ANTHROPOLOGIST

Gilberto Freyre

1900 - 1987

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Gilberto de Mello Freyre (March 15, 1900 – July 18, 1987) was a Brazilian sociologist, anthropologist, historian, writer, painter, journalist and congressman born in Recife. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gilberto Freyre has received more than 188,534 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Gilberto Freyre is the 49th most popular anthropologist (down from 47th in 2019), the 352nd most popular biography from Brazil (down from 291st in 2019) and the most popular Brazilian Anthropologist.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Gilberto Freyre ranks 49 out of 93. Before him are Georges Vacher de Lapouge, Lubor Niederle, John Lloyd Stephens, Birutė Galdikas, Raymond Firth, and Bill Mollison. After him are Alfred Sauvy, Helen Fisher, Bengt Danielsson, Andrey Korotayev, Maurice Godelier, and Ralph Linton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Gilberto Freyre ranks 167. Before him are Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, Bing Xin, Roy Harrod, Madeleine Renaud, Lee Beom-seok, and Juan d'Arienzo. After him are Clyde Tolson, Pavel Kurochkin, Charles Vidor, Walther Kadow, Karl Kaufmann, and Mikhail Isakovsky. Among people deceased in 1987, Gilberto Freyre ranks 128. Before him are Petro Grigorenko, Jackie Gleason, Rashid Karami, M. G. Ramachandran, Richard Marquand, and Victoria Kent. After him are Charles Malik, Arne Brustad, Gustav Knuth, James Tiptree Jr., Fatemeh Pahlavi, and Johan Otto von Spreckelsen.

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In Brazil

Among people born in Brazil, Gilberto Freyre ranks 352 out of 2,236. Before him are Ary Barroso (1903), Arthur Machado (1909), Marcos Paquetá (1958), Nereu Ramos (1888), Gilmar Rinaldi (1959), and Augusto da Costa (1920). After him are Airto Moreira (1941), Zé Mário (1949), Mauro Silva (1968), Augusto Tasso Fragoso (1869), Anderson Silva (1975), and Silas Pereira (1965).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In Brazil

Among anthropologists born in Brazil, Gilberto Freyre ranks 1. 

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