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Christopher A. Wray

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Christopher Asher Wray (born December 17, 1966) is an American attorney who served as the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from 2017 to 2025. He was nominated by President Donald Trump to replace James Comey. He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on July 30. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Christopher A. Wray has received more than 4,245,724 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Christopher A. Wray is the 87th most popular lawyer (down from 67th in 2019), the 9,263rd most popular biography from United States (down from 8,248th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular American Lawyer.

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  • 24

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  • 3.55

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among LAWYERS

Among lawyers, Christopher A. Wray ranks 87 out of 136Before him are Ken Starr, Christian Gottfried Körner, A. V. Dicey, Doug Emhoff, G. Gordon Liddy, and Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw. After him are Clara González, Aisha Rateb, Karim Ahmad Khan, Alberto Nisman, Felix Frankfurter, and John Dean.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1966, Christopher A. Wray ranks 300Before him are Zlatko Yankov, Scott Derrickson, Lucrecia Martel, Randy Barnes, Dieudonné M'bala M'bala, and Les Ferdinand. After him are Alexis Denisof, Sabine Moussier, Andrey Lugovoy, Corrie Sanders, Vivian Wu, and Angela Visser.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Christopher A. Wray ranks 9,263 out of 20,380Before him are Fred M. Vinson (1890), Clyde Cessna (1879), Joseph Dunford (1955), Alan Jackson (1958), James Wilkinson (1757), and James Ewing (1866). After him are Alexis Denisof (1966), Steve Lawrence (1935), Edmund Breese (1871), Rodger Ward (1921), Helene Costello (1906), and Archibald MacLeish (1892).

Among LAWYERS In United States

Among lawyers born in United States, Christopher A. Wray ranks 23Before him are Michael Cohen (1966), Clarence Darrow (1857), Ken Starr (1946), Doug Emhoff (1964), G. Gordon Liddy (1930), and Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw (1959). After him are John Dean (1938), Roscoe Pound (1870), Benjamin N. Cardozo (1870), Robert Treat Paine (1731), Judy Sheindlin (1942), and Robert Lighthizer (1947).