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Ryan White

1971 - 1990

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Ryan Wayne White (December 6, 1971 – April 8, 1990) was an American teenager from Kokomo, Indiana, who became a national poster child for HIV/AIDS in the United States after his school barred him from attending classes following a diagnosis of AIDS. As a haemophiliac, he became infected with HIV from a contaminated factor VIII blood treatment and, when diagnosed in December 1984, was given six months to live. Doctors said he posed no risk to other students, as AIDS is not an airborne disease and spreads solely through bodily fluids, but AIDS was poorly understood by the general public at the time. When White tried to return to school, many parents and teachers in Howard County rallied against his attendance due to unwarranted concerns of the disease spreading to other students and staff. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ryan White has received more than 4,527,329 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia. Ryan White is the 1,114th most popular philosopher (down from 1,027th in 2019), the 8,175th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,832nd in 2019) and the 68th most popular American Philosopher.

Memorability Metrics

  • 4.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 44.08

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.44

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.06

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Ryan White ranks 1,114 out of 1,081. Before him are Judith Jarvis Thomson, Vicente Ferreira da Silva, Edward Abramowski, Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati, Ruth Barcan Marcus, and Volker Zotz. After him are Mary Whiton Calkins, William Ames, Alexander Berzin, Nick Bostrom, Simon Blackburn, and R. C. Sproul.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1971, Ryan White ranks 221. Before him are Joel McHale, Tsutomu Nihei, Christian Camargo, Julio César Baldivieso, Thomas Helveg, and Besnik Hasi. After him are Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, Pavel Bure, Amy Poehler, Michael Burry, Julianne Nicholson, and Dipendra of Nepal. Among people deceased in 1990, Ryan White ranks 233. Before him are Ina Balin, Omero Tognon, Sadi Irmak, Dries van der Lof, Georges de Rham, and Ian Charleson. After him are Xosé María Díaz Castro, Boris Piotrovsky, Ramón Piñeiro López, Edward Binns, Arno Arthur Wachmann, and Maurice Cloche.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ryan White ranks 8,175 out of 18,182. Before him are Helen Jacobs (1908), Oscar Olson (1878), Warren Zevon (1947), Hampton Fancher (1938), Mara Corday (1930), and Hiram Johnson (1866). After him are Jimmie Vaughan (1951), Herman Glass (1880), Ralph McQuarrie (1929), Eugene Meyer (1875), Betty Gilpin (1986), and Rockwell (1964).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In United States

Among philosophers born in United States, Ryan White ranks 68. Before him are William Chittick (1943), James Burnham (1905), William Alston (1921), Michael Hardt (1960), Judith Jarvis Thomson (1929), and Ruth Barcan Marcus (1921). After him are Mary Whiton Calkins (1863), Alexander Berzin (1944), R. C. Sproul (1939), Charles Hartshorne (1897), Patricia Hill Collins (1948), and Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825).

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