WRITER

Ruth Westheimer

1928 - 2024

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Karola Ruth Westheimer (née Siegel; June 4, 1928 – July 12, 2024), better known as Dr. Ruth, was a German and American sex therapist and talk show host. Westheimer was born in Germany to a Jewish family. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ruth Westheimer has received more than 3,799,912 page views. Her biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia. Ruth Westheimer is the 4,335th most popular writer (down from 3,596th in 2019), the 4,244th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,492nd in 2019) and the 265th most popular German Writer.

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ruth Westheimer ranks 4,335 out of 7,302Before her are Dorothee Sölle, Franciszek Karpiński, Orhan Kemal, Winston Graham, Helen Prejean, and Breyten Breytenbach. After her are Maksim Tank, Connie Willis, Yurii Andrukhovych, Moacyr Scliar, Andrew Marvell, and Larry Collins.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Ruth Westheimer ranks 356Before her are Minas Avetisyan, Károly Sándor, Veijo Meri, William Trevor, Dezső Bundzsák, and Miguel Poblet. After her are François Remetter, Charles David Keeling, Michel Brault, Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Gudrun Pausewang, and Frank Rosenblatt. Among people deceased in 2024, Ruth Westheimer ranks 259Before her are Otis Davis, Léon Semmeling, Percy Adlon, Peter Sinfield, Michel Blanc, and Breyten Breytenbach. After her are Elke Erb, Joe Lieberman, Noriko Ohara, Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot, Paul Morrissey, and Bernard Pivot.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ruth Westheimer ranks 4,244 out of 7,253Before her are Franz Delitzsch (1813), Princess Marie of Nassau (1825), Dorothee Sölle (1929), Peter Gay (1923), Anton-Günther, Duke of Oldenburg (1923), and Ernst Albrecht (1907). After her are Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald (1902), Gisela Arendt (1918), Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient (1804), Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster (1869), Wolfgang Staudte (1906), and Ernst, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen (1859).

Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Ruth Westheimer ranks 265Before her are Joachim Ringelnatz (1883), Iwan Bloch (1872), Fritz Reuter (1810), Joachim Heinrich Campe (1746), Herbert Achternbusch (1938), and Dorothee Sölle (1929). After her are Elke Erb (1938), Karl Leberecht Immermann (1796), Paul Bekker (1882), Johann Beckmann (1739), Marie Luise Kaschnitz (1901), and Felix Dahn (1834).