1927 - 2008
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 1,599,641 page views. His biography is available in 64 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 62 in 2019). Samuel P. Huntington is the most popular political scientist (up from 2nd in 2019), the 197th most popular biography from United States (up from 210th 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, Samuel P. Huntington ranks 1 out of 29. After him are Étienne de La Boétie, Francis Fukuyama, Harold Lasswell, Georg Jellinek, Hans Morgenthau, Christian Lous Lange, Benedict Anderson, Ralf Dahrendorf, Robert A. Dahl, Johan Galtung, and Maurice Duverger.
1927 - 2008
HPI: 71.60
Rank: 1
1530 - 1563
HPI: 67.47
Rank: 2
1952 - Present
HPI: 65.92
Rank: 3
1902 - 1978
HPI: 65.19
Rank: 4
1851 - 1911
HPI: 64.73
Rank: 5
1904 - 1980
HPI: 64.17
Rank: 6
1869 - 1938
HPI: 63.87
Rank: 7
1936 - 2015
HPI: 62.78
Rank: 8
1929 - 2009
HPI: 62.66
Rank: 9
1915 - 2014
HPI: 62.26
Rank: 10
1930 - 2024
HPI: 62.08
Rank: 11
1917 - 2014
HPI: 60.99
Rank: 12
Among people born in 1927, Samuel P. Huntington ranks 10. Before him are Olof Palme, Roger Moore, Gina Lollobrigida, Günter Grass, Bhumibol Adulyadej, and Sidney Poitier. After him are Peter Falk, Vladimir Komarov, Lawrence Kohlberg, Turgut Özal, Antônio Carlos Jobim, and Mstislav Rostropovich. Among people deceased in 2008, Samuel P. Huntington ranks 10. Before him are Paul Newman, Edmund Hillary, Chinghiz Aitmatov, Arthur C. Clarke, Irena Sendler, and Suharto. After him are Charlton Heston, Albert Hofmann, Hua Guofeng, Sydney Pollack, Jørn Utzon, and Harold Pinter.
1927 - 1986
HPI: 77.24
Rank: 4
1927 - 2017
HPI: 75.87
Rank: 5
1927 - 2023
HPI: 75.16
Rank: 6
1927 - 2015
HPI: 74.96
Rank: 7
1927 - 2016
HPI: 74.87
Rank: 8
1927 - 2022
HPI: 71.81
Rank: 9
1927 - 2008
HPI: 71.60
Rank: 10
1927 - 2011
HPI: 70.65
Rank: 11
1927 - 1967
HPI: 70.23
Rank: 12
1927 - 1987
HPI: 69.30
Rank: 13
1927 - 1993
HPI: 67.43
Rank: 14
1927 - 1994
HPI: 67.39
Rank: 15
1927 - 2007
HPI: 67.24
Rank: 16
1925 - 2008
HPI: 73.22
Rank: 4
1919 - 2008
HPI: 73.20
Rank: 5
1928 - 2008
HPI: 72.29
Rank: 6
1917 - 2008
HPI: 72.08
Rank: 7
1910 - 2008
HPI: 71.83
Rank: 8
1921 - 2008
HPI: 71.78
Rank: 9
1927 - 2008
HPI: 71.60
Rank: 10
1923 - 2008
HPI: 71.36
Rank: 11
1906 - 2008
HPI: 71.17
Rank: 12
1921 - 2008
HPI: 70.08
Rank: 13
1934 - 2008
HPI: 68.08
Rank: 14
1918 - 2008
HPI: 67.10
Rank: 15
1930 - 2008
HPI: 66.68
Rank: 16
Among people born in United States, Samuel P. Huntington ranks 197 out of 18,182. Before him are Gary Cooper (1901), John Rawls (1921), Whitney Houston (1963), John Jay (1745), George Lucas (1944), and Alec Baldwin (1958). After him are Gene Cernan (1934), Ben Affleck (1972), B. F. Skinner (1904), Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803), Barry White (1944), and Henry Fonda (1905).
1901 - 1961
HPI: 71.70
Rank: 191
1921 - 2002
HPI: 71.69
Rank: 192
1963 - 2012
HPI: 71.64
Rank: 193
1745 - 1829
HPI: 71.63
Rank: 194
1944 - Present
HPI: 71.63
Rank: 195
1958 - Present
HPI: 71.61
Rank: 196
1927 - 2008
HPI: 71.60
Rank: 197
1934 - 2017
HPI: 71.58
Rank: 198
1972 - Present
HPI: 71.57
Rank: 199
1904 - 1990
HPI: 71.57
Rank: 200
1803 - 1882
HPI: 71.56
Rank: 201
1944 - 2003
HPI: 71.53
Rank: 202
1905 - 1982
HPI: 71.52
Rank: 203
Among political scientists born in United States, Samuel P. Huntington ranks 1. After him are Francis Fukuyama (1952), Harold Lasswell (1902), Robert A. Dahl (1915), Gene Sharp (1928), Joseph Nye (1937), Robert D. Putnam (1941), John Mearsheimer (1947), William Graham Sumner (1840), Norman Finkelstein (1953), Robert Keohane (1941), and Graham Allison (1940).
1927 - 2008
HPI: 71.60
Rank: 1
1952 - Present
HPI: 65.92
Rank: 2
1902 - 1978
HPI: 65.19
Rank: 3
1915 - 2014
HPI: 62.26
Rank: 4
1928 - 2018
HPI: 59.58
Rank: 5
1937 - Present
HPI: 59.11
Rank: 6
1941 - Present
HPI: 55.42
Rank: 7
1947 - Present
HPI: 52.32
Rank: 8
1840 - 1910
HPI: 50.28
Rank: 9
1953 - Present
HPI: 50.13
Rank: 10
1941 - Present
HPI: 50.09
Rank: 11
1940 - Present
HPI: 48.84
Rank: 12