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Drew Gilpin Faust

1947 - Today

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Catharine Drew Gilpin Faust (born September 18, 1947) is an American historian who served as the 28th president of Harvard University, the first woman in that role. She was Harvard's first president since 1672 without an undergraduate or graduate degree from Harvard and the first to have been raised in the South. Faust is also the founding dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Drew Gilpin Faust has received more than 1,057,217 page views. Her biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia. Drew Gilpin Faust is the 514th most popular historian (down from 295th in 2019), the 9,779th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,097th in 2019) and the 40th most popular American Historian.

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  • 51.45

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.63

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.77

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Drew Gilpin Faust ranks 514 out of 561. Before her are Carroll Quigley, A. H. M. Jones, Mary Beard, Vasily Struve, Lawrence Stone, and Mark Mazower. After her are Albrecht Weber, Ivan Charota, R. H. Tawney, Romila Thapar, David Bordwell, and Andrei Lankov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Drew Gilpin Faust ranks 699. Before her are Joseph Nicolosi, Nicanor de Carvalho, Barbara Ferrell, Enrique Chazarreta, Ching Wan Tang, and Rupert Holmes. After her are Harvey Mason, Emiliano Mondonico, Jim Marurai, Stuart Baird, Keri Hulme, and Kerry Melville.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Drew Gilpin Faust ranks 9,779 out of 20,380. Before her are Tim Hardaway (1966), Edward James Roye (1815), Amanda Bynes (1986), Jaime King (1979), Pamela Bach (1963), and Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823). After her are Harry Turtledove (1949), Katherine MacDonald (1891), Lawrence H. Aller (1913), Victor Schertzinger (1888), Red Mitchell (1927), and Chris Fehn (1973).

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Among HISTORIANS In United States

Among historians born in United States, Drew Gilpin Faust ranks 40. Before her are Alfred W. Crosby (1931), Christopher Lasch (1932), American Horse (1840), Stephen F. Cohen (1938), Stephen Greenblatt (1943), and Carroll Quigley (1910). After her are David Bordwell (1947), Richard G. Hovannisian (1932), Richard Taruskin (1945), James H. Billington (1929), Elaine Pagels (1943), and Mary Ritter Beard (1876).

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