1854 - 1941
Sir James George Frazer (; 1 January 1854 – 7 May 1941) was a Scottish social anthropologist and folklorist influential in the early stages of the modern studies of mythology and comparative religion. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James George Frazer has received more than 580,422 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 52 in 2019). James George Frazer is the 4th most popular anthropologist (down from 2nd in 2019), the 245th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 211th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular British Anthropologist.
James George Frazer was a Scottish anthropologist and folklorist. He is most famous for his work The Golden Bough, a study of comparative religion and magic.
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Among anthropologists, James George Frazer ranks 4 out of 69. Before him are Claude Lévi-Strauss, Bronisław Malinowski, and Edward Burnett Tylor. After him are Lewis H. Morgan, Jane Goodall, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Franz Boas, Paul Broca, Clifford Geertz, and Gregory Bateson.
1908 - 2009
HPI: 75.47
Rank: 1
1884 - 1942
HPI: 71.55
Rank: 2
1832 - 1917
HPI: 69.65
Rank: 3
1854 - 1941
HPI: 69.50
Rank: 4
1818 - 1881
HPI: 68.86
Rank: 5
1934 - Present
HPI: 68.73
Rank: 6
1901 - 1978
HPI: 68.72
Rank: 7
1887 - 1948
HPI: 66.41
Rank: 8
1858 - 1942
HPI: 66.39
Rank: 9
1824 - 1880
HPI: 65.72
Rank: 10
1926 - 2006
HPI: 65.53
Rank: 11
1904 - 1980
HPI: 64.94
Rank: 12
Among people born in 1854, James George Frazer ranks 8. Before him are Arthur Rimbaud, Pope Benedict XV, Henri Poincaré, Leoš Janáček, Paul Ehrlich, and Karl Kautsky. After him are Emil von Behring, Henri La Fontaine, Paul Sabatier, George Eastman, Milan I of Serbia, and Georges Picquart. Among people deceased in 1941, James George Frazer ranks 10. Before him are Henri Bergson, Virginia Woolf, Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, Alfonso XIII of Spain, Maximilian Kolbe, and Maurice Leblanc. After him are Arthur Evans, Robert Delaunay, Frederick Banting, Emanuel Lasker, Walther Nernst, and Ioannis Metaxas.
1854 - 1891
HPI: 78.92
Rank: 2
1854 - 1922
HPI: 77.30
Rank: 3
1854 - 1912
HPI: 76.01
Rank: 4
1854 - 1928
HPI: 70.33
Rank: 5
1854 - 1915
HPI: 70.05
Rank: 6
1854 - 1938
HPI: 69.60
Rank: 7
1854 - 1941
HPI: 69.50
Rank: 8
1854 - 1917
HPI: 69.30
Rank: 9
1854 - 1943
HPI: 68.35
Rank: 10
1854 - 1941
HPI: 66.83
Rank: 11
1854 - 1932
HPI: 64.15
Rank: 12
1854 - 1901
HPI: 64.08
Rank: 13
1854 - 1914
HPI: 61.65
Rank: 14
1859 - 1941
HPI: 78.59
Rank: 4
1882 - 1941
HPI: 77.56
Rank: 5
1857 - 1941
HPI: 77.50
Rank: 6
1886 - 1941
HPI: 73.29
Rank: 7
1894 - 1941
HPI: 72.02
Rank: 8
1864 - 1941
HPI: 71.58
Rank: 9
1854 - 1941
HPI: 69.50
Rank: 10
1851 - 1941
HPI: 69.45
Rank: 11
1885 - 1941
HPI: 68.92
Rank: 12
1891 - 1941
HPI: 68.82
Rank: 13
1868 - 1941
HPI: 68.76
Rank: 14
1864 - 1941
HPI: 68.16
Rank: 15
1871 - 1941
HPI: 66.94
Rank: 16
Among people born in United Kingdom, James George Frazer ranks 245 out of 7,765. Before him are William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (1824), John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (1842), John Law (1671), Ken Loach (1936), Alexander Selkirk (1676), and Clement Attlee (1883). After him are David Gilmour (1946), Bobby Charlton (1937), Timothy Dalton (1946), Roger Waters (1943), Randal Cremer (1828), and Arthur Evans (1851).
1824 - 1907
HPI: 69.64
Rank: 239
1842 - 1919
HPI: 69.62
Rank: 240
1671 - 1729
HPI: 69.62
Rank: 241
1936 - Present
HPI: 69.54
Rank: 242
1676 - 1721
HPI: 69.52
Rank: 243
1883 - 1967
HPI: 69.51
Rank: 244
1854 - 1941
HPI: 69.50
Rank: 245
1946 - Present
HPI: 69.50
Rank: 246
1937 - 2023
HPI: 69.49
Rank: 247
1946 - Present
HPI: 69.47
Rank: 248
1943 - Present
HPI: 69.46
Rank: 249
1828 - 1908
HPI: 69.46
Rank: 250
1851 - 1941
HPI: 69.45
Rank: 251
Among anthropologists born in United Kingdom, James George Frazer ranks 2. Before him are Edward Burnett Tylor (1832). After him are Jane Goodall (1934), Gregory Bateson (1904), Alfred Radcliffe-Brown (1881), E. E. Evans-Pritchard (1902), Victor Turner (1920), Mary Leakey (1913), Edmund Leach (1910), Ashley Montagu (1905), Hugh Falconer (1808), and Alice Roberts (1973).
1832 - 1917
HPI: 69.65
Rank: 1
1854 - 1941
HPI: 69.50
Rank: 2
1934 - Present
HPI: 68.73
Rank: 3
1904 - 1980
HPI: 64.94
Rank: 4
1881 - 1955
HPI: 61.52
Rank: 5
1902 - 1973
HPI: 59.52
Rank: 6
1920 - 1983
HPI: 58.05
Rank: 7
1913 - 1996
HPI: 57.89
Rank: 8
1910 - 1989
HPI: 49.97
Rank: 9
1905 - 1999
HPI: 46.97
Rank: 10
1808 - 1865
HPI: 42.03
Rank: 11
1973 - Present
HPI: 22.99
Rank: 12