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Oriana Fallaci

1929 - 2006

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Oriana Fallaci (Italian: [oˈrjaːna falˈlaːtʃi]; 29 June 1929 – 15 September 2006) was an Italian journalist and author. A member of the Italian resistance movement during World War II, she had a long and successful journalistic career. Fallaci became famous worldwide for her coverage of war and revolution, and her "long, aggressive and revealing interviews" with many world leaders during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Fallaci's book Interview with History contains interviews with Indira Gandhi, Golda Meir, Yasser Arafat, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Willy Brandt, Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Ruhollah Khomeini, Henry Kissinger, South Vietnamese president Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, and North Vietnamese general Võ Nguyên Giáp during the Vietnam War. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Oriana Fallaci is the 8th most popular journalist (down from 3rd in 2019), the 728th most popular biography from Italy (down from 469th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Italian Journalist.

Oriana Fallaci was a journalist who wrote about the Vietnam War and the Six-Day War. She is most famous for her book "The Rage and the Pride," which was about the September 11th terrorist attacks.

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Among JOURNALISTS

Among journalists, Oriana Fallaci ranks 8 out of 196Before her are Sebastião Salgado, Richard Sorge, Lee Miller, François-Noël Babeuf, Joseph Pulitzer, and Gianni Rodari. After her are Gerda Taro, Anna Politkovskaya, Dorothea Lange, W. T. Stead, Jean-Marie Balestre, and John Reed.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Oriana Fallaci ranks 36Before her are Babrak Karmal, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Djalma Santos, Richard E. Taylor, Isamu Akasaki, and Hafizullah Amin. After her are Werner Arber, Fernanda Montenegro, Murray Gell-Mann, John Turner, Zdzisław Beksiński, and Hebe Camargo. Among people deceased in 2006, Oriana Fallaci ranks 22Before her are Philippe Noiret, Choi Kyu-hah, Mako, Desmond Doss, Johannes Rau, and Heinrich Harrer. After her are Ibrahim Rugova, Giacinto Facchetti, Anna Politkovskaya, Melvin Schwartz, Lennart Meri, and Robert Bruce Merrifield.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Oriana Fallaci ranks 728 out of 5,161Before her are Gregorio Allegri (1582), Pietro da Cortona (1596), Conrad of Montferrat (1146), Scipio Aemilianus (-185), Gianni Rivera (1943), and Domenico Modugno (1928). After her are Agostino Carracci (1557), Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara (1476), Giovanni Agnelli (1866), Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola (1507), Franco Zeffirelli (1923), and Lucullus (-118).

Among JOURNALISTS In Italy

Among journalists born in Italy, Oriana Fallaci ranks 2Before her are Gianni Rodari (1920). After her are Letizia Battaglia (1935), Maurizio Costanzo (1938), Fabrizio Romano (1993), Bianca Maria Piccinino (1924), and Rosanna Marani (1946).