ANTHROPOLOGIST

Jane Goodall

1934 - Today

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Dame Jane Morris Goodall (; born Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall; 3 April 1934), formerly Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall, is an English zoologist, primatologist and anthropologist. She is considered the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, after 60 years' studying the social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jane Goodall has received more than 12,587,084 page views. Her biography is available in 77 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 70 in 2019). Jane Goodall is the 4th most popular anthropologist (up from 6th in 2019), the 272nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 274th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular British Anthropologist.

Jane Goodall is most famous for her groundbreaking research on chimpanzees in Tanzania. She is also an author, lecturer, and animal rights activist.

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  • 77

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.04

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.46

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Jane Goodall ranks 4 out of 93. Before her are Claude Lévi-Strauss, Bronisław Malinowski, and James George Frazer. After her are Edward Burnett Tylor, Lewis H. Morgan, Paul Broca, Margaret Mead, Franz Boas, Ruth Benedict, Gregory Bateson, and Clifford Geertz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Jane Goodall ranks 17. Before her are Carl Sagan, Nana Mouskouri, Daniel Kahneman, Judi Dench, Leonid Kravchuk, and Vavá. After her are Paco Rabanne, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Ulrike Meinhof, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Pierre Richard, and Stjepan Mesić.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Jane Goodall ranks 272 out of 8,785. Before her are Ælfweard of Wessex (904), Princess Margaret of Connaught (1882), Liz Truss (1975), Daniel Day-Lewis (1957), Edward Victor Appleton (1892), and Frank Whittle (1907). After her are John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (1842), John Deacon (1951), Bede (672), Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792), Emmeline Pankhurst (1858), and Tony Scott (1944).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among anthropologists born in United Kingdom, Jane Goodall ranks 2. Before her are James George Frazer (1854). After her are Edward Burnett Tylor (1832), Gregory Bateson (1904), Alfred Radcliffe-Brown (1881), E. E. Evans-Pritchard (1902), Mary Leakey (1913), Victor Turner (1920), Edmund Leach (1910), Jack Goody (1919), Ashley Montagu (1905), and Marilyn Strathern (1941).

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