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Thomas Friedman

1953 - Today

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Thomas Loren Friedman ( FREED-mən; born July 20, 1953) is an American political commentator and author. He is a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner who is a weekly columnist for The New York Times. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas Friedman has received more than 2,449,720 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Thomas Friedman is the 3,691st most popular writer (up from 4,030th in 2019), the 4,718th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,474th in 2019) and the 392nd most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.77

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.12

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Thomas Friedman ranks 3,691 out of 7,302. Before him are Wang Changling, Dmitry Grigorovich, Oksana Zabuzhko, Louise Penny, Abbasgulu Bakikhanov, and Peter Rosegger. After him are Robert Leckie, Johan Turi, Albert Aurier, Yevhen Hrebinka, Coelius Sedulius, and Christiane Rochefort.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Thomas Friedman ranks 211. Before him are Jean-Louis Gasset, Barry Sonnenfeld, Yoko Shimada, Yolande Moreau, Dieter Zetsche, and Johnny Clegg. After him are Władysław Kozakiewicz, David Deutsch, Tōru Furuya, Boris Grebenshchikov, Graeme Souness, and Eric Bogosian.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Thomas Friedman ranks 4,718 out of 20,380. Before him are Matisyahu (1979), Malcom McLean (1913), Bridget Moynahan (1971), Jesse Eisenberg (1983), Gene Tunney (1897), and Theodore Lyman IV (1874). After him are Robert Leckie (1920), Stormy Daniels (1979), William Hoyt (1875), Claudette Colvin (1939), David Geffen (1943), and Bill Goldberg (1966).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Thomas Friedman ranks 392. Before him are Charles Fort (1874), Lillian Hellman (1905), John Ashbery (1927), Richard Yates (1926), Marta Kauffman (1956), and Helen Churchill Candee (1858). After him are Robert Leckie (1920), Joe Haldeman (1943), Janet Asimov (1926), James A. Michener (1907), Og Mandino (1923), and John Gray (1951).

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