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Frederick Law Olmsted

1822 - 1903

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Frederick Law Olmsted (April 26, 1822 – August 28, 1903) was an American landscape architect, journalist, social critic, and public administrator. He is considered to be the father of landscape architecture in the United States. Olmsted was famous for co-designing many well-known urban parks with his partner Calvert Vaux. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frederick Law Olmsted has received more than 2,163,990 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia. Frederick Law Olmsted is the 345th most popular architect (down from 244th in 2019), the 4,894th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,102nd in 2019) and the 21st most popular American Architect.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Frederick Law Olmsted ranks 345 out of 518. Before him are Heinrich von Ferstel, Giuseppe Valadier, Thomas Telford, Lorenzo Gafà, Georges Candilis, and Girolamo Cassar. After him are Francesco Sabatini, George Bähr, Jakob Prandtauer, László Hudec, Laurynas Gucevičius, and Momik.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1822, Frederick Law Olmsted ranks 54. Before him are Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse, Ahmed Cevdet Pasha, Apollonie Sabatier, Bernhard Hammer, Dmitry Grigorovich, and Luis Sáenz Peña. After him are Alexander Mackenzie, Mathew Brady, August Heinrich Petermann, Willem Roelofs, Peter Michal Bohúň, and Victor Massé. Among people deceased in 1903, Frederick Law Olmsted ranks 53. Before him are Tang Jingsong, Karl Gegenbaur, Auguste Kerckhoffs, George Gissing, Gustav Radde, and Girolamo de Rada. After him are Lina Sandell, Eugène-Anatole Demarçay, Konstantinos Paspatis, Petko Karavelov, Princess Leopoldine of Baden, and Paul Du Chaillu.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Frederick Law Olmsted ranks 4,894 out of 20,380. Before him are Eugene Garfield (1925), Michelle Williams (1980), Hal B. Wallis (1898), Carole Landis (1919), Roy Raymond (1947), and John Neumeier (1939). After him are Bill Richardson (1947), Eric Heiden (1958), Joseph Brant (1742), Barbara Hutton (1912), Ron Woodroof (1950), and Butterfly McQueen (1911).

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Among ARCHITECTS In United States

Among architects born in United States, Frederick Law Olmsted ranks 21. Before him are Sixto Durán Ballén (1921), Charles Jencks (1939), Thom Mayne (1944), Steven Holl (1947), Michael Graves (1934), and Gordon Bunshaft (1909). After him are Daniel Burnham (1846), Walter Burley Griffin (1876), John Hejduk (1929), Robert Moses (1888), Julia Morgan (1872), and Cass Gilbert (1859).

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