DIPLOMAT

Wendy Sherman

1949 - Today

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Wendy Ruth Sherman (born June 7, 1949) is an American diplomat who served as the United States deputy secretary of state from April 2021 to July 2023. She was a professor of the practice of public leadership and director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School, a senior counselor at Albright Stonebridge Group, and a senior fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Sherman, a social worker, served as the director of EMILY's List, the director of Maryland's office of child welfare, and the founding president of the Fannie Mae Foundation. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wendy Sherman has received more than 1,084,973 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Wendy Sherman is the 77th most popular diplomat, the 9,095th most popular biography from United States and the 17th most popular American Diplomat.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.21

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.79

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.84

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among DIPLOMATS

Among diplomats, Wendy Sherman ranks 77 out of 90Before her are Richard Armitage, Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz, Jacques Diouf, Ri Yong-ho, Vasily Nebenzya, and Alessandro Minuto-Rizzo. After her are Adolph Dubs, Peter Maurer, Sumner Welles, Janez Lenarčič, Zhao Lijian, and Haya Rashed Al-Khalifa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Wendy Sherman ranks 561Before her are Serhiy Novikov, Aleksandar Tomov, Erwin Kremers, Per Røntved, Micky Arison, and Sunil Gavaskar. After her are Zbigniew Gut, Paul Manafort, Tommy Lee Wallace, Dan Ar Braz, Boris Plotnikov, and Marc Garneau.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Wendy Sherman ranks 9,095 out of 20,380Before her are Gregory Sierra (1937), Howard Deutch (1950), Bill Berry (1958), Luke Askew (1932), Charles Clary (1873), and Dorothy Janis (1912). After her are Ann Bannon (1932), Robin Beck (1954), Carol Shields (1935), Adriano Directo Emperado (1926), Faye Grant (1957), and Albert Salmi (1928).

Among DIPLOMATS In United States

Among diplomats born in United States, Wendy Sherman ranks 17Before her are Victoria Nuland (1961), Adlai Stevenson II (1900), Joseph Grew (1880), Edward M. House (1858), J. Christopher Stevens (1960), and Richard Armitage (1945). After her are Adolph Dubs (1920), Sumner Welles (1892), Thomas A. Shannon Jr. (1958), and Barbara Barrett (1950).