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List of the most notable and famous Editors in Chief in the world, with photos when available. Most prominent Editors in Chief worldwide and top Editors in Chief in America can be found on this list ordered by their level of prominence,. From reputable Editors in Chief to the lesser known Editors in Chief in history and today, these are the top Editors in Chief in their field, and should answer the question "who are the most famous Editors in Chief in the world?". The list you're viewing contains people like Adam Garfinkle and William Ng. You may want to copy this factual list to build your own just like it, re-rank it to fit your views, then publish it to share with your Facebook friends, Twitter followers or with any other social networks you're on. (64 Items)

Julian Assange is listed (or ranked) 1 on the list List of Famous Editors in Chief
Julian Paul Assange is an Australian publisher and journalist. He is known as the editor-in-chief of the website WikiLeaks, which he co-founded in 2006 after an earlier career in hacking and ...more

Robin Morgan is listed (or ranked) 2 on the list List of Famous Editors in Chief
Robin Morgan is an American poet, author, political theorist and activist, journalist, lecturer, and former child actor. Since the early 1960s she has been a key radical feminist member of the ...more

Michael Shermer is listed (or ranked) 3 on the list List of Famous Editors in Chief
Michael Brant Shermer is an American science writer, historian of science, founder of The Skeptics Society, and Editor in Chief of its magazine Skeptic, which is largely devoted to investigating ...more

Russ Kick is listed (or ranked) 4 on the list List of Famous Editors in Chief
Russ Kick Russ Kick is an American writer, editor, and publisher. He was the founder and editor of the website The Memory Hole, which published and archived U.S. government documents, including scientific ...more

Kris Aquino is listed (or ranked) 5 on the list List of Famous Editors in Chief
Kristina Bernadette Cojuangco Aquino, professionally known as Kris Aquino, is a Filipina television personality and actress who gained prominence from her talk shows, game shows, and numerous ...more

Adras LaBorde is listed (or ranked) 6 on the list List of Famous Editors in Chief
Adras Paul LaBorde, I, was a reporter, managing editor, and columnist for the Alexandria Daily Town Talk, the largest newspaper in Central Louisiana. His career stretched from the mid-1940s into ...more

Jon Meacham is listed (or ranked) 7 on the list List of Famous Editors in Chief
Jon Ellis Meacham is executive editor and executive vice president at Random House. He is a former editor-in-chief of Newsweek, a contributing editor to Time Magazine, editor-at-large of WNET, ...more

S. T. Joshi is listed (or ranked) 8 on the list List of Famous Editors in Chief
Sunand Tryambak Joshi, known as S. T. Joshi, is an Indian American literary critic, novelist, and a leading figure in the study of H. P. Lovecraft and other authors of weird and fantastic ...more

George William Russell is listed (or ranked) 9 on the list List of Famous Editors in Chief
George William Russell who wrote with the pseudonym Æ, was an Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, artistic painter and Irish nationalist. He was also a mysticism writer, and a personage of ...more

Amy Sohn is listed (or ranked) 10 on the list List of Famous Editors in Chief
Amy Sohn is a Brooklyn-based author, columnist and screenwriter. Her first two novels were Run Catch Kiss and My Old Man, both published by Simon & Schuster, and a companion guide to ...more

Ned Touchstone is listed (or ranked) 11 on the list List of Famous Editors in Chief
Ned O'Neal Touchstone was a newspaper publisher who was a figure in the "Radical Right" in Louisiana politics during the 1960s. He was born in the village of Florien in Sabine Parish ...more

John Greenleaf Whittier is listed (or ranked) 12 on the list List of Famous Editors in Chief
John Greenleaf Whittier was an American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States. Frequently listed as one of the Fireside Poets, Whittier was influenced by the ...more

David Levithan is listed (or ranked) 13 on the list List of Famous Editors in Chief
David Levithan is an American young-adult fiction author and editor. His first book, Boy Meets Boy, was published by Knopf Books for Young Readers in 2003. He has written numerous works ...more

Adam Mokan is listed (or ranked) 14 on the list List of Famous Editors in Chief

Harold Evans is listed (or ranked) 15 on the list List of Famous Editors in Chief
Sir Harold Matthew Evans is a British-born journalist and writer who was editor of The Sunday Times from 1967 to 1981. In 1984 he moved to the United States, where he had leading positions in ...more

