Occupation
LAWYERS
With 68 biographies, Lawyers are the 73rd most common occupation in Pantheon, behind Baseball Players, Anthropologists, and Cricketers.
Pantheon has 81 people classified as lawyers born between 300 BC and 1982. Of these 81, 26 (32.10%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living lawyers include Carla Del Ponte, Alan Dershowitz, and Adrian Năstase. The most famous deceased lawyers include Hugo Grotius, Al-Shafi‘i, and Charles Albert Gobat. As of April 2022, 13 new lawyers have been added to Pantheon including Al-Qurtubi, Hisashi Owada, and Lucius Cincius Alimentus.
Living Lawyers
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Carla Del Ponte
1947 - Present
HPI: 59.33
Alan Dershowitz
1938 - Present
HPI: 52.35
Adrian Năstase
1950 - Present
HPI: 51.01
Hisashi Owada
1932 - Present
HPI: 50.78
Navi Pillay
1941 - Present
HPI: 50.27
Lawrence Lessig
1961 - Present
HPI: 48.55
Koen Lenaerts
1954 - Present
HPI: 48.45
Louise Arbour
1947 - Present
HPI: 44.81
Michael Cohen
1966 - Present
HPI: 44.59
Christopher A. Wray
1966 - Present
HPI: 43.95
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw
1959 - Present
HPI: 41.28
Richard Wagner
1957 - Present
HPI: 40.41
Deceased Lawyers
Go to all RankingsHugo Grotius
1583 - 1645
HPI: 77.44
Al-Shafi‘i
767 - 820
HPI: 75.30
Charles Albert Gobat
1843 - 1914
HPI: 71.32
Ulpian
170 - 228
HPI: 70.60
J. Edgar Hoover
1895 - 1972
HPI: 70.52
Carlo Buonaparte
1746 - 1785
HPI: 70.36
Gaius
120 - 180
HPI: 68.93
Louis Renault
1843 - 1918
HPI: 68.61
Henri La Fontaine
1854 - 1943
HPI: 68.35
Al-Nawawi
1233 - 1278
HPI: 67.79
Aemilius Papinianus
142 - 211
HPI: 66.49
Tobias Asser
1838 - 1913
HPI: 65.75
Newly Added Lawyers (2022)
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Al-Qurtubi
1214 - 1273
HPI: 60.01
Hisashi Owada
1932 - Present
HPI: 50.78
Lucius Cincius Alimentus
300 BC - Present
HPI: 49.88
Koen Lenaerts
1954 - Present
HPI: 48.45
Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem
1916 - 1997
HPI: 45.96
Richard Wagner
1957 - Present
HPI: 40.41
Dario Franceschini
1958 - Present
HPI: 40.33
Seyran Ateş
1963 - Present
HPI: 38.10
Thelma Aldana
1955 - Present
HPI: 37.41
Dipak Misra
1953 - Present
HPI: 33.56
Nargiz Birk-Petersen
1976 - Present
HPI: 32.33
Shadi Sadr
1974 - Present
HPI: 29.52
Most lawyers were born in United States (23), United Kingdom (6), and Germany (4). By city, the most common birth places were New York City (4), London (3), and Washington, D.C. (2).The most common death places of lawyers were United States (15), Germany (9), and Italy (5). By city, these were Washington, D.C. (3), Rome (2), and New York City (2).
The earliest biographies classified as lawyers in Pantheon are Aemilius Papinianus, Gaius, and Lucius Cincius Alimentus. The concentration of lawyers was largest during the Television Era, which lasted from 1950 to 1989. Some birth or death locations for earlier lawyers are unknown, which may account for timeline differences below.
Which Lawyers were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 25 most globally memorable Lawyers since 1700.
Lawyers are found within the Business & Law domain which also includes Businesspeople and Producers.
