The Most Famous
ANTHROPOLOGISTS from Kenya
This page contains a list of the greatest Kenyan Anthropologists. The pantheon dataset contains 69 Anthropologists, 1 of which were born in Kenya. This makes Kenya the birth place of the 14th most number of Anthropologists behind Netherlands and Greenland.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Kenyan Anthropologists of all time. This list of famous Kenyan Anthropologists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Richard Leakey (1944 - 2022)
With an HPI of 56.96, Richard Leakey is the most famous Kenyan Anthropologist. His biography has been translated into 37 different languages on wikipedia.
Richard Erskine Frere Leakey (19 December 1944 – 2 January 2022) was a Kenyan paleoanthropologist, conservationist and politician. Leakey held a number of official positions in Kenya, mostly in institutions of archaeology and wildlife conservation. He was Director of the National Museum of Kenya, founded the NGO WildlifeDirect, and was the chairman of the Kenya Wildlife Service. Leakey served in the powerful office of cabinet secretary and head of public service during the tail end of President Daniel Toroitich Arap Moi's government Leakey co-founded the "Turkana Basin Institute" in an academic partnership with Stony Brook University, where he was an anthropology professor. He served as the chair of the Turkana Basin Institute until his death.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as anthropologists born between 1944 and 1944. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased anthropologists include Richard Leakey.
