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Spencer Johnson

1938 - 2017

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Patrick Spencer Johnson (November 24, 1938 – July 3, 2017) was an American physician and author. He was known for the ValueTales series of children's books, and for his 1998 self-help book Who Moved My Cheese?, which recurred on the New York Times Bestseller list, on the Publishers Weekly Hardcover nonfiction list. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Spencer Johnson has received more than 23,976 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Spencer Johnson is the 3,144th most popular writer (down from 2,841st in 2019), the 4,109th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,635th in 2019) and the 364th most popular American Writer.

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  • 24k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.20

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.64

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.04

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Spencer Johnson ranks 3,144 out of 5,755. Before him are Tiziano Terzani, Corippus, Hella Haasse, Jules Vallès, Oswald de Andrade, and Mário de Sá-Carneiro. After him are James Russell Lowell, Bernhard Severin Ingemann, Rose Ausländer, Abdurauf Fitrat, Martynas Mažvydas, and Jean-Sifrein Maury.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Spencer Johnson ranks 247. Before him are Choekyi Gyaltsen, 10th Panchen Lama, Freddie Hubbard, Jayant Narlikar, Enzo G. Castellari, Tiziano Terzani, and Stephen Breyer. After him are Marinella, Mort Shuman, Frederic Rzewski, Holger Czukay, Pat Buchanan, and Kurt Moll. Among people deceased in 2017, Spencer Johnson ranks 202. Before him are James Rosenquist, Robert M. Pirsig, Daphne Caruana Galizia, Henning Jensen, Max Gallo, and Clifton James. After him are Ilya Glazunov, Stanisław Skrowaczewski, Holger Czukay, Jacques Simon, David Cassidy, and Roger Pingeon.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Spencer Johnson ranks 4,109 out of 18,182. Before him are Brad Bird (1957), Eve Meyer (1928), Larry Tesler (1945), Jon Postel (1943), Alice Paul (1885), and Pharrell Williams (1973). After him are James Russell Lowell (1819), Chuck Connors (1921), James Ingram (1952), Richard C. Tolman (1881), George Segal (1924), and Wayne Rainey (1960).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Spencer Johnson ranks 364. Before him are Charles Grandison Finney (1792), Glen A. Larson (1937), Gregory Benford (1941), Jim Carroll (1949), Bill Bryson (1951), and John Perkins (1945). After him are James Russell Lowell (1819), Emma Lazarus (1849), David Foster Wallace (1962), Joss Whedon (1964), Elbert Hubbard (1856), and Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906).

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