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Henry Louis Gates Jr.

1950 - Today

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Henry Louis Gates Jr. (born September 16, 1950) is an American literary critic, professor, historian, and filmmaker who serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He is a trustee of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henry Louis Gates Jr. has received more than 3,015,431 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the 6,917th most popular writer (down from 6,244th in 2019), the 14,921st most popular biography from United States (down from 13,997th in 2019) and the 1,068th most popular American Writer.

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  • 3.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 44.94

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.22

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.12

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Henry Louis Gates Jr. ranks 6,917 out of 7,302. Before him are Laurent Gaudé, Natalya Vorozhbyt, Mark Manson, Alexey Dreev, Vicenç Pagès, and Sidney Lanier. After him are K. A. Applegate, Elena Chizhova, Prvoslav Vujcic, Doris Kareva, Heston Blumenthal, and Jenny Han.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Henry Louis Gates Jr. ranks 732. Before him are Pawan Kumar Chamling, Phoebe Snow, Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Todd McCarthy, Nasirul Mulk, and Linda Bassett. After him are Tom Alter, Khandu Wangchuk, Goutam Ghose, Jóhannes Eðvaldsson, Winston E. Scott, and Charles Frazier.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Henry Louis Gates Jr. ranks 14,921 out of 20,380. Before him are Aya Cash (1982), Steve Blum (1960), Thomas Murray (null), Jason Butler Harner (1970), Sean Parnell (1962), and Billy Gould (1963). After him are George W. Norris (1861), Lisa Leslie (1972), Billy Casper (1931), Dale Bumpers (1925), K. A. Applegate (1956), and Brenda Russell (1949).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Henry Louis Gates Jr. ranks 1,068. Before him are Robert B. Spencer (1962), Alice Dunbar Nelson (1875), Paul Attanasio (1959), Stephen Thomas Erlewine (1973), Mark Manson (1984), and Sidney Lanier (1842). After him are K. A. Applegate (1956), Jenny Han (1980), Matthew Weiner (1965), Doris Kearns Goodwin (1943), Meghan McCain (1984), and Alfred Gough (1967).

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