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Brené Brown

1965 - Today

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Casandra Brené Brown is an American academic and podcaster who is the Huffington Foundation's Brené Brown Endowed Chair at the University of Houston's Graduate College of Social Work and a visiting professor in management at the McCombs School of Business in the University of Texas at Austin. Brown is known for her work on shame, vulnerability, and leadership, and for her widely viewed 2010 TEDx talk. She has written six number-one New York Times bestselling books and hosted two podcasts on Spotify. She appears in the 2019 documentary Brené Brown: The Call to Courage on Netflix. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2024). Brené Brown is the 6,281st most popular writer (up from 6,461st in 2024), the 11,325th most popular biography from United States (up from 12,083rd in 2019) and the 828th most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Brené Brown ranks 6,281 out of 7,302. Before her are Margaret Drabble, John Seigenthaler, Sarah Winnemucca, Stephen Glass, Ágnes Nemes Nagy, and Matti Yrjänä Joensuu. After her are Ahmed Zaki Abu Shadi, Henry Vaughan, Margaret Oliphant, Charlotte Link, Ruskin Bond, and Ian McDonald.

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Among people born in 1965, Brené Brown ranks 455. Before her are Steve Yzerman, Stanislas Dehaene, François Baroin, Ted King, Samvel Babayan, and Black Francis. After her are Kevin Williamson, Juliet Landau, Sabine Braun, Michal Šanda, Gerhard Rodax, and Bogna Koreng.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Brené Brown ranks 11,327 out of 20,380. Before her are Adrienne King (1960), George R. Price (1922), Jack Antonoff (1984), Steve Cochran (1917), Curtis Yarvin (1973), and Lucy Hale (1989). After her are Francis Parkman (1823), Helen Gahagan Douglas (1900), Terrence Mann (1951), Patti Hansen (1956), Tom Mankiewicz (1942), and Carl Pomerance (1944).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Brené Brown ranks 828. Before her are Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806), Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869), Robert B. Sherman (1925), John Seigenthaler (1927), Sarah Winnemucca (1844), and Stephen Glass (1972). After her are Charles Eastman (1858), Jack McDevitt (1935), Bayard Taylor (1825), John Toll (1952), William H. Gass (1924), and Gillian Flynn (1971).

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