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Merrick Garland

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Merrick Brian Garland (born November 13, 1952) is an American lawyer and jurist who served as the 86th United States attorney general from 2021 to 2025. He previously served as a circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1997 to 2021. In 2016, President Barack Obama nominated Garland to the U.S. Supreme Court, but the U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Merrick Garland has received more than 9,875,181 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Merrick Garland is the 73rd most popular lawyer (down from 66th in 2019), the 6,635th most popular biography from United States (up from 8,008th in 2019) and the 16th most popular American Lawyer.

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  • 9.9M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.10

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.88

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among LAWYERS

Among lawyers, Merrick Garland ranks 73 out of 136. Before him are John Selden, Koen Lenaerts, Navi Pillay, Wendell Willkie, Henry de Bracton, and Lawrence Lessig. After him are Mercedes Comaposada, Michael Cohen, Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem, Louise Arbour, Clarence Darrow, and George Hadley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Merrick Garland ranks 367. Before him are Mimi Leder, Mary Ellen Trainor, Jenny Agutter, Gene Haas, André Comte-Sponville, and Ketil Bjørnstad. After him are David Weber, Carol Ann Susi, Jiří Paroubek, Bill Walton, Yousaf Raza Gillani, and Henrique Mecking.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Merrick Garland ranks 6,635 out of 20,380. Before him are Gary Graham (1950), Chloë Grace Moretz (1997), Janet Reno (1938), Alan Helffrich (1900), Arthur Barnard (1929), and Jaroslav Pelikan (1923). After him are Tiffani Thiessen (1974), Haley Lu Richardson (1995), Gunther Schuller (1925), David Weber (1952), Sean Patrick Flanery (1965), and Harriet Jacobs (1813).

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Among LAWYERS In United States

Among lawyers born in United States, Merrick Garland ranks 16. Before him are Roy Cohn (1927), Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841), James B. Donovan (1916), William Rehnquist (1924), Wendell Willkie (1892), and Lawrence Lessig (1961). After him are Michael Cohen (1966), Clarence Darrow (1857), Ken Starr (1946), Doug Emhoff (1964), G. Gordon Liddy (1930), and Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw (1959).

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