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Ron Kovic

1946 - Today

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Ronald Lawrence Kovic (born July 4, 1946) is an American anti-war activist, author, and United States Marine Corps sergeant who was wounded and paralyzed in the Vietnam War. His best selling 1976 memoir Born on the Fourth of July was made into the film of the same name which starred actor Tom Cruise as Kovic, and was co-written by Kovic and directed by Oliver Stone. Kovic received the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay on January 20, 1990, 22 years to the day that he was wounded in Vietnam, and was nominated for an Academy Award in the same category. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ron Kovic is the 2,464th most popular writer (up from 2,510th in 2019), the 3,534th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,177th in 2019) and the 282nd most popular American Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ron Kovic ranks 2,464 out of 7,302. Before him are Alex Haley, Caesarius of Heisterbach, Apollonius Dyscolus, Dares Phrygius, Jules Supervielle, and Juan de Valdés. After him are Umberto Saba, Tanya Savicheva, Michele Ruggieri, Alfréd Wetzler, Forrest J Ackerman, and Karel Hynek Mácha.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Ron Kovic ranks 253. Before him are Ismail Khan, Peggy Lipton, Renaud Camus, Joanna Lumley, Jean-Luc Marion, and Cheech Marin. After him are Christophe Pierre, René Jacobs, Duane Allman, Piet Schrijvers, Henrique Rosa, and John Watson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ron Kovic ranks 3,534 out of 20,380. Before him are Lisa Edelstein (1966), Joe Rosenthal (1911), Stephen Paddock (1953), Alex Haley (1921), Carl W. Stalling (1891), and Basil Poledouris (1945). After him are William Hoyt (1875), Richard Kuklinski (1935), Kelly Bishop (1944), Cynthia Nixon (1966), Forrest J Ackerman (1916), and Waylon Jennings (1937).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Ron Kovic ranks 282. Before him are Dorothy Parker (1893), Henry Louis Gates Jr. (1950), Theodore Sturgeon (1918), Fritz Leiber (1910), James M. Cain (1892), and Alex Haley (1921). After him are Forrest J Ackerman (1916), Vonda N. McIntyre (1948), Eben Alexander (1953), Kate Chopin (1850), Gardner Fox (1911), and John Grinder (1940).

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