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Hippodamus of Miletus

498 BC - 408 BC

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Hippodamus of Miletus (; Greek: Ἱππόδαμος ὁ Μιλήσιος, Hippodamos ho Milesios; 498–408 BC) was an ancient Greek architect, urban planner, physician, mathematician, meteorologist and philosopher, who is considered to be "the father of European urban planning", and the namesake of the "Hippodamian plan" (grid plan) of city layout, although rectangular city plans were in use by the ancient Greeks as early as the 8th c. BC. Hippodamus was born in Miletus and lived during the 5th century BC, on the spring of the Ancient Greece classical epoch. His father was Euryphon. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hippodamus of Miletus has received more than 246,736 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Hippodamus of Miletus is the 37th most popular architect, the 194th most popular biography from Turkey (up from 196th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Turkish Architect.

Hippodamus of Miletus is most famous for his design of the grid plan, which is a rectangular street plan that divides a city into blocks.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Hippodamus of Miletus ranks 37 out of 424Before him are Henry van de Velde, Peter Behrens, Santiago Calatrava, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, and André Le Nôtre. After him are Ictinus, Jørn Utzon, Vladimir Tatlin, I. M. Pei, Callicrates, and Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 498 BC, Hippodamus of Miletus ranks 1 Among people deceased in 408 BC, Hippodamus of Miletus ranks 1After him are Pleistoanax and Hermocrates.

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In Turkey

Among people born in Turkey, Hippodamus of Miletus ranks 194 out of 1,301Before him are Constantine IV (652), Theodore of Amasea (300), Phorcys (null), Andronikos I Komnenos (1118), Adnan Menderes (1899), and Süleyman Demirel (1924). After him are Proclus (412), Sabiha Gökçen (1913), Anthemius (420), Yunus Emre (1240), Turgut Özal (1927), and Bias of Priene (-600).

Among ARCHITECTS In Turkey

Among architects born in Turkey, Hippodamus of Miletus ranks 2Before him are Mimar Sinan (1490). After him are Isidore of Miletus (442), Sostratus of Cnidus (-290), Kadir Topbaş (1945), Toros Toramanian (1864), and Gülsün Sağlamer (1945).