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Ronald Lauder
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American businessman, art collector, philanthropist, political activist
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 14
Top works
- Privatization for New York
- Honey Cake and Latkes
- Franz Marc and August Macke
- Austrian and German Masterworks
- Wiener Werkstätte jewelry
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Learning representations by back-propagating errors
· 1986 · cited 24,348x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,612x
- The american rheumatism association 1987 revised criteria for the classification of rheumatoid arthritis
· 1988 · cited 15,808x
- Lifetime Prevalence and Age-of-Onset Distributions of DSM-IV Disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication
· 2005 · cited 15,578x
- An automated labeling system for subdividing the human cerebral cortex on MRI scans into gyral based regions of interest
· 2006 · cited 13,000x
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Key facts
- Preceded by
- Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
- President
- Ronald Reagan
- Succeeded by
- Henry Anatole Grunwald
- Born
- Ronald Steven Lauder , ( 1944-02-26 ) February 26, 1944 (age 82) , New York City , U.S.
- Party
- Republican
- Spouse
- Jo Carole Knopf
- Children
- Aerin Lauder Zinterhofer , Jane Lauder Warsh
- Parent
- Estée Lauder (mother)
- Relatives
- Leonard Lauder (brother), William P. Lauder (nephew)
- Education
- University of Pennsylvania ( BS ), University of Paris , University of Brussels
- Occupation
- Chairman Emeritus of Estée Lauder Companies
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Encyclopedic overview
Ronald Steven Lauder (born February 26, 1944) is an American businessman. He is the sole heir to The Estée Lauder Companies, founded by his parents Estée Lauder and Joseph Lauder in 1946, following the death of his brother Leonard Lauder in 2025.
According to Forbes, Lauder had a net worth of $4.7 billion as of May 2025 (number 796 on Forbes' list of billionaires). Lauder is a longtime Republican Party donor and supporter of Donald Trump. He ran in the Republican primary for mayor of New York City in 1989.
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