The Most Famous
ANTHROPOLOGISTS from Netherlands
This page contains a list of the greatest Dutch Anthropologists. The pantheon dataset contains 69 Anthropologists, 1 of which were born in Netherlands. This makes Netherlands the birth place of the 12th most number of Anthropologists behind Czechia and Belgium.
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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Dutch Anthropologists of all time. This list of famous Dutch Anthropologists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Eugène Dubois (1858 - 1940)
With an HPI of 61.52, Eugène Dubois is the most famous Dutch Anthropologist. His biography has been translated into 33 different languages on wikipedia.
Marie Eugène François Thomas Dubois (French: [øʒɛn dybwɑ]; 28 January 1858 – 16 December 1940) was a Dutch paleoanthropologist and geologist. He earned worldwide fame for his discovery of Pithecanthropus erectus (later redesignated Homo erectus), or "Java Man". Although hominid fossils had been found and studied before, Dubois was the first anthropologist to embark upon a purposeful search for them.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as anthropologists born between 1858 and 1858. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased anthropologists include Eugène Dubois.
