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Chris Hughes

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Christopher Hughes (born November 26, 1983) is an American entrepreneur and author who co-founded and served as spokesman for the online social directory and networking site Facebook until 2007. He was the publisher and editor-in-chief of The New Republic from 2012 to 2016. Hughes co-founded the Economic Security Project (ESP) in 2016. In 2018, he published Fair Shot: Rethinking Inequality and How We Earn and in 2025 he published Marketcrafters: The 100-year Struggle to Shape the American Economy. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2024). Chris Hughes is the 708th most popular businessperson (down from 666th in 2024), the 11,916th most popular biography from United States (down from 10,749th in 2019) and the 248th most popular American Businessperson.

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Chris Hughes ranks 708 out of 847. Before him are Lamar Hunt, Lynn Hill, Christy Walton, Leonard Chess, Cindy McCain, and Paul Stoddart. After him are John Peter Zenger, Samuel Brannan, Xu Rongmao, Heather Mills, Kaz Hirai, and Ian Livingstone.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1983, Chris Hughes ranks 200. Before him are Julien Faubert, Andreas Ivanschitz, Megan Boone, Heiko Westermann, Takuya Sugiyama, and Stephen Kelly. After him are Macklemore, André Santos, Jonás Gutiérrez, Shinya Chiba, Danko Lazović, and Svetlana Khodchenkova.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Chris Hughes ranks 11,918 out of 20,380. Before him are Joanna Kerns (1953), Tom Carper (1947), Bruce Weitz (1943), Tatyana Ali (1979), Krystal Jung (1994), and Damon Runyon (1880). After him are Gintaras Grušas (1961), John Hiatt (1952), Kimberly Guilfoyle (1969), Matthew Davis (1978), C. J. Ramone (1965), and Leon Rippy (1949).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, Chris Hughes ranks 248. Before him are Alan Eustace (1957), Irwin M. Jacobs (1933), Lamar Hunt (1932), Lynn Hill (1961), Christy Walton (1949), and Cindy McCain (1954). After him are Samuel Brannan (1819), Michael Durant (1961), Horace Elgin Dodge (1868), Sumner Redstone (1923), John Wanamaker (1838), and Peter Ueberroth (1937).

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