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 758,511 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Gregory Bateson is the 11th most popular anthropologist (down from 10th in 2019), the 470th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 446th 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 Franz Boas, Jane Goodall, Clifford Geertz, Lewis H. Morgan, Ruth Benedict, and Paul Broca. After him are Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, A. L. Kroeber, Eugène Dubois, Edward T. Hall, E. E. Evans-Pritchard, and Knud Rasmussen.
1858 - 1942
HPI: 75.74
Rank: 5
1934 - Present
HPI: 75.70
Rank: 6
1926 - 2006
HPI: 74.07
Rank: 7
1818 - 1881
HPI: 73.98
Rank: 8
1887 - 1948
HPI: 73.78
Rank: 9
1824 - 1880
HPI: 73.74
Rank: 10
1904 - 1980
HPI: 73.18
Rank: 11
1881 - 1955
HPI: 70.98
Rank: 12
1876 - 1960
HPI: 70.44
Rank: 13
1858 - 1940
HPI: 69.94
Rank: 14
1914 - 2009
HPI: 69.17
Rank: 15
1902 - 1973
HPI: 69.08
Rank: 16
1879 - 1933
HPI: 68.96
Rank: 17
Among people born in 1904, Gregory Bateson ranks 23. Before him are Karl Brandt, Kurt Georg Kiesinger, René Lacoste, Harry Martinson, John Hicks, and Wendell Meredith Stanley. After him are Hans Albert Einstein, Joan Crawford, Glenn Miller, Odilo Globočnik, Hans Morgenthau, and Ernst Mayr. Among people deceased in 1980, Gregory Bateson ranks 29. Before him are Milton H. Erickson, Alexei Kosygin, Peter Sellers, Otto Frank, Óscar Romero, and Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia. After him are John Bonham, Hans Morgenthau, Hans Asperger, Bill Evans, Seretse Khama, and Marcelo Caetano.
1904 - 1948
HPI: 74.48
Rank: 17
1904 - 1988
HPI: 74.13
Rank: 18
1904 - 1996
HPI: 74.10
Rank: 19
1904 - 1978
HPI: 73.37
Rank: 20
1904 - 1989
HPI: 73.29
Rank: 21
1904 - 1971
HPI: 73.26
Rank: 22
1904 - 1980
HPI: 73.18
Rank: 23
1904 - 1973
HPI: 73.15
Rank: 24
1904 - 1977
HPI: 73.09
Rank: 25
1904 - 1944
HPI: 73.08
Rank: 26
1904 - 1945
HPI: 72.91
Rank: 27
1904 - 1980
HPI: 72.88
Rank: 28
1904 - 2005
HPI: 72.84
Rank: 29
1901 - 1980
HPI: 74.79
Rank: 23
1904 - 1980
HPI: 74.76
Rank: 24
1925 - 1980
HPI: 74.59
Rank: 25
1889 - 1980
HPI: 74.32
Rank: 26
1917 - 1980
HPI: 73.80
Rank: 27
1892 - 1980
HPI: 73.37
Rank: 28
1904 - 1980
HPI: 73.18
Rank: 29
1948 - 1980
HPI: 73.01
Rank: 30
1904 - 1980
HPI: 72.88
Rank: 31
1906 - 1980
HPI: 72.87
Rank: 32
1929 - 1980
HPI: 72.74
Rank: 33
1921 - 1980
HPI: 72.38
Rank: 34
1906 - 1980
HPI: 72.24
Rank: 35
Among people born in United Kingdom, Gregory Bateson ranks 470 out of 6,924. Before him are John Hicks (1904), Christian de Duve (1917), Sam Neill (1947), William Ewart Gladstone (1809), Richard Arkwright (1732), and Thomas Cromwell (1485). After him are Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (1532), Stanley Matthews (1915), William Baffin (1584), Harthacnut (1018), Gustav Holst (1874), and Emma Thompson (1959).
1904 - 1989
HPI: 73.29
Rank: 464
1917 - 2013
HPI: 73.26
Rank: 465
1947 - Present
HPI: 73.24
Rank: 466
1809 - 1898
HPI: 73.24
Rank: 467
1732 - 1792
HPI: 73.18
Rank: 468
1485 - 1540
HPI: 73.18
Rank: 469
1904 - 1980
HPI: 73.18
Rank: 470
1532 - 1588
HPI: 73.18
Rank: 471
1915 - 2000
HPI: 73.16
Rank: 472
1584 - 1622
HPI: 73.16
Rank: 473
1018 - 1042
HPI: 73.15
Rank: 474
1874 - 1934
HPI: 73.15
Rank: 475
1959 - Present
HPI: 73.15
Rank: 476
Among anthropologists born in United Kingdom, Gregory Bateson ranks 4. Before him are James George Frazer (1854), Edward Burnett Tylor (1832), 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).
1854 - 1941
HPI: 77.29
Rank: 1
1832 - 1917
HPI: 76.93
Rank: 2
1934 - Present
HPI: 75.70
Rank: 3
1904 - 1980
HPI: 73.18
Rank: 4
1881 - 1955
HPI: 70.98
Rank: 5
1902 - 1973
HPI: 69.08
Rank: 6
1920 - 1983
HPI: 68.16
Rank: 7
1913 - 1996
HPI: 65.91
Rank: 8
1910 - 1989
HPI: 61.22
Rank: 9
1905 - 1999
HPI: 58.95
Rank: 10
1808 - 1865
HPI: 58.41
Rank: 11
1973 - Present
HPI: 40.73
Rank: 12