ANTHROPOLOGIST

Birutė Galdikas

1946 - Today

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Birutė Marija Filomena Galdikas or Birutė Mary Galdikas, OC (born 10 May 1946), is a Lithuanian-Canadian anthropologist, primatologist, conservationist, ethologist, and author. She is a professor at Simon Fraser University. In the field of primatology, Galdikas is recognized as a leading authority on orangutans. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Birutė Galdikas has received more than 510,899 page views. Her biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Birutė Galdikas is the 46th most popular anthropologist (down from 34th in 2019), the 3,446th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,657th in 2019) and the 5th most popular German Anthropologist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 510k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.04

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.51

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Birutė Galdikas ranks 46 out of 93. Before her are Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring, Aleš Hrdlička, Louis Dumont, Georges Vacher de Lapouge, Lubor Niederle, and John Lloyd Stephens. After her are Raymond Firth, Bill Mollison, Gilberto Freyre, Alfred Sauvy, Helen Fisher, and Bengt Danielsson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Birutė Galdikas ranks 315. Before her are Vazgen Manukyan, Michel Delpech, Stan Winston, Bernard Maris, Jüri Tarmak, and Ibn Warraq. After her are Carl Wilson, Nicholas Clay, Lesley Ann Warren, Tyne Daly, Nicolau dos Reis Lobato, and María Baxa.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Birutė Galdikas ranks 3,446 out of 7,253. Before her are Oskar Vogt (1870), Reinhard Hardegen (1913), Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Altenburg (1838), Günter Verheugen (1944), Fahriye Evcen (1986), and Karl Ludwig Sand (1795). After her are Otto Gessler (1875), John Albert II (1590), Maurice d'Elbée (1752), Princess Therese of Saxe-Altenburg (1836), Max Jakob Friedländer (1867), and Eric IV, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg (1354).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In Germany

Among anthropologists born in Germany, Birutė Galdikas ranks 5. Before her are Franz Boas (1858), Fredrik Barth (1928), Wilhelm Schmidt (1868), and Jean Malaurie (1922). After her are Johann Carl Fuhlrott (1803), and Adolf Bernhard Meyer (1840).

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