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Sylvia Browne

1936 - 2013

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Sylvia Celeste Browne (née Shoemaker; October 19, 1936 – November 20, 2013) was an American writer and self-proclaimed medium and psychic. She appeared regularly on television and radio, including on The Montel Williams Show and Larry King Live, and hosted an hour-long online radio show on Hay House Radio. Browne frequently made pronouncements that were later found to be false, including those related to missing persons. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sylvia Browne has received more than 3,551,923 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Sylvia Browne is the 6,379th most popular writer (down from 4,518th in 2019), the 11,695th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,361st in 2019) and the 858th most popular American Writer.

Sylvia Browne was a psychic who was most famous for her appearances on the Montel Williams show.

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  • 3.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.28

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.68

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.49

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Sylvia Browne ranks 6,379 out of 7,302. Before her are Richard Price, Jodi Picoult, Ludwig Bemelmans, Christopher Fry, Thomas Lodge, and Terence MacSwiney. After her are H. R. F. Keating, Anderson Cooper, George S. Kaufman, Waleed Al-Husseini, Raúl Rivero, and Richard Henry Dana Jr..

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Sylvia Browne ranks 551. Before her are Andrew Davies, George Eastham, Adán Godoy, Peter Hill-Wood, Kalevi Oikarainen, and Leamon King. After her are Rosemary Radford Ruether, Jamuna, Rosa María Britton, Jackie Lewis, Fred Neil, and George Voinovich. Among people deceased in 2013, Sylvia Browne ranks 471. Before her are McDonald Bailey, Oscar Hijuelos, Noel Harrison, Louis-Paul M'Fédé, Ilya Segalovich, and Reg Presley. After her are Vladimir Vikulov, Peter Broadbent, Marian McPartland, Shamshad Begum, Fred Martin, and Eeva Ruoppa.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Sylvia Browne ranks 11,695 out of 20,380. Before her are Meredith Monroe (1969), David Alan Grier (1956), Viscera (1971), Andrew M. Allen (1955), Steve Albini (1962), and Mireille Enos (1975). After her are Gina Philips (1970), Laura Kelly (1950), Mary Watson Whitney (1847), Reverend Gary Davis (1896), Ann Gillis (1927), and Matt McCoy (1958).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Sylvia Browne ranks 858. Before her are Edward Everett Hale (1822), John P. Marquand (1893), S. E. Hinton (1948), Joel Osteen (1963), Richard Price (1949), and Jodi Picoult (1966). After her are Anderson Cooper (1967), George S. Kaufman (1889), Richard Henry Dana Jr. (1815), Linda Woolverton (1952), Joe Paterno (1926), and Leslie Feinberg (1949).

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