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Anthony Fauci

1940 - Today

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Anthony Stephen Fauci ( FOW-chee; born December 24, 1940) is an American physician-scientist and immunologist who served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) from 1984 to 2022, and the chief medical advisor to the president from 2021 to 2022. Fauci was one of the world's most frequently cited scientists across all scientific journals from 1983 to 2002. In 2008, President George W. Bush awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States, for his work on the AIDS relief program PEPFAR. Fauci received his undergraduate education at the College of the Holy Cross and his Doctor of Medicine from Cornell University. As a physician with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Fauci served the American public health sector for more than fifty years and has acted as an advisor to every U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anthony Fauci has received more than 15,295,159 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Anthony Fauci is the 345th most popular physician (down from 170th in 2019), the 3,183rd most popular biography from United States (down from 1,364th in 2019) and the 38th most popular American Physician.

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  • 15M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.70

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 54

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.79

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.52

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Anthony Fauci ranks 345 out of 726. Before him are Nikolai Korotkov, Paul Janssen, Thomas Szasz, James Braid, Max Heindel, and Luke Voyno-Yasenetsky. After him are Ibn Abi Usaibia, Shinya Yamanaka, Louis de Jaucourt, Johann Peter Frank, Anders Chydenius, and Ernest Duchesne.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Anthony Fauci ranks 177. Before him are Mirko Jozić, Natalia Makarova, Stephen Kovacevich, Nicola Di Bari, Jair da Costa, and Tony Sheridan. After him are Vagif Mustafazadeh, Macha Méril, Jill St. John, Vito Acconci, Kunimitsu Takahashi, and Georgi Ivanov.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Anthony Fauci ranks 3,183 out of 20,380. Before him are Ron Kovic (1946), Tallulah Bankhead (1902), Sally Ride (1951), Tatum O'Neal (1963), Alex North (1910), and Chris Sarandon (1942). After him are Josh Duhamel (1972), Thomas Curtis (1873), Donald E. Westlake (1933), Zoe Saldana (1978), Frederick William Franz (1893), and Diane Ladd (1935).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, Anthony Fauci ranks 38. Before him are Michael DeBakey (1908), Drew Weissman (1959), Horace Wells (1815), James Curtis Hepburn (1815), Jack Kevorkian (1928), and William Bates (1860). After him are Mehmet Oz (1960), Walter Jackson Freeman II (1895), Andrew Taylor Still (1828), Warren Sturgis McCulloch (1898), Gregg L. Semenza (1956), and Philip Showalter Hench (1896).

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