1954 - Today
Lawrence Henry Summers (born November 30, 1954) is an American economist who served as the 71st United States Secretary of the Treasury from 1999 to 2001 and as director of the National Economic Council from 2009 to 2010. He also served as president of Harvard University from 2001 to 2006, where he is the Charles W. Eliot University Professor and director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School. In November 2023, Summers joined the board of directors of artificial general intelligence company OpenAI.Summers became a professor of economics at Harvard University in 1983. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lawrence Summers has received more than 3,090,349 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Lawrence Summers is the 284th most popular economist (down from 271st in 2019), the 6,265th most popular biography from United States (up from 7,293rd in 2019) and the 93rd most popular American Economist.
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Among economists, Lawrence Summers ranks 284 out of 315. Before him are Robert Barro, Aušra Augustinavičiūtė, Fakhruddin Ahmed, Karl Knies, Michael Kremer, and Seth Godin. After him are Shoshana Zuboff, Anna Schwartz, Alice Salomon, Boediono, Zbigniew Messner, and Jesús Huerta de Soto.
1944 - Present
HPI: 47.71
Rank: 278
1927 - 2005
HPI: 47.51
Rank: 279
1940 - Present
HPI: 47.45
Rank: 280
1821 - 1898
HPI: 47.42
Rank: 281
1964 - Present
HPI: 47.36
Rank: 282
1960 - Present
HPI: 47.10
Rank: 283
1954 - Present
HPI: 47.09
Rank: 284
1951 - Present
HPI: 47.02
Rank: 285
1915 - 2012
HPI: 46.99
Rank: 286
1872 - 1948
HPI: 46.93
Rank: 287
1943 - Present
HPI: 46.90
Rank: 288
1929 - 2014
HPI: 46.82
Rank: 289
1956 - Present
HPI: 46.81
Rank: 290
Among people born in 1954, Lawrence Summers ranks 268. Before him are Mumia Abu-Jamal, Guy Kawasaki, Trevor Rabin, Ruby Bridges, David Keith, and Dragan Vasiljković. After him are Adrian Vandenberg, Ray Parker Jr., Hansi Hinterseer, Anthony Head, Michel Camilo, and Laima Vaikule.
1954 - Present
HPI: 47.27
Rank: 262
1954 - Present
HPI: 47.27
Rank: 263
1954 - Present
HPI: 47.19
Rank: 264
1954 - Present
HPI: 47.14
Rank: 265
1954 - Present
HPI: 47.14
Rank: 266
1954 - Present
HPI: 47.12
Rank: 267
1954 - Present
HPI: 47.09
Rank: 268
1954 - Present
HPI: 47.07
Rank: 269
1954 - Present
HPI: 47.06
Rank: 270
1954 - Present
HPI: 46.96
Rank: 271
1954 - Present
HPI: 46.93
Rank: 272
1954 - Present
HPI: 46.93
Rank: 273
1954 - Present
HPI: 46.92
Rank: 274
Among people born in United States, Lawrence Summers ranks 6,265 out of 18,182. Before him are Jeanette MacDonald (1903), Bill Carr (1909), Caleb Deschanel (1944), Jay Miner (1932), Cara Williams (1925), and James Haven (1973). After him are Vernon A. Walters (1917), Billie Dove (1903), James Coco (1930), Mark Isham (1951), Jessica Drake (1974), and Charles Stark Draper (1901).
1903 - 1965
HPI: 47.10
Rank: 6,259
1909 - 1966
HPI: 47.10
Rank: 6,260
1944 - Present
HPI: 47.10
Rank: 6,261
1932 - 1994
HPI: 47.10
Rank: 6,262
1925 - 2021
HPI: 47.10
Rank: 6,263
1973 - Present
HPI: 47.09
Rank: 6,264
1954 - Present
HPI: 47.09
Rank: 6,265
1917 - 2002
HPI: 47.09
Rank: 6,266
1903 - 1997
HPI: 47.08
Rank: 6,267
1930 - 1987
HPI: 47.08
Rank: 6,268
1951 - Present
HPI: 47.08
Rank: 6,269
1974 - Present
HPI: 47.08
Rank: 6,270
1901 - 1987
HPI: 47.08
Rank: 6,271
Among economists born in United States, Lawrence Summers ranks 93. Before him are Gordon Tullock (1922), Deirdre McCloskey (1942), Max O. Lorenz (1876), Robert Barro (1944), Michael Kremer (1964), and Seth Godin (1960). After him are Anna Schwartz (1915), Robert Rubin (1938), Charles P. Kindleberger (1910), Walter Block (1941), Henry Charles Carey (1793), and Fischer Black (1938).
1922 - 2014
HPI: 48.21
Rank: 87
1942 - Present
HPI: 48.15
Rank: 88
1876 - 1959
HPI: 48.14
Rank: 89
1944 - Present
HPI: 47.71
Rank: 90
1964 - Present
HPI: 47.36
Rank: 91
1960 - Present
HPI: 47.10
Rank: 92
1954 - Present
HPI: 47.09
Rank: 93
1915 - 2012
HPI: 46.99
Rank: 94
1938 - Present
HPI: 46.51
Rank: 95
1910 - 2003
HPI: 46.22
Rank: 96
1941 - Present
HPI: 45.90
Rank: 97
1793 - 1879
HPI: 45.63
Rank: 98
1938 - 1995
HPI: 45.28
Rank: 99