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Ralph Bunche

1904 - 1971

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Ralph Johnson Bunche (; August 7, 1904 – December 9, 1971) was an American political scientist, diplomat, and leading actor in the mid-20th-century decolonization process and US civil rights movement, who received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his late 1940s mediation in Israel. He is the first black Nobel laureate and the first person of African descent to be awarded a Nobel Prize. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ralph Bunche has received more than 980,434 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Ralph Bunche is the 43rd most popular diplomat (up from 44th in 2019), the 3,129th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,788th in 2019) and the 8th most popular American Diplomat.

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Among DIPLOMATS

Among diplomats, Ralph Bunche ranks 43 out of 52Before him are Yukiya Amano, Mikhail Borodin, Martin Luther, Zannanza, Roger Casement, and Amr Moussa. After him are Richard Holbrooke, Friedrich Martens, Carl Jacob Burckhardt, Paul Schmidt, J. Christopher Stevens, and Damião de Góis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Ralph Bunche ranks 121Before him are Wang Ming, Achille Varzi, Lidia Zamenhof, Tevfik Esenç, James J. Gibson, and William L. Shirer. After him are Ivar Ballangrud, Seán MacBride, Yulii Khariton, Prince Ernst of Hohenberg, Peter Yorck von Wartenburg, and Helen Kane. Among people deceased in 1971, Ralph Bunche ranks 86Before him are Princess Anna of Montenegro, Gregorio Pietro Agagianian, Edith Tolkien, Bella Darvi, Mikhail Yangel, and Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria. After him are Georgi Asparuhov, Albin Stenroos, Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, Princess Adelaide of Schaumburg-Lippe, Naoya Shiga, and Mikhail Romm.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ralph Bunche ranks 3,129 out of 18,182Before him are Steve Cropper (1941), Douglas Tompkins (1943), Jesse Jackson (1941), Mabel Normand (1892), James Curtis Hepburn (1815), and Wilford Brimley (1934). After him are Dick Dale (1937), Robert Gates (1943), Howlin' Wolf (1910), Jonathan Frakes (1952), Brent Spiner (1949), and Rensis Likert (1903).

Among DIPLOMATS In United States

Among diplomats born in United States, Ralph Bunche ranks 8Before him are John Jay (1745), John R. Bolton (1948), George F. Kennan (1904), Antony Blinken (1962), Dean Acheson (1893), and Jean Kennedy Smith (1928). After him are Richard Holbrooke (1941), J. Christopher Stevens (1960), Victoria Nuland (1961), William J. Burns (1956), Joseph Grew (1880), and Edward M. House (1858).