Richard Ravitch (born 1933), an American politician, businessman, and former Lieutenant Governor of New York
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Diane Ravitch (born 1938), a historian of education, educational policy analyst, and professor
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Norman Ravitch, a professor emeritus of history at University of California, Riverside
She has served as a visiting scholar at the Indiana University Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University; special counsel to Richard Ravitch, New York Lieutenant Governor and as counsel to the Task Force on the State Budget Crisis, co-chaired by Ravitch and former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker.