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Ruth Westheimer

1928 - 2024

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Karola Ruth Westheimer (née Siegel; June 4, 1928 – July 12, 2024), better known as Dr. Ruth, was a German and American sex therapist and talk show host. Westheimer was born in Germany to a Jewish family. As the Nazis came to power, her parents sent the 10-year-old girl to a school in Switzerland for safety while they remained behind because of her elderly grandmother. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ruth Westheimer is the 4,219th most popular writer (up from 4,334th in 2019), the 4,219th most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,244th in 2019) and the 255th most popular German Writer.

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Among writers, Ruth Westheimer ranks 4,219 out of 7,302. Before her are Ludvík Vaculík, Ki no Tomonori, Sofia Yablonska, Isidore Isou, Camille Lemonnier, and Daniel Varoujan. After her are Ida B. Wells, Tobias Wolff, Florbela Espanca, Christiane Rochefort, Félicien Marceau, and Álvaro Cunqueiro.

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Among people born in 1928, Ruth Westheimer ranks 352. Before her are Dušan Džamonja, Leonid Bronevoy, Eydie Gormé, Luis Posada Carriles, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, and Nelson Pereira dos Santos. After her are Karel Mejta Sr, John Ostrom, Eno Raud, Mary Daly, Rance Howard, and Hidetaka Nishiyama. Among people deceased in 2024, Ruth Westheimer ranks 301. Before her are Alex Salmond, Pascal Lainé, Jan A. P. Kaczmarek, Christopher Priest, Levan Tediashvili, and Anita Bryant. After her are Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, Richard H. Truly, George Eastham, Richard Simmons, Francisco Rodríguez, and Charles Shyer.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ruth Westheimer ranks 4,221 out of 7,253. Before her are Albert Renger-Patzsch (1897), Paul Pietsch (1911), Hans Leonhard Schäufelein (1480), Hermann, Prince of Wied (1814), Princess Frederica of Hanover (1848), and Helmut Wick (1915). After her are Robert Spaemann (1927), Mathieu Carrière (1950), Paul Schmidt (1899), Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler (1811), Henriette Herz (1764), and Karl-Heinz Körbel (1954).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Ruth Westheimer ranks 255. Before her are Maximilian Harden (1861), Murad Wilfried Hofmann (1931), Ken Adam (1921), Irmgard Keun (1905), Cordelia Edvardson (1929), and Johann Georg von Hahn (1811). After her are Max Lange (1832), Emanuel Geibel (1815), James Krüss (1926), Joachim Ringelnatz (1883), Elisabeth Langgässer (1899), and Robert Jungk (1913).

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