.38
Rank: 341
1946 - 2014
HPI: 49.30
Rank: 342
1946 - Present
HPI: 49.30
Rank: 343
1946 - Present
HPI: 49.29
Rank: 344
1946 - 2020
HPI: 49.27
Rank: 345
1946 - Present
HPI: 49.25
Rank: 346
Among people born in United States, Ron Kovic ranks 5,025 out of 18,182. Before him are Evelyn Berezin (1925), Swoosie Kurtz (1944), Sargent Shriver (1915), Johnny Nash (1940), Woody Herman (1913), and Wallace Clement Sabine (1868). After him are David Rasche (1944), Louis Leon Thurstone (1887), Brendan Eich (1961), Frank Marshall (1946), Peter Sarsgaard (1971), and William D. Leahy (1875).
1925 - 2018
HPI: 49.40
Rank: 5,019
1944 - Present
HPI: 49.39
Rank: 5,020
1915 - 2011
HPI: 49.39
Rank: 5,021
1940 - 2020
HPI: 49.39
Rank: 5,022
1913 - 1987
HPI: 49.39
Rank: 5,023
1868 - 1919
HPI: 49.39
Rank: 5,024
1946 - Present
HPI: 49.39
Rank: 5,025
1944 - Present
HPI: 49.38
Rank: 5,026
1887 - 1955
HPI: 49.38
Rank: 5,027
1961 - Present
HPI: 49.38
Rank: 5,028
1946 - Present
HPI: 49.38
Rank: 5,029
1971 - Present
HPI: 49.38
Rank: 5,030
1875 - 1959
HPI: 49.38
Rank: 5,031
Among writers born in United States, Ron Kovic ranks 422. Before him are Henry Adams (1838), Sue Grafton (1940), Gloria Vanderbilt (1924), David Baldacci (1960), Sandra Brown (1948), and David Brin (1950). After him are C. J. Cherryh (1942), V. C. Andrews (1923), James Thurber (1894), Saul Alinsky (1909), Maxwell Anderson (1888), and Bret Harte (1836).
1838 - 1918
HPI: 49.48
Rank: 416
1940 - 2017
HPI: 49.47
Rank: 417
1924 - 2019
HPI: 49.46
Rank: 418
1960 - Present
HPI: 49.44
Rank: 419
1948 - Present
HPI: 49.42
Rank: 420
1950 - Present
HPI: 49.40
Rank: 421
1946 - Present
HPI: 49.39
Rank: 422
1942 - Present
HPI: 49.32
Rank: 423
1923 - 1986
HPI: 49.32
Rank: 424
1894 - 1961
HPI: 49.28
Rank: 425
1909 - 1972
HPI: 49.28
Rank: 426
1888 - 1959
HPI: 49.27
Rank: 427
1836 - 1902
HPI: 49.25
Rank: 428