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Harold Lasswell

1902 - 1978

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Harold Dwight Lasswell (February 13, 1902 – December 18, 1978) was an American political scientist and communications theorist. He earned his bachelor's degree in philosophy and economics and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He was a professor of law at Yale University. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Harold Lasswell has received more than 522,143 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Harold Lasswell is the 7th most popular political scientist (down from 4th in 2019), the 799th most popular biography from United States (down from 614th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular American Political Scientist.

Harold Lasswell is most famous for his work on propaganda and the use of communication in politics.

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Among POLITICAL SCIENTISTS

Among political scientists, Harold Lasswell ranks 7 out of 46. Before him are Samuel P. Huntington, Étienne de La Boétie, Francis Fukuyama, Johan Galtung, Christian Lous Lange, and Georg Jellinek. After him are Hans Morgenthau, Ralf Dahrendorf, Aleksandr Dugin, Benedict Anderson, Gene Sharp, and Maurice Duverger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Harold Lasswell ranks 34. Before him are Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, Fritz Strassmann, André Michel Lwoff, Alva Myrdal, Juscelino Kubitschek, and Marcel Breuer. After him are Émile Benveniste, Alexander Luria, Theodore Schultz, Reinhard Gehlen, Günther Anders, and Prince George, Duke of Kent. Among people deceased in 1978, Harold Lasswell ranks 27. Before him are Willy Messerschmitt, Ronnie Peterson, Vincent du Vigneaud, Mohammed Daoud Khan, Hasso von Manteuffel, and Jim Jones. After him are Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, Nazli Sabri, József Bozsik, Herta Oberheuser, Ed Wood, and Claude François.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Harold Lasswell ranks 799 out of 20,380. Before him are William Alfred Fowler (1911), George Eastman (1854), John Goodman (1952), William Saroyan (1908), Leo Frank (1884), and Frances McDormand (1957). After him are James Cronin (1931), Raymond Davis Jr. (1914), Jimmy Hoffa (1913), Ted Kennedy (1932), Wendell Meredith Stanley (1904), and Pat Morita (1932).

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Among POLITICAL SCIENTISTS In United States

Among political scientists born in United States, Harold Lasswell ranks 3. Before him are Samuel P. Huntington (1927), and Francis Fukuyama (1952). After him are Gene Sharp (1928), Robert A. Dahl (1915), Joseph Nye (1937), John Mearsheimer (1947), Norman Finkelstein (1953), Robert D. Putnam (1941), William Graham Sumner (1840), Robert Keohane (1941), and Graham Allison (1940).

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