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Ron Kovic

1946 - Today

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Ronald Lawrence Kovic (born July 4, 1946) is an American anti-war activist, writer, and former 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 1,435,896 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Ron Kovic is the 3,036th most popular writer (up from 3,268th in 2019), the 3,917th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,104th in 2019) and the 352nd most popular American Writer.

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  • 1.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 62.49

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.52

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.73

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ron Kovic ranks 3,036 out of 5,794. Before him are Gregory Benford, Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, José Donoso, Antonio García Gutiérrez, Arnold Bennett, and William Cowper. After him are Theodor Körner, Maximilian Voloshin, Salama Moussa, Jacques Delille, R. A. Salvatore, and Juan Fernández de Heredia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Ron Kovic ranks 246. Before him are Paul Davies, Milena Canonero, Bruce Buck, Blake Clark, Cheng Pei-pei, and Arnoldo Alemán. After him are Jean-Jacques Beineix, Joseph Deiss, Henryk Kasperczak, Camilo Sesto, Stan Winston, and William Thurston.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ron Kovic ranks 3,917 out of 15,968. Before him are Darlene Conley (1934), Vitas Gerulaitis (1954), Gregory Benford (1941), Tatum O'Neal (1963), Vanessa Hudgens (1988), and Berry Gordy (1929). After him are Linda Fiorentino (1958), Stuart Roosa (1933), Clarence Zener (1905), Michael Johnson (1967), Marc Mitscher (1887), and Bobby Driscoll (1937).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Ron Kovic ranks 352. Before him are Eric Carle (1929), John Perkins (1945), Vince Gilligan (1967), Henry Kuttner (1915), James A. Michener (1907), and Gregory Benford (1941). After him are R. A. Salvatore (1959), Laura Bridgman (1829), Charles Fort (1874), James Rollins (1961), John Ashbery (1927), and William Steig (1907).

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