1826 - 1910
Hormuzd Rassam (Arabic: هرمز رسام; Syriac: ܗܪܡܙܕ ܪܣܐܡ; 1826 – 16 September 1910) was an Assyriologist and author. He is known for making a number of important archaeological discoveries from 1877 to 1882, including the clay tablets that contained the Epic of Gilgamesh, the world's oldest notable literature. He is widely believed to be the first-known Middle Eastern and Assyrian archaeologist from the Ottoman empire. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hormuzd Rassam has received more than 168,952 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Hormuzd Rassam is the 53rd most popular archaeologist (down from 50th in 2019), the 240th most popular biography from Iraq (down from 236th in 2019) and the most popular Iraqi Archaeologist.
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Among archaeologists, Hormuzd Rassam ranks 53 out of 104. Before him are Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola, Gustaf Kossinna, Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet, Isdal Woman, and Colin Renfrew. After him are Peter Wilhelm Lund, Spyridon Marinatos, Giuseppe Fiorelli, Johan Gunnar Andersson, Halet Çambel, and Robert Broom.
1831 - 1888
HPI: 53.50
Rank: 47
1858 - 1931
HPI: 53.15
Rank: 48
1788 - 1868
HPI: 53.02
Rank: 49
1821 - 1898
HPI: 52.36
Rank: 50
1940 - 1970
HPI: 52.10
Rank: 51
1937 - Present
HPI: 52.06
Rank: 52
1826 - 1910
HPI: 51.90
Rank: 53
1801 - 1880
HPI: 51.89
Rank: 54
1901 - 1974
HPI: 51.84
Rank: 55
1823 - 1896
HPI: 51.71
Rank: 56
1874 - 1960
HPI: 51.51
Rank: 57
1916 - 2014
HPI: 51.44
Rank: 58
1866 - 1951
HPI: 51.41
Rank: 59
Among people born in 1826, Hormuzd Rassam ranks 30. Before him are Cetshwayo kaMpande, Henri Mouhot, Princess Alexandra of Bavaria, Spotted Elk, Giuseppe Zanardelli, and Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg. After him are Giovanni Battista Donati, William Waddington, Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg, Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, Karl Gegenbaur, and Charles Barbier de Meynard. Among people deceased in 1910, Hormuzd Rassam ranks 54. Before him are Wilhelm Raabe, Jorge Chávez, Friedrich Kohlrausch, Kálmán Mikszáth, Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen, and Reginald Doherty. After him are Paolo Mantegazza, Gustav Adolf von Götzen, Julius Petersen, Edouard Van Beneden, William Graham Sumner, and Vera Komissarzhevskaya.
1826 - 1884
HPI: 54.90
Rank: 24
1826 - 1861
HPI: 54.76
Rank: 25
1826 - 1875
HPI: 54.51
Rank: 26
1826 - 1890
HPI: 52.37
Rank: 27
1826 - 1903
HPI: 52.29
Rank: 28
1826 - 1908
HPI: 52.28
Rank: 29
1826 - 1910
HPI: 51.90
Rank: 30
1826 - 1873
HPI: 51.73
Rank: 31
1826 - 1894
HPI: 51.68
Rank: 32
1826 - 1896
HPI: 51.45
Rank: 33
1826 - 1902
HPI: 51.08
Rank: 34
1826 - 1903
HPI: 51.06
Rank: 35
1826 - 1908
HPI: 51.05
Rank: 36
1831 - 1910
HPI: 53.86
Rank: 48
1887 - 1910
HPI: 53.34
Rank: 49
1840 - 1910
HPI: 52.48
Rank: 50
1847 - 1910
HPI: 52.29
Rank: 51
1833 - 1910
HPI: 51.99
Rank: 52
1872 - 1910
HPI: 51.97
Rank: 53
1826 - 1910
HPI: 51.90
Rank: 54
1831 - 1910
HPI: 51.29
Rank: 55
1866 - 1910
HPI: 50.99
Rank: 56
1839 - 1910
HPI: 50.79
Rank: 57
1846 - 1910
HPI: 50.32
Rank: 58
1840 - 1910
HPI: 50.28
Rank: 59
1864 - 1910
HPI: 49.93
Rank: 60
Among people born in Iraq, Hormuzd Rassam ranks 240 out of 338. Before him are Mustafa Al-Kadhimi (1967), Shamshi-Adad IV (-1100), Al-Asmaʿi (740), Tariq al-Hashimi (1942), Abu Mansur al-Baghdadi (980), and Gungunum (-2000). After him are Ashur-bel-kala (-1200), Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi (1976), Muqtada al-Sadr (1974), Abu Sulayman Sijistani (932), Kadashman-Enlil I (-1400), and Nazik Al-Malaika (1923).
1967 - Present
HPI: 52.17
Rank: 234
1100 BC - 1100 BC
HPI: 52.09
Rank: 235
740 - 828
HPI: 52.07
Rank: 236
1942 - Present
HPI: 52.06
Rank: 237
980 - 1037
HPI: 52.01
Rank: 238
2000 BC - 2000 BC
HPI: 51.94
Rank: 239
1826 - 1910
HPI: 51.90
Rank: 240
1200 BC - 1056 BC
HPI: 51.88
Rank: 241
1976 - 2022
HPI: 51.87
Rank: 242
1974 - Present
HPI: 51.64
Rank: 243
932 - 1000
HPI: 51.48
Rank: 244
1400 BC - 1400 BC
HPI: 51.41
Rank: 245
1923 - 2007
HPI: 51.33
Rank: 246
Among archaeologists born in Iraq, Hormuzd Rassam ranks 1. After him are Akurgal (-2600).