1936 - Today
Jan Gehl Hon. FAIA (born 17 September 1936, Copenhagen) is a Danish architect and urban design consultant based in Copenhagen whose career has focused on improving the quality of urban life by re-orienting city design towards the pedestrian and cyclist. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jan Gehl has received more than 278,679 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Jan Gehl is the 179th most popular architect (up from 250th in 2019), the 193rd most popular biography from Denmark (up from 243rd in 2019) and the 5th most popular Danish Architect.
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Among architects, Jan Gehl ranks 179 out of 424. Before him are Kisho Kurokawa, Mikhail Eisenstein, Jacques-François Blondel, Pietro Lombardo, Jacques Lemercier, and Henri Labrouste. After him are Roberto Burle Marx, Paul Troost, Jacob van Campen, François Blondel, John Nash, and Bernard Tschumi.
1934 - 2007
HPI: 56.31
Rank: 173
1867 - 1920
HPI: 56.27
Rank: 174
1705 - 1774
HPI: 56.14
Rank: 175
1435 - 1515
HPI: 56.09
Rank: 176
1585 - 1654
HPI: 56.08
Rank: 177
1801 - 1875
HPI: 56.06
Rank: 178
1936 - Present
HPI: 56.00
Rank: 179
1909 - 1994
HPI: 55.91
Rank: 180
1878 - 1934
HPI: 55.89
Rank: 181
1596 - 1657
HPI: 55.80
Rank: 182
1618 - 1686
HPI: 55.67
Rank: 183
1752 - 1835
HPI: 55.67
Rank: 184
1944 - Present
HPI: 55.51
Rank: 185
Among people born in 1936, Jan Gehl ranks 129. Before him are Raimonds Pauls, Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy, Yuan T. Lee, Tuncel Kurtiz, Alejandra Pizarnik, and Horst Mahler. After him are Eugenio Barba, Louis Gossett Jr., Zeynab Khanlarova, Robert Downey Sr., A. B. Yehoshua, and Julio María Sanguinetti.
1936 - Present
HPI: 56.53
Rank: 123
1936 - Present
HPI: 56.37
Rank: 124
1936 - Present
HPI: 56.36
Rank: 125
1936 - 2013
HPI: 56.25
Rank: 126
1936 - 1972
HPI: 56.23
Rank: 127
1936 - Present
HPI: 56.07
Rank: 128
1936 - Present
HPI: 56.00
Rank: 129
1936 - Present
HPI: 55.92
Rank: 130
1936 - Present
HPI: 55.66
Rank: 131
1936 - Present
HPI: 55.61
Rank: 132
1936 - 2021
HPI: 55.58
Rank: 133
1936 - 2022
HPI: 55.56
Rank: 134
1936 - Present
HPI: 55.53
Rank: 135
Among people born in Denmark, Jan Gehl ranks 193 out of 893. Before him are Peter Andreas Hansen (1795), Prince Axel of Denmark (1888), Dorothea of Denmark, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1546), John II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg (1545), Edvard Eriksen (1876), and Dorothea of Denmark, Electress Palatine (1520). After him are Adam Oehlenschläger (1779), Preben Elkjær (1957), Prince Harald of Denmark (1876), Princess Caroline of Denmark (1793), Poul Schlüter (1929), and Princess Frederica Amalia of Denmark (1649).
1795 - 1874
HPI: 56.23
Rank: 187
1888 - 1964
HPI: 56.22
Rank: 188
1546 - 1617
HPI: 56.22
Rank: 189
1545 - 1622
HPI: 56.21
Rank: 190
1876 - 1959
HPI: 56.15
Rank: 191
1520 - 1580
HPI: 56.05
Rank: 192
1936 - Present
HPI: 56.00
Rank: 193
1779 - 1850
HPI: 55.94
Rank: 194
1957 - Present
HPI: 55.93
Rank: 195
1876 - 1949
HPI: 55.93
Rank: 196
1793 - 1881
HPI: 55.87
Rank: 197
1929 - 2021
HPI: 55.82
Rank: 198
1649 - 1704
HPI: 55.74
Rank: 199
Among architects born in Denmark, Jan Gehl ranks 5. Before him are Jørn Utzon (1918), Arne Jacobsen (1902), Theophil Hansen (1813), and Verner Panton (1926). After him are Johan Otto von Spreckelsen (1929), Christian Frederik Hansen (1756), Henning Larsen (1925), and Bjarke Ingels (1974).
1918 - 2008
HPI: 67.10
Rank: 1
1902 - 1971
HPI: 65.85
Rank: 2
1813 - 1891
HPI: 58.96
Rank: 3
1926 - 1998
HPI: 58.85
Rank: 4
1936 - Present
HPI: 56.00
Rank: 5
1929 - 1987
HPI: 51.70
Rank: 6
1756 - 1845
HPI: 51.22
Rank: 7
1925 - 2013
HPI: 49.90
Rank: 8
1974 - Present
HPI: 40.76
Rank: 9