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Katharine Graham

1917 - 2001

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Katharine Meyer Graham (June 16, 1917 – July 17, 2001) was an American newspaper publisher. She led her family's newspaper, The Washington Post, from 1963 to 1991. Graham presided over the paper as it reported on the Watergate scandal, which eventually led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Katharine Graham has received more than 3,648,859 page views. Her biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Katharine Graham is the 400th most popular businessperson (down from 241st in 2019), the 4,804th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,704th in 2019) and the 120th most popular American Businessperson.

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  • 57.64

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.18

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.59

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Katharine Graham ranks 400 out of 847. Before her are David Geffen, Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Peter Thiel, Henry Cole, Eddie Jordan, and Pavel Durov. After her are Tatsumi Kimishima, Li Ning, Robert Monroe, Paul Rusesabagina, Ken Aston, and William Knox D'Arcy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Katharine Graham ranks 187. Before her are Musine Kokalari, Otto Glória, Christiane Rochefort, I Gusti Ngurah Rai, Oliver Tambo, and Ann Rutherford. After her are Inge Scholl, Fidel Sánchez Hernández, Song Ping, Lise Nørgaard, Johannes Bobrowski, and Pío Leyva. Among people deceased in 2001, Katharine Graham ranks 160. Before her are Don Bradman, Arie van Vliet, Malcom McLean, Robert Leckie, Enrique Mateos, and Ninette de Valois. After her are Ken Aston, Gordon R. Dickson, Mohamed Atta, Micheline Ostermeyer, Jean Richard, and John Lewis.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Katharine Graham ranks 4,804 out of 20,380. Before her are Christine Lahti (1950), Anita O'Day (1919), Cammie King (1934), Melvin Purvis (1903), Sargent Shriver (1915), and Marlyn Meltzer (1922). After her are Harold Arlen (1905), Dee Dee Bridgewater (1950), Joseph Gordon-Levitt (1981), Virginia Dare (1587), Mildred McDaniel (1933), and John Gray (1951).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, Katharine Graham ranks 120. Before her are Franklin Clarence Mars (1883), Andrew Tate (1986), Reed Hastings (1960), Armand Hammer (1898), Malcom McLean (1913), and David Geffen (1943). After her are Robert Monroe (1915), Roy Raymond (1947), Ron Woodroof (1950), Charles Yerkes (1837), Stephen A. Schwarzman (1947), and Sylvia Beach (1887).

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