1918 - 1978
William Eugene Smith (December 30, 1918 – October 15, 1978) was an American photojournalist. He has been described as "perhaps the single most important American photographer in the development of the editorial photo essay." His major photo essays include World War II photographs, the visual stories of an American country doctor and a nurse midwife, the clinic of Albert Schweitzer in French Equatorial Africa, the city of Pittsburgh, and the pollution which damaged the health of the residents of Minamata in Japan. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of W. Eugene Smith has received more than 852,970 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). W. Eugene Smith is the 13th most popular journalist (up from 23rd in 2019), the 893rd most popular biography from United States (up from 1,998th in 2019) and the 4th most popular American Journalist.
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Among journalists, W. Eugene Smith ranks 13 out of 127. Before him are Gerda Taro, Anna Politkovskaya, Sebastião Salgado, Julian Assange, John Reed, and Dorothea Lange. After him are Robert Guérin, Lee Miller, Beate Klarsfeld, Steve McCurry, W. T. Stead, and Walker Evans.
1910 - 1937
HPI: 67.11
Rank: 7
1958 - 2006
HPI: 65.52
Rank: 8
1944 - Present
HPI: 65.28
Rank: 9
1971 - Present
HPI: 63.95
Rank: 10
1887 - 1920
HPI: 63.70
Rank: 11
1895 - 1965
HPI: 63.53
Rank: 12
1918 - 1978
HPI: 62.95
Rank: 13
1876 - 1952
HPI: 62.35
Rank: 14
1907 - 1977
HPI: 62.01
Rank: 15
1939 - Present
HPI: 60.07
Rank: 16
1950 - Present
HPI: 58.98
Rank: 17
1849 - 1912
HPI: 58.37
Rank: 18
1903 - 1975
HPI: 57.74
Rank: 19
Among people born in 1918, W. Eugene Smith ranks 26. Before him are Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, William Holden, Billy Graham, Chaim Herzog, Rosalia Lombardo, and Franco Modigliani. After him are Frederick Reines, Maurice Druon, James Tobin, Ernst Otto Fischer, Muriel Spark, and Kai Siegbahn. Among people deceased in 1978, W. Eugene Smith ranks 29. Before him are Harold Lasswell, John Cazale, Harry Martinson, Houari Boumédiène, Claude François, and Norman Rockwell. After him are Herta Oberheuser, Jomo Kenyatta, Nazli Sabri, Ed Wood, Harvey Milk, and József Bozsik.
1918 - 2004
HPI: 66.63
Rank: 20
1918 - 1981
HPI: 65.64
Rank: 21
1918 - 2018
HPI: 64.27
Rank: 22
1918 - 1997
HPI: 64.05
Rank: 23
1918 - 1920
HPI: 63.94
Rank: 24
1918 - 2003
HPI: 63.76
Rank: 25
1918 - 1978
HPI: 62.95
Rank: 26
1918 - 1998
HPI: 62.89
Rank: 27
1918 - 2009
HPI: 62.88
Rank: 28
1918 - 2002
HPI: 62.79
Rank: 29
1918 - 2007
HPI: 62.73
Rank: 30
1918 - 2006
HPI: 62.57
Rank: 31
1918 - 2007
HPI: 62.53
Rank: 32
1902 - 1978
HPI: 65.19
Rank: 23
1935 - 1978
HPI: 64.90
Rank: 24
1904 - 1978
HPI: 64.80
Rank: 25
1932 - 1978
HPI: 64.31
Rank: 26
1939 - 1978
HPI: 63.34
Rank: 27
1894 - 1978
HPI: 63.17
Rank: 28
1918 - 1978
HPI: 62.95
Rank: 29
1911 - 1978
HPI: 62.69
Rank: 30
1893 - 1978
HPI: 62.68
Rank: 31
1894 - 1978
HPI: 62.07
Rank: 32
1924 - 1978
HPI: 62.05
Rank: 33
1930 - 1978
HPI: 61.81
Rank: 34
1925 - 1978
HPI: 60.87
Rank: 35
Among people born in United States, W. Eugene Smith ranks 893 out of 18,182. Before him are Al Jarreau (1940), Meg Ryan (1961), Dalton Trumbo (1905), Leon Festinger (1919), Stephen Covey (1932), and Steve Martin (1945). After him are Suzi Quatro (1950), Francis Peyton Rous (1879), Frederick Reines (1918), Steve Carell (1962), Anne Bancroft (1931), and Kevin Bacon (1958).
1940 - 2017
HPI: 63.04
Rank: 887
1961 - Present
HPI: 63.02
Rank: 888
1905 - 1976
HPI: 63.01
Rank: 889
1919 - 1989
HPI: 63.00
Rank: 890
1932 - 2012
HPI: 62.97
Rank: 891
1945 - Present
HPI: 62.95
Rank: 892
1918 - 1978
HPI: 62.95
Rank: 893
1950 - Present
HPI: 62.91
Rank: 894
1879 - 1970
HPI: 62.91
Rank: 895
1918 - 1998
HPI: 62.89
Rank: 896
1962 - Present
HPI: 62.89
Rank: 897
1931 - 2005
HPI: 62.88
Rank: 898
1958 - Present
HPI: 62.85
Rank: 899
Among journalists born in United States, W. Eugene Smith ranks 4. Before him are Anna Politkovskaya (1958), John Reed (1887), and Dorothea Lange (1895). After him are Lee Miller (1907), Steve McCurry (1950), Walker Evans (1903), Margaret Bourke-White (1904), Charles Dow (1851), Eddie Adams (1933), Edgar Snow (1905), and Joe Rosenthal (1911).
1958 - 2006
HPI: 65.52
Rank: 1
1887 - 1920
HPI: 63.70
Rank: 2
1895 - 1965
HPI: 63.53
Rank: 3
1918 - 1978
HPI: 62.95
Rank: 4
1907 - 1977
HPI: 62.01
Rank: 5
1950 - Present
HPI: 58.98
Rank: 6
1903 - 1975
HPI: 57.74
Rank: 7
1904 - 1971
HPI: 57.29
Rank: 8
1851 - 1902
HPI: 56.47
Rank: 9
1933 - 2004
HPI: 55.56
Rank: 10
1905 - 1972
HPI: 54.74
Rank: 11
1911 - 2006
HPI: 54.01
Rank: 12