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Drew Gilpin Faust

1947 - Today

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Catharine Drew Gilpin Faust (born September 18, 1947) is an American historian who served as the 28th president of Harvard University, the first woman in that role. She was Harvard's first president since 1672 without an undergraduate or graduate degree from Harvard and the first to have been raised in the South. Faust is also the founding dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She has been ranked among the world's most powerful women by Forbes, including as the 33rd most powerful in 2014. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Drew Gilpin Faust is the 447th most popular historian (up from 514th in 2019), the 7,890th most popular biography from United States (up from 9,778th in 2019) and the 31st most popular American Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Drew Gilpin Faust ranks 447 out of 561. Before her are Carl Benjamin Boyer, Ekvtime Takaishvili, Mikheil Tsereteli, Nikolaus Pevsner, Donald Nicol, and Avi Shlaim. After her are Martin Gilbert, John King Fairbank, Martin Noth, Américo Castro, Girolamo Mei, and Hermann Oldenberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Drew Gilpin Faust ranks 573. Before her are Siegmar Wätzlich, Flavio Bucci, Shelley Hack, Jan Henne, Lev Rokhlin, and Roberto Mangabeira Unger. After her are Ian Scheckter, Barbara Cassin, Alberto Bigon, Abdulhashim Mutalov, Firmine Richard, and Andrea Martin.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Drew Gilpin Faust ranks 7,892 out of 20,380. Before her are William Lombardy (1937), Marcus Hurley (1883), Kendra Wilkinson (1985), Robben Ford (1951), Larry O'Brien (1917), and Jamey Sheridan (1951). After her are Al St. John (1892), Peter Pace (1945), Oscar Pettiford (1922), Yokozuna (1966), Julian Jaynes (1920), and Catherine Oxenberg (1961).

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Among HISTORIANS In United States

Among historians born in United States, Drew Gilpin Faust ranks 31. Before her are Stephen Greenblatt (1943), Mary Ritter Beard (1876), Stephen E. Ambrose (1936), Daniel J. Boorstin (1914), Charles A. Beard (1874), and Carl Benjamin Boyer (1906). After her are John King Fairbank (1907), Charles Homer Haskins (1870), Robert Jay Lifton (1926), Lothrop Stoddard (1883), Stephen F. Cohen (1938), and Samuel Eliot Morison (1887).

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