1904 - 1980
Gregory Bateson (9 May 1904 – 4 July 1980) was an English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician, and cyberneticist whose work intersected that of many other fields. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gregory Bateson has received more than 919,550 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Gregory Bateson is the 11th most popular anthropologist, the 471st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 470th in 2019) and the 4th most popular British Anthropologist.
Gregory Bateson is most famous for his work in anthropology, cybernetics, and psychology. He was a founding member of the Palo Alto Mental Research Institute.
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Among anthropologists, Gregory Bateson ranks 11 out of 69. Before him are Jane Goodall, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Franz Boas, Paul Broca, and Clifford Geertz. After him are Eugène Dubois, Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, E. E. Evans-Pritchard, Knud Rasmussen, A. L. Kroeber, and Edward T. Hall.
1934 - Present
HPI: 68.73
Rank: 5
1901 - 1978
HPI: 68.72
Rank: 6
1887 - 1948
HPI: 66.41
Rank: 7
1858 - 1942
HPI: 66.39
Rank: 8
1824 - 1880
HPI: 65.72
Rank: 9
1926 - 2006
HPI: 65.53
Rank: 10
1904 - 1980
HPI: 64.94
Rank: 11
1858 - 1940
HPI: 61.52
Rank: 12
1881 - 1955
HPI: 61.52
Rank: 13
1902 - 1973
HPI: 59.52
Rank: 14
1879 - 1933
HPI: 59.51
Rank: 15
1876 - 1960
HPI: 58.52
Rank: 16
1914 - 2009
HPI: 58.32
Rank: 17
Among people born in 1904, Gregory Bateson ranks 28. Before him are Glenn Miller, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Hans Albert Einstein, Werner Forssmann, John Hicks, and Luis Carrero Blanco. After him are Harry Martinson, Dmitry Kabalevsky, Witold Gombrowicz, Hans Morgenthau, Ernst Mayr, and Willem de Kooning. Among people deceased in 1980, Gregory Bateson ranks 31. Before him are Vladimir Vysotsky, Hans Asperger, Oswald Mosley, Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia, Bill Evans, and Marcelo Caetano. After him are Óscar Romero, John Bonham, Anastasio Somoza Debayle, Hans Morgenthau, Willard Libby, and Alexander Oparin.
1904 - 1944
HPI: 65.46
Rank: 22
1904 - 1966
HPI: 65.45
Rank: 23
1904 - 1973
HPI: 65.35
Rank: 24
1904 - 1979
HPI: 65.02
Rank: 25
1904 - 1989
HPI: 65.01
Rank: 26
1904 - 1973
HPI: 64.97
Rank: 27
1904 - 1980
HPI: 64.94
Rank: 28
1904 - 1978
HPI: 64.80
Rank: 29
1904 - 1986
HPI: 64.63
Rank: 30
1904 - 1969
HPI: 64.33
Rank: 31
1904 - 1980
HPI: 64.17
Rank: 32
1904 - 2005
HPI: 63.96
Rank: 33
1904 - 1997
HPI: 63.95
Rank: 34
1938 - 1980
HPI: 67.47
Rank: 25
1906 - 1980
HPI: 67.36
Rank: 26
1896 - 1980
HPI: 66.99
Rank: 27
1892 - 1980
HPI: 66.10
Rank: 28
1929 - 1980
HPI: 65.45
Rank: 29
1906 - 1980
HPI: 64.98
Rank: 30
1904 - 1980
HPI: 64.94
Rank: 31
1917 - 1980
HPI: 64.64
Rank: 32
1948 - 1980
HPI: 64.58
Rank: 33
1925 - 1980
HPI: 64.44
Rank: 34
1904 - 1980
HPI: 64.17
Rank: 35
1908 - 1980
HPI: 63.88
Rank: 36
1894 - 1980
HPI: 63.45
Rank: 37
Among people born in United Kingdom, Gregory Bateson ranks 471 out of 7,765. Before him are Donald Pleasence (1919), John Hicks (1904), Samuel Butler (1835), Samuel Johnson (1709), William Laud (1573), and William Adams (1564). After him are Gustav Holst (1874), John Donne (1572), William Godwin (1756), Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York (1473), Edmund Ironside (993), and John Cleese (1939).
1919 - 1995
HPI: 65.04
Rank: 465
1904 - 1989
HPI: 65.01
Rank: 466
1835 - 1902
HPI: 65.01
Rank: 467
1709 - 1784
HPI: 64.97
Rank: 468
1573 - 1645
HPI: 64.97
Rank: 469
1564 - 1620
HPI: 64.94
Rank: 470
1904 - 1980
HPI: 64.94
Rank: 471
1874 - 1934
HPI: 64.93
Rank: 472
1572 - 1631
HPI: 64.92
Rank: 473
1756 - 1836
HPI: 64.89
Rank: 474
1473 - 1483
HPI: 64.88
Rank: 475
993 - 1016
HPI: 64.85
Rank: 476
1939 - Present
HPI: 64.84
Rank: 477
Among anthropologists born in United Kingdom, Gregory Bateson ranks 4. Before him are Edward Burnett Tylor (1832), James George Frazer (1854), and Jane Goodall (1934). After him are Alfred Radcliffe-Brown (1881), E. E. Evans-Pritchard (1902), Victor Turner (1920), Mary Leakey (1913), Edmund Leach (1910), Ashley Montagu (1905), Hugh Falconer (1808), and Alice Roberts (1973).
1832 - 1917
HPI: 69.65
Rank: 1
1854 - 1941
HPI: 69.50
Rank: 2
1934 - Present
HPI: 68.73
Rank: 3
1904 - 1980
HPI: 64.94
Rank: 4
1881 - 1955
HPI: 61.52
Rank: 5
1902 - 1973
HPI: 59.52
Rank: 6
1920 - 1983
HPI: 58.05
Rank: 7
1913 - 1996
HPI: 57.89
Rank: 8
1910 - 1989
HPI: 49.97
Rank: 9
1905 - 1999
HPI: 46.97
Rank: 10
1808 - 1865
HPI: 42.03
Rank: 11
1973 - Present
HPI: 22.99
Rank: 12