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Fareed Zakaria

1964 - Today

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Fareed Rafiq Zakaria (; born January 20, 1964) is an Indian-born American journalist, political commentator, and author. He is the host of CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS and writes a weekly paid column for The Washington Post. He has been a columnist for Newsweek, editor of Newsweek International, and an editor at large of Time. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fareed Zakaria has received more than 4,622,010 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Fareed Zakaria is the 6,277th most popular writer (down from 5,713th in 2019), the 887th most popular biography from India (down from 752nd in 2019) and the 120th most popular Indian Writer.

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  • 4.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.93

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.99

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.14

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Fareed Zakaria ranks 6,277 out of 7,302. Before him are Howard Jacobson, Mah Laqa Bai, Róža Domašcyna, Lloyd C. Douglas, Dorothy Wordsworth, and Tillie Olsen. After him are Ben Okri, Caroline Norton, John Clellon Holmes, Alexei Panshin, Charlotte Smith, and Polly Samson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1964, Fareed Zakaria ranks 469. Before him are David Eigenberg, Abu Anas al-Libi, Aleksandar Hemon, Tom McGrath, Jan Kounen, and Leri Khabelov. After him are Phil Hellmuth, Makharbek Khadartsev, Carlos Hermosillo, Thomas Lange, Stefano Borgonovo, and Maxi Gnauck.

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In India

Among people born in India, Fareed Zakaria ranks 887 out of 1,861. Before him are Nitin Gadkari (1957), Gita Mehta (1943), Krishan Kant (1927), Sugata Mitra (1952), Mah Laqa Bai (1768), and Simon Pimenta (1920). After him are Norman Pritchard (1877), Kenneth Anderson (1891), Bappi Lahiri (1952), Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar (1919), Aparna Sen (1945), and Mridula Sinha (1942).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Fareed Zakaria ranks 120. Before him are Ravindra Kelekar (1925), Vikram Seth (1952), Varsha Adalja (1940), Buddhadeb Dasgupta (1944), Gita Mehta (1943), and Mah Laqa Bai (1768). After him are Nabaneeta Dev Sen (1938), Kaifi Azmi (1919), Rahat Indori (1950), Rohinton Mistry (1952), Saroo Brierley (1981), and Geetanjali Shree (1957).

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