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Fareed Zakaria

1964 - Today

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Fareed Rafiq Zakaria (; born January 20, 1964) is an Indian-born American journalist, political commentator, and author. He is the host of CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS and writes a weekly paid column for The Washington Post. He has been a columnist for Newsweek, editor of Newsweek International, and an editor at large of Time. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia. Fareed Zakaria is the 5,995th most popular writer (up from 6,276th in 2024), the 844th most popular biography from India (up from 887th in 2019) and the 106th most popular Indian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Fareed Zakaria ranks 5,995 out of 7,302. Before him are Guus Kuijer, Leon Kruczkowski, Kazimiera Iłłakowiczówna, Jenna Bush Hager, Benny Andersen, and Christian Kracht. After him are György Bessenyei, Edward Wilmot Blyden, Nella Larsen, Howard Ashman, Vladimir Bogomolov, and Cheikh Hamidou Kane.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1964, Fareed Zakaria ranks 395. Before him are Jakob Hlasek, Noémie Lvovsky, Satoru Mochizuki, Kobi Shabtai, Theresa Randle, and Alexander Volkov. After him are Harry Lennix, Valentina Yegorova, Aleksandr Lapin, Ken Shamrock, Arkady Volozh, and Patrick Warburton.

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In India

Among people born in India, Fareed Zakaria ranks 844 out of 1,861. Before him are Sheila Dikshit (1938), Mirza Tahir Ahmad (1928), Naveen Patnaik (1946), Goutam Ghose (1950), Persis Khambatta (1948), and Monier Monier-Williams (1819). After him are Kalyan Singh (1932), Harold Walden (1887), Madhavrao I (1745), Kashibai (1703), Cyrus Mistry (1968), and Yamini Krishnamurthy (1940).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Fareed Zakaria ranks 106. Before him are Muthuswami Dikshitar (1775), Nirmal Verma (1929), Anita Desai (1937), Cornelia Sorabji (1866), Roshanara Begum (1617), and Ismat Chughtai (1915). After him are Saroo Brierley (1981), Abdullah Yusuf Ali (1872), Nalini Bala Devi (1898), Javed Akhtar (1945), Gurdial Singh (1933), and Buddhadeb Dasgupta (1944).

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