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George Tenet

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George John Tenet (born January 5, 1953) is an American intelligence official and academic who served as the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) for the United States Central Intelligence Agency, as well as a Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at Georgetown University. Tenet held the position as the DCI from July 1997 to July 2004, making him the second-longest-serving director in the agency's history—behind Allen Welsh Dulles—as well as one of the few DCIs to serve under two U.S. presidents of opposing political parties. He played a key role in overseeing intelligence regarding weapons of mass destruction in advance of the Iraq War. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Tenet has received more than 1,514,269 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). George Tenet is the 14,181st most popular politician (down from 13,997th in 2019), the 6,399th most popular biography from United States (up from 7,179th in 2019) and the 412th most popular American Politician.

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  • 4.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, George Tenet ranks 14,181 out of 19,576. Before him are Antoni Macierewicz, Sergei Zubatov, Ho Ching, Meretseger, Eugenia Charles, and Khaldoon Al Mubarak. After him are Thrasymedes, Hamoud bin Mohammed of Zanzibar, Evika Siliņa, Bob Dadae, Refat Chubarov, and Alfred Deakin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, George Tenet ranks 296. Before him are Józef Młynarczyk, Patti Scialfa, Carole André, Jacques Villeneuve, Michaël Dudok de Wit, and Ho Ching. After him are Armand Amar, Peter-Michael Kolbe, Toshio Takabayashi, Ernest Bai Koroma, Enzo Trossero, and Cornel West.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, George Tenet ranks 6,399 out of 20,380. Before him are Maurice Costello (1877), John Ratzenberger (1947), Shel Silverstein (1930), Tom Wopat (1951), Annette Haven (1954), and Eriq La Salle (1962). After him are Mädchen Amick (1970), Randal Kleiser (1946), Charlie Dominici (1951), Saul Alinsky (1909), Victor Buono (1938), and Anne Shirley (1918).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, George Tenet ranks 412. Before him are Sarah Childress Polk (1803), Paul H. O'Neill (1935), Letitia Christian Tyler (1790), Marvin Hart (1876), Stephen Hopkins (1707), and Edwin Stanton (1814). After him are Eugene Burton Ely (1886), Charles Bolden (1946), Virginia Hall (1906), John Armstrong Jr. (1758), Timothy Pickering (1745), and Abigail Fillmore (1798).

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