ANTHROPOLOGIST

Ann Dunham

1942 - 1995

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Stanley Ann Dunham (November 29, 1942 – November 7, 1995) was an American anthropologist who specialized in the economic anthropology and rural development of Indonesia. She was the mother of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States. Born in Wichita, Kansas, Dunham studied at the East–West Center and at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in Honolulu, where she attained a Bachelor of Arts degree in anthropology (1967), and later received Master of Arts (1974) and PhD (1992) degrees, also in anthropology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ann Dunham has received more than 9,258,601 page views. Her biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Ann Dunham is the 25th most popular anthropologist (up from 30th in 2019), the 2,514th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,753rd in 2019) and the 8th most popular American Anthropologist.

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  • 56.23

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.17

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.51

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Ann Dunham ranks 25 out of 93. Before her are Mary Leakey, Marc Augé, Victor Turner, Cheikh Anta Diop, Marshall Sahlins, and A. L. Kroeber. After her are Jacques de Morgan, Fredrik Barth, Marvin Harris, Raymond Dart, Pierre Clastres, and Wilhelm Schmidt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Ann Dunham ranks 182. Before her are Mario Terán, Tony Sirico, Billy Connolly, Jusuf Kalla, Vladimir Dzhanibekov, and Milton Nascimento. After her are Richard Roundtree, Fraser Stoddart, Mike Markkula, Susan Sullivan, Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez, and Edward Luttwak. Among people deceased in 1995, Ann Dunham ranks 89. Before her are Annie Fischer, Nathan Rosen, Mia Martini, Sylvester Stadler, Peter van de Kamp, and Václav Neumann. After her are Leila Mourad, Arturo Frondizi, Rudolf Peierls, Ida Lupino, Juan Carlos Onganía, and Pancho Gonzales.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ann Dunham ranks 2,514 out of 20,380. Before her are Julie Newmar (1933), Raymond Leo Burke (1948), Edward Witten (1951), Matt Cameron (1962), John McTiernan (1951), and Lady Randolph Churchill (1854). After her are Gene Deitch (1924), Cornell Woolrich (1903), Bill Viola (1951), Heather Locklear (1961), Lynda Carter (1951), and David Julius (1955).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In United States

Among anthropologists born in United States, Ann Dunham ranks 8. Before her are Margaret Mead (1901), Ruth Benedict (1887), Clifford Geertz (1926), Edward T. Hall (1914), Marshall Sahlins (1930), and A. L. Kroeber (1876). After her are Marvin Harris (1927), Henry Fairfield Osborn (1857), David Graeber (1961), John Lloyd Stephens (1805), Helen Fisher (1945), and Ralph Linton (1893).

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