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Dorothy Thompson

1893 - 1961

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Dorothy Celene Thompson (July 9, 1893 – January 30, 1961) was an American journalist and radio broadcaster. She was the first American journalist to be expelled from Nazi Germany, in 1934, and was one of the few women news commentators broadcasting on radio during the 1930s. Thompson is regarded by some as the "First Lady of American Journalism" and was recognized by Time magazine in 1939 as equal in influence to Eleanor Roosevelt. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Dorothy Thompson is the 127th most popular journalist (down from 115th in 2019), the 11,560th most popular biography from United States (down from 10,495th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular American Journalist.

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Among JOURNALISTS

Among journalists, Dorothy Thompson ranks 127 out of 196Before her are Sara Carbonero, Margarita Simonyan, Bogna Koreng, Peter Travers, Sydney Schanberg, and Muntadhar al-Zaidi. After her are Louis Fischer, Megyn Kelly, Greg Burke, Vicky Ntetema, Sofía Ímber, and Amy Goodman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Dorothy Thompson ranks 264Before her are Marie Pujmanová, Patricio Arabolaza, Giovanni Scatturin, Leatrice Joy, Alfred Engelsen, and Bert McCaffrey. After her are Elizabeth Holloway Marston, Grace Cunard, Theresa Weld, Tom Forman, Saunders Lewis, and Dorothy Dalton. Among people deceased in 1961, Dorothy Thompson ranks 197Before her are Eddie Polo, Adela Pankhurst, Gustaf Rosenquist, Uberto De Morpurgo, Susanna M. Salter, and Sumner Welles. After her are Johan Sigfrid Sirén, Arnstein Arneberg, George S. Kaufman, Alfred Carlton Gilbert, George Irving, and Maribel Vinson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Dorothy Thompson ranks 11,562 out of 20,380Before her are Adolphus Greely (1844), Shawn Johnson East (1992), Stephen Dunham (1964), Ryan Eggold (1984), Gangrel (1969), and Joan Copeland (1922). After her are Hasim Rahman (1972), Michaela Jaé Rodriguez (1991), John Russell Pope (1874), Patricia Barber (1955), Mark Sandrich (1900), and Virginia Gregg (1916).

Among JOURNALISTS In United States

Among journalists born in United States, Dorothy Thompson ranks 33Before her are Diane Sawyer (1945), Frances Bean Cobain (1992), Geraldo Rivera (1943), Steven Sotloff (1983), Peter Travers (2000), and Sydney Schanberg (1934). After her are Louis Fischer (1896), Megyn Kelly (1970), Greg Burke (1959), Amy Goodman (1957), Lesley Stahl (1941), and Marjory Stoneman Douglas (1890).