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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 3,836,711 page views. His biography is available in 67 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 64 in 2019). Frank Gehry is the 25th most popular architect (down from 23rd in 2019), the 9th most popular biography from Canada (up from 10th in 2019) 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 25 out of 518. Before him are Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, Georges-Eugène Haussmann, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Apollodorus of Damascus, Otto Wagner, and Renzo Piano. After him are Victor Horta, Santiago Calatrava, Henry van de Velde, André Le Nôtre, Adolf Loos, and Karl Friedrich Schinkel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Frank Gehry ranks 19. Before him are Imre Kertész, Irene Papas, Jacques Brel, Yayoi Kusama, Michael Ende, and Jean Baudrillard. After him are Oriana Fallaci, Peter Higgs, Mohamed Al-Fayed, Max von Sydow, Sándor Kocsis, and Christopher Plummer.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Frank Gehry ranks 9 out of 1,622. Before him are Leslie Nielsen (1926), Albert Bandura (1925), Celine Dion (1968), Justin Trudeau (1971), James Cameron (1954), and Donald Sutherland (1935). After him are Erving Goffman (1922), Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874), Alice Munro (1931), Christopher Plummer (1929), Marshall McLuhan (1911), and Margaret Atwood (1939).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Canada

Among architects born in Canada, Frank Gehry ranks 1. 

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