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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; c.480–408 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. His father was Euryphon. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hippodamus of Miletus has received more than 263,506 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Hippodamus of Miletus is the 39th most popular architect (down from 36th in 2019), the 188th most popular biography from Türkiye (up from 194th 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 39 out of 518. Before him are Carlo Maderno, Ictinus, Tadao Ando, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Rem Koolhaas, and Eugène Viollet-le-Duc. After him are I. M. Pei, Kenzō Tange, Callicrates, Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, Michelozzo, and Vladimir Tatlin.

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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 1. After him are Pleistoanax, and Hermocrates.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Hippodamus of Miletus ranks 188 out of 1,347. Before him are Dorothea of Caesarea (279), Theodore I Laskaris (1174), Michael II (770), Pulcheria (399), Constantine VIII (960), and Dragut (1485). After him are Theodore of Amasea (300), Sabiha Gökçen (1913), Michael I Rangabe (770), Fatma Sultan (1500), Gregory Palamas (1296), and Zoë Porphyrogenita (978).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Türkiye

Among architects born in Türkiye, Hippodamus of Miletus ranks 2. Before him are Mimar Sinan (1490). After him are Isidore of Miletus (442), Sostratus of Cnidus (-290), Hermogenes of Priene (-200), Kadir Topbaş (1945), Toros Toramanian (1864), and Gülsün Sağlamer (1945).

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