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Lee Miller

1907 - 1977

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Elizabeth "Lee" Miller, Lady Penrose (April 23, 1907 – July 21, 1977), was an American photographer and photojournalist. Miller was a fashion model in New York City in the 1920s before going to Paris, becoming a fashion and fine-art photographer there. During World War II, she was a war correspondent for Vogue, covering events such as the London Blitz, the liberation of Paris and the concentration camps at Buchenwald and Dachau. Her reputation as an artist in her own right is due mostly to her son's discovery and promotion of her work as a fashion and war photographer. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lee Miller is the 4th most popular journalist (up from 18th in 2019), the 387th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,539th in 2019) and the most popular American Journalist.

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Among JOURNALISTS

Among journalists, Lee Miller ranks 4 out of 196. Before her are Robert Capa, Sebastião Salgado, and Richard Sorge. After her are François-Noël Babeuf, Joseph Pulitzer, Gianni Rodari, Oriana Fallaci, Gerda Taro, Anna Politkovskaya, Dorothea Lange, and W. T. Stead.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Lee Miller ranks 16. Before her are W. H. Auden, Mircea Eliade, J. Hans D. Jensen, Alberto Moravia, Hergé, and Maria Branyas. After her are Baldur von Schirach, Rachel Carson, Laurence Olivier, Frank Whittle, Bhagat Singh, and Yakov Dzhugashvili. Among people deceased in 1977, Lee Miller ranks 13. Before her are Wernher von Braun, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Clementine Churchill, Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, Ludwig Erhard, and René Goscinny. After her are Anthony Eden, Roberto Rossellini, Makarios III, Jacques Prévert, Ernst Bloch, and Aleksandr Vasilevsky.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Lee Miller ranks 387 out of 20,380. Before her are Joe Pesci (1943), William Howard Taft (1857), Linda McMahon (1948), Warren G. Harding (1865), Yonatan Netanyahu (1946), and Franklin Pierce (1804). After her are Chesley Sullenberger (1951), Gloria Stuart (1910), Colonel Sanders (1890), Dianne Wiest (1946), J. D. Vance (1984), and Robert Wadlow (1918).

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Among JOURNALISTS In United States

Among journalists born in United States, Lee Miller ranks 1. After her are Anna Politkovskaya (1958), Dorothea Lange (1895), John Reed (1887), W. Eugene Smith (1918), Steve McCurry (1950), Charles Dow (1851), Margaret Bourke-White (1904), Edgar Snow (1905), Harriet Quimby (1875), Walker Evans (1903), and Diana Nyad (1949).

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