Glenn A. Baker is listed (or ranked) 16 on the list List of Famous Editors in Chief
Glenn A. Baker is an Australian journalist, commentator, and broadcaster well known in Australia for his vast knowledge of Rock music. He has written books and magazine articles on rock music ...more

Al Hunt is listed (or ranked) 17 on the list List of Famous Editors in Chief
Albert Reinold "Al" Hunt, Jr. is an American columnist for Bloomberg View, the editorial arm of Bloomberg News. Hunt hosts the Sunday morning talk show Political Capital on Bloomberg ...more

Cynthia May Alden is listed (or ranked) 18 on the list List of Famous Editors in Chief
Cynthia May Westover Alden, commonly known as Cynthia W. Alden, was an American journalist, author and New York municipal employee.

Louis Untermeyer is listed (or ranked) 19 on the list List of Famous Editors in Chief
Louis Untermeyer was an American poet, anthologist, critic, and editor. He was appointed the fourteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1961.

Erick Wujcik is listed (or ranked) 20 on the list List of Famous Editors in Chief
Erick A. Wujcik was an American designer of both pen-and-paper and computer role-playing games, and co-founder of Palladium Books.

Barbara Jane Reyes is listed (or ranked) 21 on the list List of Famous Editors in Chief
Barbara Jane Reyes is an American poet whose work "explores the translatable and untranslatable collisions of writing, self and culture." She was born in Manila, Philippines and raised ...more

Bill Deedes is listed (or ranked) 22 on the list List of Famous Editors in Chief
William Francis "Bill" Deedes, Baron Deedes, KBE, MC, PC, DL was a British Conservative Party politician, army officer and journalist; he is to date the only person in Britain to have ...more

Bruno Maddox is listed (or ranked) 23 on the list List of Famous Editors in Chief
Bruno P. Maddox is a British literary novelist and journalist who is best known for his critically lauded novel My Little Blue Dress and for his satirical magazine essays. After graduating from ...more

Woody Jenkins is listed (or ranked) 24 on the list List of Famous Editors in Chief
Louis Elwood Jenkins, Jr., known as Woody Jenkins, is a newspaper editor in Baton Rouge and Central City, Louisiana, who served as a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1972 to ...more

John D. Ewing is listed (or ranked) 25 on the list List of Famous Editors in Chief
John Dunbrack Ewing, Sr., was a Louisiana journalist who served as editor and publisher of both the Shreveport Times and the Monroe News-Star-World from 1931 until his death. He was also ...more

Harold L. Humes is listed (or ranked) 26 on the list List of Famous Editors in Chief
Harold Louis Humes, Jr. was known as HL Humes in his books, and usually as "Doc" Humes in life. He was the originator of The Paris Review literary magazine, author of two novels in the ...more

John Robert Colombo is listed (or ranked) 27 on the list List of Famous Editors in Chief
John Robert Colombo, CM is a Canadian author, editor, and poet. He has published over 200 titles, including major anthologies and reference works.

Maxine Chernoff is listed (or ranked) 28 on the list List of Famous Editors in Chief
Maxine Chernoff is an American novelist, writer, poet, academic and literary magazine editor. She was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, and attended the University of Illinois at Chicago. ...more

Graciano López Jaena is listed (or ranked) 29 on the list List of Famous Editors in Chief
Graciano López Jaena was a journalist, orator, revolutionary, and national hero from Iloilo, the Philippines, who is well known for his newspaper, La Solidaridad. Philippine historians ...more

Robert Stacy McCain is listed (or ranked) 30 on the list List of Famous Editors in Chief
Robert Stacy McCain is an American conservative journalist, writer, and blogger. McCain is a former assistant national editor and reporter for The Washington Times and co-author of the 2006 book ...more

Gilbert Hitchcock is listed (or ranked) 31 on the list List of Famous Editors in Chief
Gilbert Monell Hitchcock was a Representative and a Senator from Nebraska, and the founder of the Omaha World-Herald.

