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Ralph Bunche

1904 - 1971

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Ralph Johnson Bunche ( BUNCH; 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 1,045,246 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 52 in 2019). Ralph Bunche is the 36th most popular diplomat (up from 43rd in 2019), the 2,072nd most popular biography from United States (up from 3,121st in 2019) and the 6th most popular American Diplomat.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 55

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.97

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.13

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among DIPLOMATS

Among diplomats, Ralph Bunche ranks 36 out of 90. Before him are Alfonso García Robles, Giovanni Villani, George Blake, Yukiya Amano, Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, and Amr Moussa. After him are Porfirio Rubirosa, Dean Acheson, Martin Luther, Mikhail Borodin, Jean Kennedy Smith, and William J. Burns.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Ralph Bunche ranks 79. Before him are Kuvempu, Felix Nussbaum, Luigi Dallapiccola, Yves Congar, Minoru Genda, and Ba Jin. After him are Walther Hewel, Edmond Hamilton, Heinz Jost, Lyudmila Rudenko, George Stevens, and María Zambrano. Among people deceased in 1971, Ralph Bunche ranks 49. Before him are Helene Weigel, Mathilde Kschessinska, Ub Iwerks, Archduchess Adelheid of Austria, Gene Vincent, and Reinhold Niebuhr. After him are Vladislav Volkov, T. V. Soong, Jo Siffert, Philippe Thys, J. D. Bernal, and Viktor Patsayev.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ralph Bunche ranks 2,072 out of 20,380. Before him are Daniel Stern (1957), Prescott Bush (1895), Michael Massee (1952), Julius Erving (1950), Casey Affleck (1975), and Rami Malek (1981). After him are Bettie Page (1923), Steven Soderbergh (1963), Joel Silver (1952), Don Budge (1915), Henry Heimlich (1920), and Toby Keith (1961).

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Among DIPLOMATS In United States

Among diplomats born in United States, Ralph Bunche ranks 6. Before him are Pocahontas (1595), John Jay (1745), John R. Bolton (1948), Antony Blinken (1962), and George F. Kennan (1904). After him are Dean Acheson (1893), Jean Kennedy Smith (1928), William J. Burns (1956), Richard Holbrooke (1941), Victoria Nuland (1961), and Adlai Stevenson II (1900).

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