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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 8,708,219 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Ann Dunham is the 31st most popular anthropologist (up from 35th in 2019), the 2,760th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,283rd in 2019) and the 10th most popular American Anthropologist.

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Ann Dunham ranks 31 out of 69. Before her are Wilhelm Schmidt, Cheikh Anta Diop, Raymond Dart, Marc Augé, Marshall Sahlins, and Jacques de Morgan. After her are Pierre Clastres, Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov, Franco Basaglia, Birutė Galdikas, Henry Fairfield Osborn, and Bill Mollison.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Ann Dunham ranks 194. Before her are Marta Kubišová, Pascal Couchepin, Douglas Trumbull, Neilia Hunter Biden, Jozef Adamec, and Óscar Rodríguez Maradiaga. After her are Péter Medgyessy, Daliah Lavi, Sandra Dee, Dan Graham, Takao Nishiyama, and Pierre Clémenti. Among people deceased in 1995, Ann Dunham ranks 91. Before her are Abdul Ali Mazari, Annie Fischer, Kingsley Amis, Arturo Frondizi, J. Presper Eckert, and Ida Lupino. After her are Leila Mourad, Clair Cameron Patterson, Alexander Godunov, Gabriel Urgebadze, Viveca Lindfors, and Annie M. G. Schmidt.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ann Dunham ranks 2,760 out of 18,182. Before her are George W. De Long (1844), Mike Pompeo (1963), William Labov (1927), Henry Wilson (1812), Billy Milligan (1955), and Charles Tilly (1929). After her are Clancy Brown (1959), Anne Meara (1929), Archibald Gracie IV (1858), Wendy Carlos (1939), Andrew Taylor Still (1828), and Sally Kellerman (1937).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In United States

Among anthropologists born in United States, Ann Dunham ranks 10. Before her are Clifford Geertz (1926), A. L. Kroeber (1876), Edward T. Hall (1914), Marvin Harris (1927), Leslie White (1900), and Marshall Sahlins (1930). After her are Henry Fairfield Osborn (1857), John Lloyd Stephens (1805), Ralph Linton (1893), David Graeber (1961), Michael Harner (1929), and Melville J. Herskovits (1895).

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