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Frank Gehry

1929 - Today

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Frank Owen Gehry (; né Goldberg; born February 28, 1929) is a Canadian-born American architect and designer. A number of his buildings, including his private residence in Santa Monica, California, have become world-renowned attractions. His works are considered among the most important of contemporary architecture in the 2010 World Architecture Survey, leading Vanity Fair to call him "the most important architect of our age". He is also the designer of the National Dwight D. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frank Gehry has received more than 3,701,967 page views. His biography is available in 64 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 61 in 2019). Frank Gehry is the 24th most popular architect (down from 23rd in 2019), the 10th most popular biography from Canada and the most popular Canadian Architect.

Frank Gehry is most famous for his unique and innovative architecture.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Frank Gehry ranks 24 out of 424. Before him are Khufu, Francesco Borromini, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, Georges-Eugène Haussmann, and Renzo Piano. After him are Otto Wagner, Victor Horta, Adolf Loos, Apollodorus of Damascus, Tadao Ando, and Eugène Viollet-le-Duc.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Frank Gehry ranks 18. Before him are Imre Kertész, Jacques Brel, Hassan II of Morocco, Max von Sydow, Jean Baudrillard, and Yayoi Kusama. After him are Hafizullah Amin, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Christopher Plummer, Irene Papas, Michael Ende, and Sándor Kocsis.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Frank Gehry ranks 10 out of 1,350. Before him are Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874), Donald Sutherland (1935), James Naismith (1861), Justin Trudeau (1971), Erving Goffman (1922), and Jim Carrey (1962). After him are Alice Munro (1931), Marshall McLuhan (1911), Christopher Plummer (1929), James Cameron (1954), Celine Dion (1968), and Frederick Banting (1891).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Canada

Among architects born in Canada, Frank Gehry ranks 1. 

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