1881 - 1955
Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown, FBA (born Alfred Reginald Brown; 17 January 1881 – 24 October 1955) was an English social anthropologist who helped further develop the theory of structural functionalism. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alfred Radcliffe-Brown has received more than 405,646 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Alfred Radcliffe-Brown is the 14th most popular anthropologist (down from 12th in 2019), the 754th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 675th in 2019) and the 5th most popular British Anthropologist.
Alfred Radcliffe-Brown was a British anthropologist who was most famous for his work on kinship and social organization. He is considered one of the founders of structural-functionalism.
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Among anthropologists, Alfred Radcliffe-Brown ranks 14 out of 69. Before him are Ruth Benedict, Franz Boas, Paul Broca, Clifford Geertz, Gregory Bateson, and Eugène Dubois. After him are E. E. Evans-Pritchard, Knud Rasmussen, A. L. Kroeber, Edward T. Hall, Mary Douglas, and Victor Turner.
1887 - 1948
HPI: 66.41
Rank: 8
1858 - 1942
HPI: 66.39
Rank: 9
1824 - 1880
HPI: 65.72
Rank: 10
1926 - 2006
HPI: 65.53
Rank: 11
1904 - 1980
HPI: 64.94
Rank: 12
1858 - 1940
HPI: 61.52
Rank: 13
1881 - 1955
HPI: 61.52
Rank: 14
1902 - 1973
HPI: 59.52
Rank: 15
1879 - 1933
HPI: 59.51
Rank: 16
1876 - 1960
HPI: 58.52
Rank: 17
1914 - 2009
HPI: 58.32
Rank: 18
1921 - 2007
HPI: 58.32
Rank: 19
1920 - 1983
HPI: 58.05
Rank: 20
Among people born in 1881, Alfred Radcliffe-Brown ranks 43. Before him are Otto Wille Kuusinen, Carlo Carrà, Asta Nielsen, Theodore von Kármán, Ivan Ribar, and Otto Bauer. After him are William Boeing, Emil Ludwig, Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, Ludwig Binswanger, Nikolai Myaskovsky, and Sveinn Björnsson. Among people deceased in 1955, Alfred Radcliffe-Brown ranks 30. Before him are Hermann Weyl, Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria, Pak Hon-yong, John Mott, Cordell Hull, and Leonid Govorov. After him are Mammad Amin Rasulzadeh, Alexander Wienerberger, Michael Chekhov, Mihály Károlyi, Yves Tanguy, and Garegin Nzhdeh.
1881 - 1964
HPI: 63.11
Rank: 37
1881 - 1966
HPI: 62.96
Rank: 38
1881 - 1972
HPI: 62.77
Rank: 39
1881 - 1963
HPI: 62.65
Rank: 40
1881 - 1968
HPI: 61.82
Rank: 41
1881 - 1938
HPI: 61.75
Rank: 42
1881 - 1955
HPI: 61.52
Rank: 43
1881 - 1956
HPI: 61.12
Rank: 44
1881 - 1948
HPI: 60.63
Rank: 45
1881 - 1959
HPI: 60.47
Rank: 46
1881 - 1966
HPI: 60.44
Rank: 47
1881 - 1950
HPI: 60.17
Rank: 48
1881 - 1952
HPI: 60.15
Rank: 49
1885 - 1955
HPI: 63.51
Rank: 24
1869 - 1955
HPI: 63.26
Rank: 25
1900 - 1955
HPI: 62.96
Rank: 26
1865 - 1955
HPI: 62.09
Rank: 27
1871 - 1955
HPI: 61.64
Rank: 28
1897 - 1955
HPI: 61.57
Rank: 29
1881 - 1955
HPI: 61.52
Rank: 30
1884 - 1955
HPI: 61.45
Rank: 31
1891 - 1955
HPI: 61.41
Rank: 32
1891 - 1955
HPI: 61.32
Rank: 33
1875 - 1955
HPI: 61.29
Rank: 34
1900 - 1955
HPI: 61.27
Rank: 35
1886 - 1955
HPI: 60.82
Rank: 36
Among people born in United Kingdom, Alfred Radcliffe-Brown ranks 754 out of 7,765. Before him are Chris Rea (1951), Ben Jonson (1572), David J. Thouless (1934), John Frederic Daniell (1790), Boris Karloff (1887), and Lewis Hamilton (1985). After him are John Balliol (1249), Terence Stamp (1938), George Darwin (1845), Amy Winehouse (1983), John Fowles (1926), and David Coverdale (1951).
1951 - Present
HPI: 61.56
Rank: 748
1572 - 1637
HPI: 61.56
Rank: 749
1934 - 2019
HPI: 61.52
Rank: 750
1790 - 1845
HPI: 61.52
Rank: 751
1887 - 1969
HPI: 61.52
Rank: 752
1985 - Present
HPI: 61.52
Rank: 753
1881 - 1955
HPI: 61.52
Rank: 754
1249 - 1314
HPI: 61.51
Rank: 755
1938 - Present
HPI: 61.49
Rank: 756
1845 - 1912
HPI: 61.49
Rank: 757
1983 - 2011
HPI: 61.47
Rank: 758
1926 - 2005
HPI: 61.46
Rank: 759
1951 - Present
HPI: 61.46
Rank: 760
Among anthropologists born in United Kingdom, Alfred Radcliffe-Brown ranks 5. Before him are Edward Burnett Tylor (1832), James George Frazer (1854), Jane Goodall (1934), and Gregory Bateson (1904). After him are E. E. Evans-Pritchard (1902), Victor Turner (1920), Mary Leakey (1913), Edmund Leach (1910), Ashley Montagu (1905), Hugh Falconer (1808), and Alice Roberts (1973).
1832 - 1917
HPI: 69.65
Rank: 1
1854 - 1941
HPI: 69.50
Rank: 2
1934 - Present
HPI: 68.73
Rank: 3
1904 - 1980
HPI: 64.94
Rank: 4
1881 - 1955
HPI: 61.52
Rank: 5
1902 - 1973
HPI: 59.52
Rank: 6
1920 - 1983
HPI: 58.05
Rank: 7
1913 - 1996
HPI: 57.89
Rank: 8
1910 - 1989
HPI: 49.97
Rank: 9
1905 - 1999
HPI: 46.97
Rank: 10
1808 - 1865
HPI: 42.03
Rank: 11
1973 - Present
HPI: 22.99
Rank: 12