ANTHROPOLOGIST

Helen Fisher

1945 - 2024

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Helen Elizabeth Fisher (May 31, 1945 – August 17, 2024) was an American anthropologist, human behaviour researcher, and self-help author. She was a biological anthropologist, a senior research fellow at The Kinsey Institute of Indiana University, and a member of the Center For Human Evolutionary Studies in the Department of Anthropology at Rutgers University. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Helen Fisher has received more than 21,724 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Helen Fisher is the 51st most popular anthropologist (up from 59th in 2019), the 4,827th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,389th in 2019) and the 13th most popular American Anthropologist.

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Helen Fisher ranks 51 out of 93Before her are John Lloyd Stephens, Birutė Galdikas, Raymond Firth, Bill Mollison, Gilberto Freyre, and Alfred Sauvy. After her are Bengt Danielsson, Andrey Korotayev, Maurice Godelier, Ralph Linton, Fei Xiaotong, and Edmund Leach.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Helen Fisher ranks 313Before her are Nadezhda Chizhova, Philippe Ouédraogo, Vladimiro Montesinos, Carrie Snodgress, Elvin Hayes, and Ivan Lins. After her are Sam Webb, Jeremy Bulloch, Jörg Immendorff, John Rutter, Brian Connolly, and Faustin Twagiramungu. Among people deceased in 2024, Helen Fisher ranks 222Before her are Paul Alexander, Yukio Kasaya, Damo Suzuki, Jorge Griffa, Edna O'Brien, and Mihaela Peneș. After her are Michael Verhoeven, Mísia, Albert S. Ruddy, Janusz Majewski, David Sanborn, and Willie Mays.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Helen Fisher ranks 4,827 out of 20,380Before her are Sam Jaffe (1891), William Sanderson (1944), Stephen Collins (1947), Ed Begley (1901), Tony Hawk (1968), and Brandon Sanderson (1975). After her are George Bellows (1882), Jackie Wilson (1934), Robert Monroe (1915), Greg Mankiw (1958), Richard Petty (1937), and Robert N. Bellah (1927).

Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In United States

Among anthropologists born in United States, Helen Fisher ranks 13Before her are A. L. Kroeber (1876), Ann Dunham (1942), Marvin Harris (1927), Henry Fairfield Osborn (1857), David Graeber (1961), and John Lloyd Stephens (1805). After her are Ralph Linton (1893), Melville J. Herskovits (1895), George Murdock (1897), Gayle Rubin (1949), Madison Grant (1865), and Michael Harner (1929).