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Ruth Handler

1916 - 2002

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Ruth Marianna Handler (née Mosko; November 4, 1916 – April 27, 2002) was an American business magnate and inventor. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ruth Handler has received more than 5,862,211 page views. Her biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Ruth Handler is the 42nd most popular inventor (up from 226th in 2019), the 387th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,384th in 2019) and the 9th most popular American Inventor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 5.9M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 68.28

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.18

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Ruth Handler ranks 42 out of 426. Before her are Robert Fulton, László Bíró, Richard Trevithick, Adolphe Sax, Frank Whittle, and John Logie Baird. After her are Jimmy Wales, Konrad Zuse, Wilhelm Maybach, John Herschel, Hans Lippershey, and Willis Carrier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Ruth Handler ranks 17. Before her are Hans-Ulrich Rudel, Gough Whitlam, Claude Shannon, João Havelange, Ahmed Ben Bella, and Olivia de Havilland. After her are Harold Wilson, Yehudi Menuhin, Herbert A. Simon, Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Hans Eysenck, and Maurice Wilkins. Among people deceased in 2002, Ruth Handler ranks 12. Before her are Hans-Georg Gadamer, Thor Heyerdahl, John Rawls, Billy Wilder, Richard Harris, and Vavá. After her are László Kubala, Valeriy Lobanovskyi, Prince Claus of the Netherlands, Traudl Junge, Chuck Jones, and James Coburn.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ruth Handler ranks 387 out of 20,380. Before her are Raymond Chandler (1888), Chester W. Nimitz (1885), Henry James (1843), Angela Davis (1944), Ryan O'Neal (1941), and Dan Brown (1964). After her are Edward Drinker Cope (1840), Sylvia Plath (1932), Kurt Cobain (1967), Brian De Palma (1940), Anthony Kiedis (1962), and Martin Sheen (1940).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Ruth Handler ranks 9. Before her are Samuel Morse (1791), Samuel Colt (1814), Steve Wozniak (1950), Eli Whitney (1765), George Westinghouse (1846), and Robert Fulton (1765). After her are Jimmy Wales (1966), Willis Carrier (1876), Herman Hollerith (1860), William G. Morgan (1870), Douglas Engelbart (1925), and Charles Goodyear (1800).

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