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The Most Famous

ARCHAEOLOGISTS from Portugal

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This page contains a list of the greatest Portuguese Archaeologists. The pantheon dataset contains 104 Archaeologists, 1 of which were born in Portugal. This makes Portugal the birth place of the 28th most number of Archaeologists behind Croatia and Norway.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Portuguese Archaeologists of all time. This list of famous Portuguese Archaeologists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. José Leite de Vasconcelos (1858 - 1941)

With an HPI of 45.34, José Leite de Vasconcelos is the most famous Portuguese Archaeologist.  His biography has been translated into 15 different languages on wikipedia.

José Leite de Vasconcelos Cardoso Pereira de Melo (7 July 1858 – 17 May 1941), known as simply Leite de Vasconcelos, was a Portuguese ethnographer, archaeologist and prolific author who wrote extensively on Portuguese philology and prehistory. He was the founder and the first director of the Portuguese National Museum of Archaeology.

Pantheon has 1 people classified as archaeologists born between 1858 and 1858. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased archaeologists include José Leite de Vasconcelos.

Deceased Archaeologists

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