The Most Famous
ANTHROPOLOGISTS from Greenland
This page contains a list of the greatest Anthropologists. The pantheon dataset contains 69 Anthropologists, 1 of which were born in Greenland. This makes Greenland the birth place of the 13th most number of Anthropologists behind Belgium and Netherlands.
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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Anthropologists of all time. This list of famous Anthropologists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Knud Rasmussen (1879 - 1933)
With an HPI of 59.51, Knud Rasmussen is the most famous Anthropologist. His biography has been translated into 30 different languages on wikipedia.
Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen (; 7 June 1879 – 21 December 1933) was a Greenlandic-Danish polar explorer and anthropologist. He has been called the "father of Eskimology" (now often known as Inuit Studies or Greenlandic and Arctic Studies) and was the first European to cross the Northwest Passage via dog sled. He remains well known in Greenland, Denmark and among Canadian Inuit.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as anthropologists born between 1879 and 1879. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased anthropologists include Knud Rasmussen.
