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Joe Paterno

1926 - 2012

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Joseph Vincent Paterno (; December 21, 1926 – January 22, 2012), sometimes referred to as JoePa, was an American college football player, athletic director, and coach. He was the head coach of the Penn State Nittany Lions from 1966 to 2011. With 409 wins, Paterno is the most victorious coach in NCAA FBS history. He recorded his 409th victory on October 29, 2011; his career ended with his dismissal from the team on November 9 (a week and a half after said victory), as a result of the Penn State child sex abuse scandal. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2024). Joe Paterno is the 6,539th most popular writer (down from 6,397th in 2024), the 12,777th most popular biography from United States (down from 11,797th in 2019) and the 913th most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Joe Paterno ranks 6,538 out of 7,302. Before him are Mary Augusta Ward, Zona Gale, Maylis de Kerangal, Paweł Huelle, and Somaly Mam. After him are Henry Green, Studs Terkel, Éric Vuillard, Muhsin al-Ramli, Gertrude Atherton, Jodi Picoult, and John P. Marquand.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Joe Paterno ranks 531. Before him are Paul Lynde, Mona Freeman, Ruth Asawa, Ernest Chapman, Cathy Downs, and Bucky Pizzarelli. After him are Rusty Wailes, Jane Withers, Torfi Bryngeirsson, Joe Kubert, Ann B. Davis, and Lorenzo Wright. Among people deceased in 2012, Joe Paterno ranks 466. Before him are Alan Cottrell, Fontella Bass, Andrew Sarris, Elena Donaldson-Akhmilovskaya, Mehdi Hassan, and Jules Bocandé. After him are Kenny Rollins, Joe Kubert, Sylvia Fedoruk, Bill Hinzman, Milt Campbell, and Jose Tomas Sanchez.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joe Paterno ranks 12,781 out of 20,380. Before him are Albert Hammond Jr. (1980), Jake Lloyd (1989), Jake Thomas (1990), Oscar Levant (1906), Sydney McLaughlin (1999), and Henry Schoolcraft (1793). After him are Nan Martin (1927), Charles L. Veach (1944), Tim Commerford (1968), Jeremy Zucker (1996), James H. Billington (1929), and Malcolm-Jamal Warner (1970).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Joe Paterno ranks 913. Before him are Alyson Noël (1965), Anna Todd (1989), Emanuel Pastreich (1964), Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872), Amy Sherman-Palladino (1966), and Zona Gale (1874). After him are Studs Terkel (1912), Gertrude Atherton (1857), Jodi Picoult (1966), John P. Marquand (1893), Norman Podhoretz (1930), and William Kennedy (1928).

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