1928 - Today
Karola Ruth Westheimer (née Siegel; born June 4, 1928), better known as Dr. Ruth, is a German-American sex therapist, talk show host, author, professor, and Holocaust survivor. 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 3,010,698 page views. Her biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia. Ruth Westheimer is the 3,609th most popular writer (down from 2,585th in 2019), the 3,496th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,568th in 2019) and the 213th most popular German Writer.
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Among writers, Ruth Westheimer ranks 3,609 out of 5,755. Before her are Otfrid of Weissenburg, Lola Anglada, John Henry Mackay, Þorbjörn Hornklofi, Driss Chraïbi, and I. A. Richards. After her are Claude Favre de Vaugelas, Eiko Kadono, Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo, Jan Wolkers, Yuri Rytkheu, and Aleksey Pisemsky.
790 - 875
HPI: 49.80
Rank: 3,603
1892 - 1984
HPI: 49.80
Rank: 3,604
1864 - 1933
HPI: 49.80
Rank: 3,605
900 - 1000
HPI: 49.80
Rank: 3,606
1926 - 2007
HPI: 49.79
Rank: 3,607
1893 - 1979
HPI: 49.79
Rank: 3,608
1928 - Present
HPI: 49.79
Rank: 3,609
1585 - 1650
HPI: 49.79
Rank: 3,610
1935 - Present
HPI: 49.78
Rank: 3,611
1856 - 1912
HPI: 49.78
Rank: 3,612
1925 - 2007
HPI: 49.78
Rank: 3,613
1930 - 2008
HPI: 49.78
Rank: 3,614
1821 - 1881
HPI: 49.78
Rank: 3,615
Among people born in 1928, Ruth Westheimer ranks 289. Before her are Art Farmer, Emilio Pericoli, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Arnfinn Bergmann, Hidetaka Nishiyama, and Qian Qichen. After her are Elio Sgreccia, Mary Daly, Bob Crane, Vincent Gigante, Steingrímur Hermannsson, and Minas Avetisyan.
1928 - 1999
HPI: 49.86
Rank: 283
1928 - 2013
HPI: 49.84
Rank: 284
1928 - 1996
HPI: 49.84
Rank: 285
1928 - 2011
HPI: 49.83
Rank: 286
1928 - 2008
HPI: 49.82
Rank: 287
1928 - 2017
HPI: 49.81
Rank: 288
1928 - Present
HPI: 49.79
Rank: 289
1928 - 2019
HPI: 49.78
Rank: 290
1928 - 2010
HPI: 49.72
Rank: 291
1928 - 1978
HPI: 49.69
Rank: 292
1928 - 2005
HPI: 49.69
Rank: 293
1928 - 2010
HPI: 49.67
Rank: 294
1928 - 1975
HPI: 49.65
Rank: 295
Among people born in Germany, Ruth Westheimer ranks 3,496 out of 6,142. Before her are Josef Pieper (1904), Friedrich Theodor Vischer (1807), Karl Friedrich von Gaertner (1772), Johann Friedrich Meckel (1781), Konrad Wolf (1925), and Ingo Schwichtenberg (1965). After her are Princess Marie Alexandrine of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1849), Klaus Doldinger (1936), Timo Boll (1981), Princess Agnes of Anhalt-Dessau (1824), Karl Ludwig Sand (1795), and Michael Weikath (1962).
1904 - 1997
HPI: 49.81
Rank: 3,490
1807 - 1887
HPI: 49.81
Rank: 3,491
1772 - 1850
HPI: 49.81
Rank: 3,492
1781 - 1833
HPI: 49.80
Rank: 3,493
1925 - 1982
HPI: 49.79
Rank: 3,494
1965 - 1995
HPI: 49.79
Rank: 3,495
1928 - Present
HPI: 49.79
Rank: 3,496
1849 - 1922
HPI: 49.78
Rank: 3,497
1936 - Present
HPI: 49.78
Rank: 3,498
1981 - Present
HPI: 49.77
Rank: 3,499
1824 - 1897
HPI: 49.76
Rank: 3,500
1795 - 1820
HPI: 49.76
Rank: 3,501
1962 - Present
HPI: 49.76
Rank: 3,502
Among writers born in Germany, Ruth Westheimer ranks 213. Before her are Theodor Plievier (1892), Leopold Zunz (1794), Gunter d'Alquen (1910), Sarah Kirsch (1935), Johann Heinrich Voss (1751), and Friedrich Theodor Vischer (1807). After her are Justus Jonas (1493), Otto Ludwig (1813), Günter Eich (1907), Picander (1700), Ken Adam (1921), and Botho Strauß (1944).
1892 - 1955
HPI: 50.13
Rank: 207
1794 - 1886
HPI: 50.03
Rank: 208
1910 - 1998
HPI: 50.01
Rank: 209
1935 - 2013
HPI: 49.98
Rank: 210
1751 - 1826
HPI: 49.87
Rank: 211
1807 - 1887
HPI: 49.81
Rank: 212
1928 - Present
HPI: 49.79
Rank: 213
1493 - 1555
HPI: 49.73
Rank: 214
1813 - 1865
HPI: 49.54
Rank: 215
1907 - 1972
HPI: 49.54
Rank: 216
1700 - 1764
HPI: 49.52
Rank: 217
1921 - 2016
HPI: 49.48
Rank: 218
1944 - Present
HPI: 49.47
Rank: 219