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Paul Wolfowitz

1943 - Today

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Paul Dundes Wolfowitz (born December 22, 1943, in Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York City) is an American political scientist and diplomat who served as the 10th President of the World Bank, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense, U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia, and dean of Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University. He is currently a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Having proposed a plan to invade Iraq in 2001, Wolfowitz was an early advocate of the Iraq War and has widely been described as an architect of the war. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Wolfowitz has received more than 1,592,233 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Wolfowitz is the 5,659th most popular politician (up from 6,053rd in 2019), the 1,810th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,063rd in 2019) and the 125th most popular American Politician.

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  • 42

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.95

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.11

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Paul Wolfowitz ranks 5,659 out of 19,576. Before him are Quintus Lutatius Catulus, Haider al-Abadi, Abdul Razak Hussein, Alexis Tsipras, Ilona Zrínyi, and Naftali Bennett. After him are Aureolus, Favila of Asturias, Alexander II of Scotland, Tvrtko II of Bosnia, Amir Peretz, and Shote Galica.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Paul Wolfowitz ranks 129. Before him are Barış Manço, Jacques Dutronc, Armando Guebuza, Martin Campbell, Lorenzo Sanz, and Paul Michael Glaser. After him are Wallace Shawn, Köbi Kuhn, Hervé Villechaize, Luis Carlos Galán, Ken Norton, and Robbie Robertson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Paul Wolfowitz ranks 1,810 out of 20,380. Before him are Billy Zane (1966), Thomas Midgley Jr. (1889), Zack Snyder (1966), Christopher A. Sims (1942), Sonny Rollins (1930), and Al Lettieri (1928). After him are Philip Abelson (1913), Charles Duke (1935), Paul L. Smith (1936), Cole Porter (1891), Floyd Patterson (1935), and Bob Fosse (1927).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Paul Wolfowitz ranks 125. Before him are Mitch McConnell (1942), Hiram Bingham III (1875), Wolfgang Kapp (1858), Clement Greenberg (1909), Spiro Agnew (1918), and William Walker (1824). After him are Sam Houston (1793), Ben Carson (1951), Ron Paul (1935), Cyrus Vance (1917), Jim Garrison (1921), and Henry A. Wallace (1888).

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