George Frost Kennan was an American diplomat and historian. He was best known as an advocate of a policy of containment of Soviet expansion during the Cold War. He lectured widely and wrote scholarly histories of the relations between the USSR and the United States. He was also one of the group of foreign policy elders known as "The Wise Men".
- Occupation
- diplomat, historian, geopolitical analyst, political scientist
- Position held
- United States Ambassador to Yugoslavia, United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union, ambassador
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- February 16, 1904
