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Ruth Westheimer

1928 - Today

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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 2,984,503 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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  • 49.79

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  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.14

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.79

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ruth Westheimer ranks 3,609 out of 5,755Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Ruth Westheimer ranks 289Before 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.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ruth Westheimer ranks 3,496 out of 6,142Before 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).

Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Ruth Westheimer ranks 213Before 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).

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