ARCHAEOLOGIST

John Evans

1823 - 1908

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Sir John Evans (17 November 1823 – 31 May 1908) was an English antiquarian, geologist and founder of prehistoric archaeology. Between 1884 and 1908 he was curator of Oxford's Ashmolean Museum, becoming the founding member of the British Academy in 1902 and professor of prehistoric archaeology at Oxford in 1909. The John Evans collection, housed at Oxford's Ashmolean Museum, comprises more than 12,000 objects, including a large proportion of British Palaeolithic stone tools. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Evans has received more than 80,481 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. John Evans is the 90th most popular archaeologist (down from 84th in 2019), the 3,233rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,123rd in 2019) and the 15th most popular British Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, John Evans ranks 90 out of 151. Before him are Christiane Desroches Noblecourt, J. P. Mallory, Tatiana Proskouriakoff, Dorothy Garrod, Ernst Herzfeld, and Akurgal. After him are Donald Johanson, Edward Robinson, John Marshall, Jean-François Séguier, Massimo Pallottino, and Zsófia Torma.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1823, John Evans ranks 62. Before him are Oscar Dickson, Heymann Steinthal, Charlotte Mary Yonge, Emilio Arrieta, Simon Bolivar Buckner, and Eduard Oscar Schmidt. After him are Daniel Harrwitz, Gonçalves Dias, Ernest Reyer, Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent, Joseph Leidy, and Dmitry Tolstoy. Among people deceased in 1908, John Evans ranks 81. Before him are Herman Snellen, René Panhard, Ernest Hébert, Rūdolfs Blaumanis, Lorenz Frølich, and Baron Ignaz von Plener. After him are Carl Koldewey, Henry Clifton Sorby, Svatopluk Čech, Hashimoto Gahō, Antonio Aguilar y Correa, Marquis of Vega de Armijo, and Silvije Strahimir Kranjčević.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Evans ranks 3,233 out of 8,785. Before him are Chris Blackwell (1937), Thomas Francis Wade (1818), Paul Day (1956), Marc Almond (1957), Noddy Holder (1946), and Peter R. Hunt (1925). After him are Lottie Dod (1871), John Lennard-Jones (1894), Lewis Fry Richardson (1881), Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland (1341), John Benbow (1653), and Wilfrid (634).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among archaeologists born in United Kingdom, John Evans ranks 15. Before him are Colin Renfrew (1937), Robert Broom (1866), Alan Gardiner (1879), Kathleen Kenyon (1906), Charles Dawson (1864), and Dorothy Garrod (1892). After him are John Marshall (1876), John O. Westwood (1805), James Mellaart (1925), E. A. Wallis Budge (1857), James Prinsep (1799), and Colin Groves (1942).

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