BIOLOGIST

Sam Harris

1967 - Today

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Samuel Benjamin Harris (born April 9, 1967) is an American philosopher, neuroscientist, author, and podcast host. His work touches on a range of topics, including rationality, religion, ethics, free will, neuroscience, meditation, psychedelics, philosophy of mind, politics, terrorism, and artificial intelligence. Harris came to prominence for his criticism of religion, and is known as one of the "Four Horsemen" of New Atheism, along with Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Daniel Dennett.Harris's first book, The End of Faith (2004), won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction and remained on The New York Times Best Seller list for 33 weeks. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sam Harris has received more than 8,135,880 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Sam Harris is the 881st most popular biologist (down from 768th in 2019), the 8,398th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,360th in 2019) and the 122nd most popular American Biologist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 8.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.69

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 52

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.07

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.18

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Sam Harrises by language

Over the past year Sam Harris has had the most page views in the with 959,682 views, followed by German (30,152), and Spanish (22,591). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Bengali (820.24%), Indonesian (265.34%), and Bosnian (264.80%)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Sam Harris ranks 881 out of 1,097. Before him are Carl Eduard Hellmayr, Reginald Innes Pocock, Charles Tate Regan, Charles Conrad Abbott, Johann August Ephraim Goeze, and Gilbert Thomas Burnett. After him are Benjamin Smith Barton, Gaetano Savi, Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw, Theobald Smith, Robert Weinberg, and Dukinfield Henry Scott.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1967, Sam Harris ranks 249. Before him are Ted Chiang, Masami Ihara, Riddick Bowe, Richey Edwards, Frances O'Connor, and Ekin Cheng. After him are José Luis Caminero, Edu Manga, Inha Babakova, Yukiko Okada, Manuela Maleeva, and Criss Angel.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Sam Harris ranks 8,398 out of 20,380. Before him are Johnny Rivers (1942), Fred Hansen (1940), Belladonna (1981), Method Man (1971), Diane Sawyer (1945), and Gail Goodrich (1943). After him are Frankie Manning (1914), John Michael Talbot (1954), Virgil Thomson (1896), Della Reese (1931), Marilyn Ferguson (1938), and Phil Harris (1904).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Sam Harris ranks 122. Before him are Robert Ridgway (1850), John Torrey (1796), Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858), Stanley Norman Cohen (1935), Charles Horton Peck (1833), and Charles Conrad Abbott (1843). After him are Benjamin Smith Barton (1766), Theobald Smith (1859), Robert Weinberg (1942), Richard Evans Schultes (1915), Clinton Hart Merriam (1855), and Thomas Say (1787).

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