ARCHAEOLOGIST

André Leroi-Gourhan

1911 - 1986

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André Leroi-Gourhan (; French: [ləʁwa guʁɑ̃]; 25 August 1911 – 19 February 1986) was a French archaeologist, paleontologist, paleoanthropologist, and anthropologist with an interest in technology and aesthetics and a penchant for philosophical reflection. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of André Leroi-Gourhan has received more than 105,055 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). André Leroi-Gourhan is the 35th most popular archaeologist, the 2,164th most popular biography from France (down from 2,144th in 2019) and the 5th most popular French Archaeologist.

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  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.60

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.96

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, André Leroi-Gourhan ranks 35 out of 151. Before him are Yuri Knorozov, Othniel Charles Marsh, Isdal Woman, Robert Ballard, Wilhelm Dörpfeld, and Hat Hor. After him are George Smith, Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, Gustaf Kossinna, Meritites I, and Neferkare Tereru.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, André Leroi-Gourhan ranks 92. Before him are Teddy Kollek, Danny Kaye, Paul Goodman, Betty Robinson, Karl Frenzel, and Viktor Barna. After him are André Claveau, Hans Woellke, Ishirō Honda, Józef Cyrankiewicz, Alfredo Foni, and Maureen O'Sullivan. Among people deceased in 1986, André Leroi-Gourhan ranks 76. Before him are Sandro Puppo, Elio de Angelis, Cheikh Anta Diop, Alexandre Tansman, Emilio Fernández, and J. Allen Hynek. After him are Aleksandr Akimov, Hermann Gmeiner, John Bagot Glubb, Elsa Lanchester, Thierry Sabine, and Ellison Onizuka.

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In France

Among people born in France, André Leroi-Gourhan ranks 2,164 out of 6,770. Before him are Louis Poinsot (1777), Jean-Baptiste van Loo (1684), Jacques-Nicolas Billaud-Varenne (1756), Augustin Thierry (1795), Catherine Charlotte de Gramont (1639), and Louis I, Count of Blois (1172). After him are Alain Ducasse (1956), Yolande, Duchess of Lorraine (1428), Yannick Noah (1960), André Claveau (1911), Alexandre Brongniart (1770), and Leos Carax (1960).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In France

Among archaeologists born in France, André Leroi-Gourhan ranks 5. Before him are Jean-François Champollion (1790), Austen Henry Layard (1817), Alcide d'Orbigny (1802), and Paul Pelliot (1878). After him are Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes (1788), Henri Breuil (1877), Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet (1821), Victor Loret (1859), Jacques-Joseph Champollion-Figeac (1778), André Parrot (1901), and Pierre Montet (1885).

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