1940 - Today
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.As a physician with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Fauci has served the American public health sector in various capacities for more than fifty years and has acted as an advisor to every U.S. president since Ronald Reagan. He has been director of the NIAID since 1984 and has made contributions to HIV/AIDS research and other immunodeficiency diseases, both as a research scientist and as the head of the NIAID. From 1983 to 2002, Fauci was one of the world's most frequently cited scientists across all scientific journals. 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.During the COVID-19 pandemic, he served under President Donald Trump as one of the lead members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anthony Fauci has received more than 13,307,132 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Anthony Fauci is the 169th most popular physician (up from 200th in 2019), the 1,364th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,655th in 2019) and the 21st most popular American Physician.
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Among physicians, Anthony Fauci ranks 169 out of 502. Before him are Merit-Ptah, Albert Calmette, Engelbert Kaempfer, Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Leonid Rogozov, and Dominique Jean Larrey. After him are Alexander Bogdanov, Kitasato Shibasaburō, Erasistratus, Hans Rosling, Andrew Schally, and Thomas Willis.
2700 BC - 2659 BC
HPI: 60.37
Rank: 163
1863 - 1933
HPI: 60.32
Rank: 164
1651 - 1716
HPI: 60.29
Rank: 165
1682 - 1771
HPI: 60.19
Rank: 166
1934 - 2000
HPI: 60.13
Rank: 167
1766 - 1842
HPI: 60.10
Rank: 168
1940 - Present
HPI: 60.08
Rank: 169
1873 - 1928
HPI: 60.08
Rank: 170
1853 - 1931
HPI: 59.98
Rank: 171
303 BC - 249 BC
HPI: 59.93
Rank: 172
1948 - 2017
HPI: 59.93
Rank: 173
1926 - Present
HPI: 59.89
Rank: 174
1621 - 1675
HPI: 59.88
Rank: 175
Among people born in 1940, Anthony Fauci ranks 86. Before him are John Gotti, Joachim Frank, Astrud Gilberto, George Akerlof, Dionne Warwick, and Lothar de Maizière. After him are Brian Josephson, Mamnoon Hussain, Roger Ailes, Nobuyoshi Araki, Arieh Warshel, and Clive Sinclair.
1940 - 2002
HPI: 60.81
Rank: 80
1940 - Present
HPI: 60.75
Rank: 81
1940 - Present
HPI: 60.70
Rank: 82
1940 - Present
HPI: 60.66
Rank: 83
1940 - Present
HPI: 60.26
Rank: 84
1940 - Present
HPI: 60.17
Rank: 85
1940 - Present
HPI: 60.08
Rank: 86
1940 - Present
HPI: 60.07
Rank: 87
1940 - 2021
HPI: 59.93
Rank: 88
1940 - 2017
HPI: 59.61
Rank: 89
1940 - Present
HPI: 59.60
Rank: 90
1940 - Present
HPI: 59.51
Rank: 91
1940 - 2021
HPI: 59.38
Rank: 92
Among people born in United States, Anthony Fauci ranks 1,364 out of 18,182. Before him are Betty Ford (1918), Andie MacDowell (1958), Charles Ives (1874), Eugene Merle Shoemaker (1928), Jack Elam (1920), and John Heard (1946). After him are Ben Gazzara (1930), George Armitage Miller (1920), Ken Kesey (1935), Joshua Lederberg (1925), Iris Apfel (1921), and William Fichtner (1956).
1918 - 2011
HPI: 60.11
Rank: 1,358
1958 - Present
HPI: 60.10
Rank: 1,359
1874 - 1954
HPI: 60.10
Rank: 1,360
1928 - 1997
HPI: 60.10
Rank: 1,361
1920 - 2003
HPI: 60.09
Rank: 1,362
1946 - 2017
HPI: 60.09
Rank: 1,363
1940 - Present
HPI: 60.08
Rank: 1,364
1930 - 2012
HPI: 60.07
Rank: 1,365
1920 - 2012
HPI: 60.07
Rank: 1,366
1935 - 2001
HPI: 60.07
Rank: 1,367
1925 - 2008
HPI: 60.06
Rank: 1,368
1921 - Present
HPI: 60.06
Rank: 1,369
1956 - Present
HPI: 60.05
Rank: 1,370
Among physicians born in United States, Anthony Fauci ranks 21. Before him are Louis Ignarro (1941), Baruch Samuel Blumberg (1925), George H. Hitchings (1905), E. Donnall Thomas (1920), Joseph Erlanger (1874), and Michael Stuart Brown (1941). After him are Patch Adams (1945), George Whipple (1878), Henry Heimlich (1920), Dickinson W. Richards (1895), Jack Kevorkian (1928), and John O'Keefe (1939).
1941 - Present
HPI: 61.29
Rank: 15
1925 - 2011
HPI: 61.25
Rank: 16
1905 - 1998
HPI: 61.20
Rank: 17
1920 - 2012
HPI: 60.86
Rank: 18
1874 - 1965
HPI: 60.54
Rank: 19
1941 - Present
HPI: 60.43
Rank: 20
1940 - Present
HPI: 60.08
Rank: 21
1945 - Present
HPI: 59.87
Rank: 22
1878 - 1976
HPI: 59.17
Rank: 23
1920 - 2016
HPI: 57.90
Rank: 24
1895 - 1973
HPI: 57.84
Rank: 25
1928 - 2011
HPI: 57.62
Rank: 26
1939 - Present
HPI: 57.53
Rank: 27