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Ruth Bader Ginsburg

1933 - 2020

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Joan Ruth Bader Ginsburg ( BAY-dər GHINZ-burg; née Bader; March 15, 1933 – September 18, 2020) was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020. She was nominated by President Bill Clinton to replace retiring justice Byron White, and at the time was viewed as a moderate consensus-builder. Ginsburg was the first Jewish woman and the second woman to serve on the Court, after Sandra Day O'Connor. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ruth Bader Ginsburg has received more than 33,728,794 page views. Her biography is available in 67 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 60 in 2019). Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the 6th most popular judge (down from 4th in 2019), the 944th most popular biography from United States (down from 662nd in 2019) and the most popular American Judge.

Ruth bader ginsburg is most famous for being the second woman to be appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States. She was appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1993. She was the first ever female justice to serve on the Supreme Court.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 67

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.29

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.08

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among JUDGES

Among judges, Ruth Bader Ginsburg ranks 6 out of 53. Before her are Deborah, Giovanni Falcone, Adly Mansour, Roland Freisler, and Paolo Borsellino. After her are Fritz Bauer, John Roberts, John Marshall, Panagiotis Pikrammenos, Earl Warren, and Maryanne Trump Barry.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Ruth Bader Ginsburg ranks 53. Before her are Richard Rogers, Joan Collins, Charles K. Kao, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Stanley Milgram, and Edward de Bono. After her are Bobby Robson, Wilbur Smith, Ilia II of Georgia, Cormac McCarthy, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, and John Gurdon. Among people deceased in 2020, Ruth Bader Ginsburg ranks 40. Before her are Jiří Menzel, Oliver E. Williamson, Michael Lonsdale, John le Carré, Lucia Bosè, and Kobe Bryant. After her are Nexhmije Hoxha, Eduard Limonov, Kenzō Takada, Luis Sepúlveda, Geert Hofstede, and Mirella Freni.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ruth Bader Ginsburg ranks 944 out of 20,380. Before her are Kenneth Arrow (1921), Edgar Cayce (1877), Estée Lauder (1906), Kobe Bryant (1978), Leon M. Lederman (1922), and James Earl Jones (1931). After her are Billy Bob Thornton (1955), Eugene Merle Shoemaker (1928), Chick Corea (1941), Bugsy Siegel (1906), Henry Way Kendall (1926), and Keith Haring (1958).

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Among JUDGES In United States

Among judges born in United States, Ruth Bader Ginsburg ranks 1. After her are John Roberts (1955), John Marshall (1755), Earl Warren (1891), Maryanne Trump Barry (1937), Clarence Thomas (1948), Thurgood Marshall (1908), Antonin Scalia (1936), Stephen Breyer (1938), Sonia Sotomayor (1954), Samuel Alito (1950), and Anthony Kennedy (1936).

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