Andreas Paraschos is listed (or ranked) 32 on the list List of Famous Editors in Chief
Andreas Paraschos is the editor-in-chief of Kathimerini, a daily morning newspaper published in Athens. Born in Larnaca, Paraschos spent the first years of childhood in a very turbulent period ...more

Sonu Shamdasani is listed (or ranked) 33 on the list List of Famous Editors in Chief
Sonu Shamdasani is a London-based author, editor, and professor at the UCL Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London. His works are on the history of psychiatry and ...more

Barbara Quint is listed (or ranked) 34 on the list List of Famous Editors in Chief

Adam Garfinkle is listed (or ranked) 35 on the list List of Famous Editors in Chief
Adam M. Garfinkle is the editor of The American Interest, a bimonthly public policy magazine. He was previously editor of another such publication, The National Interest. He has been a ...more

Robert Ewing is listed (or ranked) 36 on the list List of Famous Editors in Chief
Robert Wilson Ewing, I, also known as Colonel Ewing, was a prominent newspaper journalist, editor, and publisher and political figure, primarily in Louisiana, in the last two decades of the 19th ...more

Rebekah Brooks is listed (or ranked) 37 on the list List of Famous Editors in Chief
Rebekah Mary Brooks is an English journalist and former newspaper editor. She was chief executive officer of News International from 2009 to 2011, having previously served as the youngest editor ...more

Andy Coulson is listed (or ranked) 38 on the list List of Famous Editors in Chief
Andrew Edward Coulson is an English journalist and political strategist. In June 2014 he was found guilty of conspiracy to intercept voicemails. He was sentenced on 4 July 2014 to 18 months in ...more

Homen Borgohain is listed (or ranked) 39 on the list List of Famous Editors in Chief
Homen Borgohain is an Indian writer, poet, critic, Columnist and Editor in the Assamese language. He was awarded the 1978 Sahitya Akademi Award in Assamese language for his novel, Pita Putra. ...more

Lani Ka'ahumanu is listed (or ranked) 40 on the list List of Famous Editors in Chief
Lani Ka'ahumanu is a bisexual and feminist writer and activist. She is openly bisexual and writes and speaks on sexuality issues frequently. She serves on the editorial board of the Journal of ...more

Quincy Howe is listed (or ranked) 41 on the list List of Famous Editors in Chief
Quincy Howe was an American journalist, best known for his CBS radio broadcasts during World War II. He was the son of Mark Anthony De Wolfe Howe. Howe served as director of the American Civil ...more

Margaret Caroline Anderson is listed (or ranked) 42 on the list List of Famous Editors in Chief
Margaret Caroline Anderson was the American founder, editor and publisher of the art and literary magazine The Little Review, which published a collection of modern American, English and Irish ...more

Rain Graves is listed (or ranked) 43 on the list List of Famous Editors in Chief
Rain Graves is an award winning author of horror, fantasy, science fiction and poetry. She is also a noted Wine Poet, commissioned and featured by winemakers and wineries, and the Creator and ...more

Clifford May is listed (or ranked) 44 on the list List of Famous Editors in Chief
Clifford D. May is an American journalist, editor, and political activist. He is the president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a conservative policy institute created shortly after ...more

Khin Myo Chit is listed (or ranked) 45 on the list List of Famous Editors in Chief
Khin Myo Chit was a Burmese author and journalist, whose career spanned over four decades. She began her career writing short stories in Burmese for Dagon Magazine in 1934. She worked on the ...more

David Talbot is listed (or ranked) 46 on the list List of Famous Editors in Chief
David Talbot is an American progressive journalist, author and media entrepreneur. He is the founder and former CEO and editor-in-chief of one of the first web magazines, Salon.com. Talbot ...more

James Lowder is listed (or ranked) 47 on the list List of Famous Editors in Chief
James Lowder James Daniel Lowder is an American author and editor, working frequently within the fantasy, dark fantasy, and horror genres, and on critical works exploring popular culture.

David Pringle is listed (or ranked) 48 on the list List of Famous Editors in Chief
David Pringle is a Scottish science fiction editor. Pringle served as the editor of Foundation, an academic journal, from 1980 through 1986, during which time he became one of the prime movers ...more

Loraine Hutchins is listed (or ranked) 49 on the list List of Famous Editors in Chief
Loraine Hutchins is an American bisexual and feminist author, activist, and sex educator. Hutchins rose to prominence as co-editor of Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out, an anthology ...more

Gary Rosenblatt is listed (or ranked) 50 on the list List of Famous Editors in Chief
Gary Rosenblatt is the editor and publisher of The Jewish Week of New York, a position he has held since 1993. Previously he was the editor of the Baltimore Jewish Times for 19 years.