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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tom Brokaw has received more than 4,376,269 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Tom Brokaw is the 5,586th most popular writer (down from 5,005th in 2019), the 9,574th most popular biography from United States (down from 8,682nd in 2019) and the 737th most popular American Writer.

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  • 4.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 41.99

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.31

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.98

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Tom Brokaw ranks 5,586 out of 5,755. Before him are Roma Ryan, Madhukar, Frank Harris, Edmund Gosse, Chaz Bono, and Lloyd C. Douglas. After him are Mikhail Gurevich, Sida Košutić, Su Tong, Gunnel Vallquist, Ernest Dowson, and John Barbour.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Tom Brokaw ranks 483. Before him are David Gates, Manfred Manglitz, Niilo Halonen, Yamini Krishnamurthy, Beth Fowler, and Larry Young. After him are Hubert Kostka, Billy Fury, Lokendra Bahadur Chand, Bruno Nicolè, Daniel Goldin, and Rinnat Safin.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Tom Brokaw ranks 9,574 out of 18,182. Before him are Larry Young (1940), Lloyd C. Douglas (1877), Jonathan Togo (1977), Robert Zubrin (1952), Evelyn Venable (1913), and Bud Luckey (1934). After him are George R. Price (1922), John Taylor (1883), Kevin Conroy (1955), RJ Mitte (1992), Robin Thicke (1977), and Mary MacLaren (1900).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Tom Brokaw ranks 737. Before him are Gillian Flynn (1971), James Dickey (1923), Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896), Jodi Picoult (1966), Chaz Bono (1969), and Lloyd C. Douglas (1877). After him are Ransom Riggs (1979), Harry Turtledove (1949), Michael Parenti (1933), John Toll (1952), Alice Sebold (1963), and Alyson Noël (1965).

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