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Wayne Dyer

1940 - 2015

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Wayne Walter Dyer (May 10, 1940 – August 29, 2015) was an American self-help author and a motivational speaker. Dyer earned a Bachelor’s degree in History and Philosophy, a Master’s degree in Psychology and an Ed.D. in Guidance and Counseling at Wayne State University in 1970. Early in his career, he worked as a high school guidance counselor, and went on to run a successful private therapy practice. He became a popular professor of counselor education at St. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Wayne Dyer is the 2,584th most popular writer (down from 2,220th in 2019), the 3,726th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,781st in 2019) and the 297th most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Wayne Dyer ranks 2,584 out of 7,302. Before him are Joseph Görres, Michael Madhusudan Dutt, John the Lydian, Stanisław Konarski, Heinrich von Veldeke, and Matthias Claudius. After him are Jeanne Julie Éléonore de Lespinasse, Khurshidbanu Natavan, Louis Couperus, Jean Raspail, Guan Daosheng, and Lucius Afranius.

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Among people born in 1940, Wayne Dyer ranks 191. Before him are Tony Sheridan, Dietmar Hopp, Leonard Susskind, Luis Cubilla, Kipchoge Keino, and Mirko Jozić. After him are Vito Acconci, Vagif Mustafazadeh, Craig Brown, Stephen Kovacevich, Vyacheslav Ivankov, and Franz Müntefering. Among people deceased in 2015, Wayne Dyer ranks 140. Before him are Kirk Kerkorian, Dick Nanninga, Geoffrey Lewis, Renzo Zorzi, Ignacio Zoco, and Anne Meara. After him are Vicente Aranda, Carlo Furno, Harald Nielsen, Sergio Sollima, Władysław Bartoszewski, and Klaus Roth.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Wayne Dyer ranks 3,726 out of 20,380. Before him are Tate Donovan (1963), Jim "Bad News" Barnes (1941), Ben Turpin (1869), Wendy Carlos (1939), John P. Ryan (1936), and Jennifer Love Hewitt (1979). After him are J. Walter Christie (1865), Brent Spiner (1949), Richard Tucker (1913), Harry Myers (1882), Jeanne Tripplehorn (1963), and Clarence Zener (1905).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Wayne Dyer ranks 297. Before him are Jack Williamson (1908), Terence McKenna (1946), Neil Simon (1927), Archibald Gracie IV (1858), Tom Peters (1942), and William Peter Blatty (1928). After him are Alice B. Toklas (1877), D. B. Weiss (1971), Jim Thompson (1906), Seymour Hersh (1937), Andy Weir (1972), and S. S. Van Dine (1888).

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