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Eileen Gray

1878 - 1976

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Eileen Gray (born Kathleen Eileen Moray Smith; 9 August 1878 – 31 October 1976) was an Irish architect with no formal training and furniture designer who became a pioneer of the Modern Movement in architecture. Over her career, she was associated with many notable European artists of her era, including Kathleen Scott, Adrienne Gorska, Le Corbusier, and Jean Badovici, with whom she was romantically involved. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eileen Gray has received more than 534,412 page views. Her biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Eileen Gray is the 115th most popular architect (down from 103rd in 2019), the 47th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 38th in 2019) and the most popular Irish Architect.

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  • 60.70

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.23

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.22

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Eileen Gray ranks 115 out of 518. Before her are Lúcio Costa, Albert Speer, Hans Hollein, Philip Johnson, Francesco di Giorgio Martini, and Baldassare Longhena. After her are Theophil Hansen, Hemiunu, Carl Gotthard Langhans, Toyo Ito, Peter Eisenman, and Leo von Klenze.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Eileen Gray ranks 32. Before her are George Whipple, Marcel Grossmann, Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz, Arthur Scherbius, Yosano Akiko, and Carlos Saavedra Lamas. After her are Yakov Yurovsky, Sadriddin Ayni, Jan Łukasiewicz, Kōki Hirota, Clemens August Graf von Galen, and P. D. Ouspensky. Among people deceased in 1976, Eileen Gray ranks 49. Before her are David Elazar, Yonatan Netanyahu, João Goulart, Kazi Nazrul Islam, George Whipple, and George Ostrogorsky. After her are Phil Ochs, Carlo Gambino, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Carol Reed, Ivan Yakubovsky, and Silvana Armenulić.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Eileen Gray ranks 47 out of 549. Before her are Bob Geldof (1951), Columba (521), Harald Gille (1103), Ethel Voynich (1864), Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener (1850), and Saint Gall (550). After her are John Toland (1670), John Tyndall (1820), Edward England (1685), Dolores O'Riordan (1971), David Kelly (1929), and William C. Campbell (1930).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Ireland

Among architects born in Ireland, Eileen Gray ranks 1. After her are James Hoban (1762), Kevin Roche (1922), Yvonne Farrell (1951), and Shelley McNamara (1952).

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