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I. M. Pei

1917 - 2019

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Ieoh Ming Pei ( YOH ming PAY; Chinese: 貝聿銘; pinyin: Bèi Yùmíng; April 26, 1917 – May 16, 2019) was a Chinese-American architect. Born in Guangzhou into a Chinese family, Pei drew inspiration at an early age from the garden villas at Suzhou, the traditional retreat of the scholar-gentry to which his family belonged. In 1935, he moved to the United States and enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania's architecture school, but quickly transferred to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of I. M. Pei has received more than 3,286,347 page views. His biography is available in 82 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 81 in 2019). I. M. Pei is the 41st most popular architect (up from 50th in 2019), the 120th most popular biography from China (up from 125th in 2019) and the most popular Chinese Architect.

I. M. Pei is most famous for designing the Louvre Pyramid in Paris, France.

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  • 66.41

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 82

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.32

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.28

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, I. M. Pei ranks 41 out of 424. Before him are Friedensreich Hundertwasser, André Le Nôtre, Hippodamus of Miletus, Ictinus, Jørn Utzon, and Vladimir Tatlin. After him are Callicrates, Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, Rem Koolhaas, Christopher Wren, François Mansart, and Arne Jacobsen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, I. M. Pei ranks 13. Before him are Eric Hobsbawm, Ilya Prigogine, Joan Fontaine, Frederica of Hanover, Ernest Borgnine, and Anthony Burgess. After him are Robert Mitchum, Christian de Duve, Sidney Sheldon, Dean Martin, Joan Clarke, and Kenan Evren. Among people deceased in 2019, I. M. Pei ranks 18. Before him are Agnès Varda, Alexei Leonov, Anna Karina, Franco Zeffirelli, Karel Gott, and Jeffrey Epstein. After him are Immanuel Wallerstein, Kary Mullis, Marie Fredriksson, Peter Fonda, Michel Legrand, and Doris Day.

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In China

Among people born in China, I. M. Pei ranks 120 out of 1,392. Before him are Soong Mei-ling (1897), Yue Fei (1142), King Wu of Zhou (-1150), Shen Kuo (1031), Emperor Jing of Han (-188), and Emperor Wen of Han (-202). After him are Emperor Guangwu of Han (-5), Li Xiannian (1909), Zhang Qian (-200), Sun Jian (155), Zhou Yu (175), and Temür Khan (1265).

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Among ARCHITECTS In China

Among architects born in China, I. M. Pei ranks 1. After him are Yan Liben (600), Lin Huiyin (1904), and Wang Shu (1963).

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