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Jim Yong Kim

1959 - Today

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Jim Yong Kim (Korean: 김용; born December 8, 1959), also known as Kim Yong (김용/金墉), is an American physician and anthropologist who served as the 12th president of the World Bank from 2012 to 2019. A global health leader, Kim was formerly the chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a co-founder and executive director of Partners In Health before serving as the President of Dartmouth College from 2009 to 2012, becoming the first Asian American president of an Ivy League institution. Kim was named the world's 50th most powerful person by Forbes Magazine's List of The World's Most Powerful People in 2013. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jim Yong Kim has received more than 1,432,997 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Jim Yong Kim is the 401st most popular physician (down from 391st in 2019), the 146th most popular biography from South Korea (down from 144th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular South Korean Physician.

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  • 51.39

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 42

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.56

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.68

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Jim Yong Kim ranks 401 out of 502. Before him are Paul Janssen, Carl Lange, Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Jean Baptiste François Pierre Bulliard, Zilda Arns, and Wilhelm Stekel. After him are Paul Neumann, Kusumoto Ine, Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Theodoor Hendrik van de Velde, John Latham, and Vladimir Filatov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Jim Yong Kim ranks 128. Before him are Neal Stephenson, Takaaki Kajita, Catherine Keener, Patrick Bruel, Baltazar Maria de Morais Júnior, and Pietro Vierchowod. After him are Bernardo Rezende, Roberto Moreno, Irene Cara, Nobuo Uematsu, Steven Knight, and Hassan Diab.

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In South Korea

Among people born in South Korea, Jim Yong Kim ranks 146 out of 944. Before him are Ho Jong-suk (1908), Stephen Kim Sou-hwan (1922), Yu Kil-chun (1856), Bak Jungyang (1872), Heo Nanseolheon (1563), and Chungmok of Goryeo (1337). After him are Park Chanyeol (1992), Park Won-soon (1956), Son Heung-min (1992), Ha Ji-won (1978), Choi Min-sik (1962), and Kim Ung-yong (1963).

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Among PHYSICIANS In South Korea

Among physicians born in South Korea, Jim Yong Kim ranks 3. Before him are Jang-geum (1550) and Heo Jun (1546).

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