1881 - 1955
Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown, FBA (born Alfred Reginald Brown; 17 January 1881 – 24 October 1955) was an English social anthropologist who developed the theory of structural functionalism and coadaptation. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alfred Radcliffe-Brown has received more than 322,364 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia. Alfred Radcliffe-Brown is the 12th most popular anthropologist (up from 14th in 2019), the 675th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 760th 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 12 out of 69. Before him are Jane Goodall, Clifford Geertz, Lewis H. Morgan, Ruth Benedict, Paul Broca, and Gregory Bateson. After him are A. L. Kroeber, Eugène Dubois, Edward T. Hall, E. E. Evans-Pritchard, Knud Rasmussen, and Mary Douglas.
1934 - Present
HPI: 75.70
Rank: 6
1926 - 2006
HPI: 74.07
Rank: 7
1818 - 1881
HPI: 73.98
Rank: 8
1887 - 1948
HPI: 73.78
Rank: 9
1824 - 1880
HPI: 73.74
Rank: 10
1904 - 1980
HPI: 73.18
Rank: 11
1881 - 1955
HPI: 70.98
Rank: 12
1876 - 1960
HPI: 70.44
Rank: 13
1858 - 1940
HPI: 69.94
Rank: 14
1914 - 2009
HPI: 69.17
Rank: 15
1902 - 1973
HPI: 69.08
Rank: 16
1879 - 1933
HPI: 68.96
Rank: 17
1921 - 2007
HPI: 68.47
Rank: 18
Among people born in 1881, Alfred Radcliffe-Brown ranks 39. Before him are Natalia Goncharova, Władysław Sikorski, Asta Nielsen, Walter Rudolf Hess, Theodore von Kármán, and Otto Wille Kuusinen. After him are Sveinn Björnsson, Ivan Ribar, Otto Bauer, Carlo Carrà, Emil Ludwig, and Nikolai Myaskovsky. Among people deceased in 1955, Alfred Radcliffe-Brown ranks 26. Before him are Carmen Miranda, Hermann Weyl, Vasily Blokhin, Pak Hon-yong, Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria, and James B. Sumner. After him are Oswald Avery, Michael Chekhov, Mammad Amin Rasulzadeh, Leonid Govorov, Yves Tanguy, and Cordell Hull.
1881 - 1962
HPI: 72.61
Rank: 33
1881 - 1943
HPI: 72.47
Rank: 34
1881 - 1972
HPI: 72.44
Rank: 35
1881 - 1973
HPI: 72.43
Rank: 36
1881 - 1963
HPI: 71.59
Rank: 37
1881 - 1964
HPI: 71.30
Rank: 38
1881 - 1955
HPI: 70.98
Rank: 39
1881 - 1952
HPI: 70.93
Rank: 40
1881 - 1968
HPI: 70.66
Rank: 41
1881 - 1938
HPI: 70.55
Rank: 42
1881 - 1966
HPI: 70.10
Rank: 43
1881 - 1948
HPI: 70.07
Rank: 44
1881 - 1950
HPI: 69.80
Rank: 45
1909 - 1955
HPI: 72.12
Rank: 20
1885 - 1955
HPI: 71.85
Rank: 21
1895 - 1955
HPI: 71.46
Rank: 22
1900 - 1955
HPI: 71.30
Rank: 23
1869 - 1955
HPI: 71.13
Rank: 24
1887 - 1955
HPI: 71.05
Rank: 25
1881 - 1955
HPI: 70.98
Rank: 26
1877 - 1955
HPI: 70.54
Rank: 27
1891 - 1955
HPI: 70.39
Rank: 28
1884 - 1955
HPI: 70.08
Rank: 29
1897 - 1955
HPI: 69.86
Rank: 30
1900 - 1955
HPI: 69.56
Rank: 31
1871 - 1955
HPI: 69.28
Rank: 32
Among people born in United Kingdom, Alfred Radcliffe-Brown ranks 675 out of 6,924. Before him are Ramsay MacDonald (1866), Sawney Bean (1600), John Balliol (1249), Bruce Chatwin (1940), George Boleyn, 2nd Viscount Rochford (1504), and Harry Kroto (1939). After him are Christian Bale (1974), Roger Glover (1945), Nigel Farage (1964), Peter Greenaway (1942), Oliver Heaviside (1850), and William Hyde Wollaston (1766).
1866 - 1937
HPI: 71.05
Rank: 669
1600 - 1600
HPI: 71.05
Rank: 670
1249 - 1314
HPI: 71.04
Rank: 671
1940 - 1989
HPI: 71.03
Rank: 672
1504 - 1536
HPI: 71.02
Rank: 673
1939 - 2016
HPI: 70.99
Rank: 674
1881 - 1955
HPI: 70.98
Rank: 675
1974 - Present
HPI: 70.98
Rank: 676
1945 - Present
HPI: 70.97
Rank: 677
1964 - Present
HPI: 70.96
Rank: 678
1942 - Present
HPI: 70.95
Rank: 679
1850 - 1925
HPI: 70.94
Rank: 680
1766 - 1828
HPI: 70.94
Rank: 681
Among anthropologists born in United Kingdom, Alfred Radcliffe-Brown ranks 5. Before him are James George Frazer (1854), Edward Burnett Tylor (1832), 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).
1854 - 1941
HPI: 77.29
Rank: 1
1832 - 1917
HPI: 76.93
Rank: 2
1934 - Present
HPI: 75.70
Rank: 3
1904 - 1980
HPI: 73.18
Rank: 4
1881 - 1955
HPI: 70.98
Rank: 5
1902 - 1973
HPI: 69.08
Rank: 6
1920 - 1983
HPI: 68.16
Rank: 7
1913 - 1996
HPI: 65.91
Rank: 8
1910 - 1989
HPI: 61.22
Rank: 9
1905 - 1999
HPI: 58.95
Rank: 10
1808 - 1865
HPI: 58.41
Rank: 11
1973 - Present
HPI: 40.73
Rank: 12