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Daniel Jones

1881 - 1967

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Daniel Jones (12 September 1881 – 4 December 1967) was a British phonetician who studied under Paul Passy, professor of phonetics at the École des Hautes Études at the Sorbonne (University of Paris). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Daniel Jones has received more than 95,610 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Daniel Jones is the 107th most popular linguist (up from 117th in 2019), the 2,528th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,674th in 2019) and the 5th most popular British Linguist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 96k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.12

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.37

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.33

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Daniel Jones ranks 107 out of 214. Before him are Yuen Ren Chao, Đuro Daničić, Teun A. van Dijk, Joan Coromines, Matteo Bartoli, and Igor M. Diakonoff. After him are Heinrich Hübschmann, Nakahama Manjirō, Georg Curtius, Kunio Yanagita, Renato Corsetti, and John Florio.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, Daniel Jones ranks 126. Before him are Curt Haase, Karl Staaf, Móric Esterházy, Zhang Zongchang, Marcello Piacentini, and Rudolf Ramek. After him are Princess Dorothea of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Ludwik Rajchman, Gaston Gallimard, Max Weber, Henry Maitland Wilson, and Ludwig Kaas. Among people deceased in 1967, Daniel Jones ranks 152. Before him are Charles Bickford, Evelyn Nesbit, Ram Manohar Lohia, Otto Erich Deutsch, Fernando Paternoster, and Alberto Bayo. After him are Princess Dorothea of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Carl Schuricht, Siegfried Sassoon, Milán Füst, Gigi Meroni, and Gideon Ståhlberg.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Daniel Jones ranks 2,528 out of 8,785. Before him are Tommy Lawrence (1940), Minnie Driver (1970), Divina Galica (1944), Jane Asher (1946), Leonard Hobhouse (1864), and Henri Alleg (1921). After him are J. M. E. McTaggart (1866), Henry Taylor (1885), J. Stuart Blackton (1875), Harry Seeley (1839), Hugh Despenser the younger (1287), and Ebenezer Cobb Morley (1831).

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Among LINGUISTS In United Kingdom

Among linguists born in United Kingdom, Daniel Jones ranks 5. Before him are William Jones (1746), Robert Morrison (1782), John Chadwick (1920), and Michael Halliday (1925). After him are John Florio (1553), James Legge (1815), Brian Houghton Hodgson (1800), John Lyons (1932), Henry Liddell (1811), Jane Ellen Harrison (1850), and John Rupert Firth (1890).

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