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John Lyons

1932 - 2020

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Sir John Lyons FBA (23 May 1932 – 12 March 2020) was a British linguist, working on semantics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Lyons has received more than 17,410 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). John Lyons is the 154th most popular linguist (down from 150th in 2019), the 3,694th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,589th in 2019) and the 9th most popular British Linguist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 17k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.48

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.02

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.95

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, John Lyons ranks 154 out of 214. Before him are Gerhard Rohlfs, Sylvain Lévi, Alexander Veselovsky, Mary Boyce, Kazimieras Būga, and Martí de Riquer i Morera. After him are Arsène Darmesteter, Ziad Fazah, Arnold Chikobava, Hermann Hirt, Charles F. Hockett, and Takekazu Asaka.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, John Lyons ranks 340. Before him are Frank Beyer, Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, István Bilek, Solomon W. Golomb, Clifton Williams, and Cesare Perdisa. After him are Els Borst, Jacques Roubaud, Bruce Glover, Angela Mortimer, Igor Kirillov, and Günter Sawitzki. Among people deceased in 2020, John Lyons ranks 422. Before him are Donato Bilancia, Alki Zei, Richard Corben, Doug Rogers, Tom Heinsohn, and Ernst Jean-Joseph. After him are Nikolai Gubenko, Ram Vilas Paswan, Gordon Haskell, Regis Philbin, Barbara Windsor, and Roman Viktyuk.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Lyons ranks 3,694 out of 8,785. Before him are Pat Symonds (1953), Robert Lindsay (1890), Harold Mahony (1867), Henry Litolff (1818), Calvin Harris (1984), and Isabella Beeton (1836). After him are Bob Houghton (1947), Tony Benn (1925), Michael Hirst (1952), Joseph Bramah (1748), Howard Donald (1968), and Joyce Mansour (1928).

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Among LINGUISTS In United Kingdom

Among linguists born in United Kingdom, John Lyons ranks 9. Before him are John Chadwick (1920), Michael Halliday (1925), Daniel Jones (1881), John Florio (1553), James Legge (1815), and Brian Houghton Hodgson (1800). After him are Henry Liddell (1811), Jane Ellen Harrison (1850), John Rupert Firth (1890), John Eliot (1604), Oswald Szemerényi (1913), and Henry Sweet (1845).

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