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Samuel P. Huntington

1927 - 2008

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Samuel Phillips Huntington (April 18, 1927 – December 24, 2008) was an American political scientist, adviser, and academic. He spent more than half a century at Harvard University, where he was director of Harvard's Center for International Affairs and the Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor. During the presidency of Jimmy Carter, Huntington was the White House Coordinator of Security Planning for the National Security Council. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Samuel P. Huntington has received more than 1,700,086 page views. His biography is available in 65 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 64 in 2019). Samuel P. Huntington is the most popular political scientist, the 199th most popular biography from United States (down from 197th in 2019) and the most popular American Political Scientist.

Huntington is most famous for his book "The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order."

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Among POLITICAL SCIENTISTS

Among political scientists, Samuel P. Huntington ranks 1 out of 46. After him are Étienne de La Boétie, Francis Fukuyama, Johan Galtung, Christian Lous Lange, Georg Jellinek, Harold Lasswell, Hans Morgenthau, Ralf Dahrendorf, Aleksandr Dugin, Benedict Anderson, and Gene Sharp.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Samuel P. Huntington ranks 9. Before him are Ferenc Puskás, Gina Lollobrigida, Günter Grass, Bhumibol Adulyadej, Olof Palme, and Roger Moore. After him are Peter Falk, Vladimir Komarov, Mstislav Rostropovich, Turgut Özal, K. Alex Müller, and László Kubala. Among people deceased in 2008, Samuel P. Huntington ranks 7. Before him are Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Bobby Fischer, Edmund Hillary, Yves Saint Laurent, Suharto, and Paul Newman. After him are Chinghiz Aitmatov, Albert Hofmann, Irena Sendler, Charlton Heston, Arthur C. Clarke, and Miriam Makeba.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Samuel P. Huntington ranks 199 out of 20,380. Before him are Jeffrey Epstein (1953), Mel Gibson (1956), George Lucas (1944), Brigham Young (1801), Jon Voight (1938), and Ben Affleck (1972). After him are Whitney Houston (1963), Herman Melville (1819), Buster Keaton (1895), Johnny Cash (1932), Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803), and Steve McQueen (1930).

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Among POLITICAL SCIENTISTS In United States

Among political scientists born in United States, Samuel P. Huntington ranks 1. After him are Francis Fukuyama (1952), Harold Lasswell (1902), Gene Sharp (1928), Robert A. Dahl (1915), Joseph Nye (1937), John Mearsheimer (1947), Norman Finkelstein (1953), Robert D. Putnam (1941), William Graham Sumner (1840), Robert Keohane (1941), and Graham Allison (1940).

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