POLITICIAN

Ralph Northam

1959 - Today

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Ralph Shearer Northam (born September 13, 1959) is an American physician and politician who was the 73rd governor of Virginia from 2018 to 2022. A pediatric neurologist by occupation, he was an officer in the U.S. Army Medical Corps from 1984 to 1992. Northam, a member of the Democratic Party, was the 40th lieutenant governor of Virginia from 2014 to 2018 before winning the governorship against the Republican nominee Ed Gillespie in the 2017 election. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ralph Northam has received more than 3,581,548 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Ralph Northam is the 18,360th most popular politician (down from 16,233rd in 2019), the 14,927th most popular biography from United States (down from 12,103rd in 2019) and the 1,121st most popular American Politician.

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  • 3.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 36.50

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.70

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.63

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ralph Northam ranks 18,360 out of 19,576. Before him are Dale Bumpers, Lado Gurgenidze, Whina Cooper, Hiroshi Abe, Gábor Vona, and Ben Williams. After him are Paul Laxalt, George Osborne, Zabiullah Mujahid, Bruce Babbitt, Paul Tsongas, and Kenji Ogiwara.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Ralph Northam ranks 706. Before him are Cindy Hyde-Smith, Dagmar Lurz, Paul Attanasio, Göran Hägglund, Andrew Hoy, and Nikolay Chernetskiy. After him are Ben Elton, Alain Bondue, Mark Meadows, Pamela C. Rasmussen, Hiroshi Ohashi, and Neena Gupta.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ralph Northam ranks 14,927 out of 20,380. Before him are April Winchell (1960), Juicy J (1975), Angela Goethals (1977), Donald Cerrone (1983), Henry Simmons (1970), and Robert Hoffman (1980). After him are Linda Manz (1961), Thomas Mann (1991), Paul Laxalt (1922), Ginny Duenkel (1947), Bhad Bhabie (2003), and Jenny Han (1980).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Ralph Northam ranks 1,121. Before him are Jim Doyle (1945), Eliot Engel (1947), Hal Rogers (1937), Sean Parnell (1962), George W. Norris (1861), and Dale Bumpers (1925). After him are Paul Laxalt (1922), Bruce Babbitt (1938), Paul Tsongas (1941), Phil Scott (1958), Ryan Zinke (1961), and Jim Clyburn (1940).

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