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Tom Brokaw

1940 - Today

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Thomas John Brokaw (; born February 6, 1940) is an American retired network television journalist and author. He first served as the co-anchor of The Today Show from 1976 to 1981 with Jane Pauley, then as the anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News for 22 years (1982–2004). In the previous decade he served as a weekend anchor for the program from 1973 to 1976. He is the only person to have hosted all three major NBC News programs: The Today Show, NBC Nightly News, and, briefly, Meet the Press. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tom Brokaw has received more than 4,773,562 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Tom Brokaw is the 5,978th most popular writer (down from 5,566th in 2019), the 9,647th most popular biography from United States (down from 9,553rd in 2019) and the 729th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 4.8M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.57

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.32

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Tom Brokaw ranks 5,978 out of 7,302. Before him are Luisa Valenzuela, Kay Redfield Jamison, Simo Puupponen, Farley Mowat, Michael Parenti, and Albert Sánchez Piñol. After him are Svetlana Makarovič, Edmund Gosse, William Bell Scott, Vjenceslav Novak, George Holyoake, and Francis Chichester.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Tom Brokaw ranks 511. Before him are Bob Knight, Jutta Heine, Jeroen Brouwers, Austin Pendleton, Judy Cornwell, and Annemarie Zimmermann. After him are Marita Petersen, Manfred Manglitz, Asrani, Bruno Nicolè, Daniel J. Travanti, and Beth Fowler.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Tom Brokaw ranks 9,647 out of 20,380. Before him are Parker Stevenson (1952), John Carroll (1735), Michael Parenti (1933), Joan Leslie (1925), Ben Harper (1969), and Joseph Nicolosi (1947). After him are Willie Brown (1900), Jeff Stryker (1962), Alvin Langdon Coburn (1882), Tina Louise (1934), Joel Glazer (1970), and Alan Rudolph (1943).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Tom Brokaw ranks 729. Before him are James Dickey (1923), Damon Lindelof (1973), Daniel Quinn (1935), Winston Churchill (1871), Walter Lord (1917), and Michael Parenti (1933). After him are Richard Russo (1949), Sarah Moore Grimké (1792), Gardner Fox (1911), W. S. Merwin (1927), Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896), and Carol J. Adams (1951).

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