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Lloyd Austin

1953 - Today

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Lloyd James Austin III (born August 8, 1953) is a retired United States Army officer and current civil servant who served as the 28th United States secretary of defense from January 22, 2021 to January 20, 2025. Before retiring from the military in 2016, Austin served as the 12th commander of United States Central Command (CENTCOM), beginning in March 2013. Prior to that he served as the 33rd vice chief of staff of the Army from January 2012 to March 2013, and as commander of United States Forces – Iraq from September 2010 to December 2011. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lloyd Austin has received more than 6,828,223 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Lloyd Austin is the 3,669th most popular politician (up from 7,171st in 2019), the 1,161st most popular biography from United States (up from 2,476th in 2019) and the 95th most popular American Politician.

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  • 6.8M

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  • 67.04

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 47

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.26

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.57

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Lloyd Austin ranks 3,669 out of 19,576. Before him are Ye Jianying, Hjalmar Siilasvuo, Louis Joseph, Duke of Vendôme, Clementine Churchill, Menahem, and Ivan Silayev. After him are Ne Win, Xun Yu, Hadım Suleiman Pasha, Piast the Wheelwright, Gottlob Berger, and Emperor Go-Horikawa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Lloyd Austin ranks 46. Before him are Felix Magath, Paul Allen, Andrew Wiles, Alfred Molina, Kitarō, and Wang Yi. After him are Lenín Moreno, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Tess Gerritsen, Cha Bum-kun, Mata Amritanandamayi, and David Morse.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Lloyd Austin ranks 1,161 out of 20,380. Before him are F. Sherwood Rowland (1927), Ed Lauter (1938), Richard Barthelmess (1895), Jennifer Jones (1919), Gina Haspel (1956), and Richard Winters (1918). After him are Shia LaBeouf (1986), Tom Morello (1964), C. Wright Mills (1916), Dennis Rodman (1961), Jerry West (1938), and Robert S. Mulliken (1896).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Lloyd Austin ranks 95. Before him are Janet Yellen (1946), Mike Pence (1959), Laura Bush (1946), Meir Kahane (1932), Andrew Dickson White (1832), and Gina Haspel (1956). After him are Susan Wojcicki (1968), George Papandreou (1952), Allen Dulles (1893), Tecumseh (1768), Paul Ryan (1970), and John Dickinson (1732).

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