ARCHAEOLOGIST

John O. Westwood

1805 - 1893

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John Obadiah Westwood (22 December 1805 – 2 January 1893) was an English entomologist and archaeologist also noted for his artistic talents. He published several illustrated works on insects and antiquities. He was among the first entomologists with an academic position at Oxford University. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John O. Westwood has received more than 28,121 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). John O. Westwood is the 97th most popular archaeologist (up from 102nd in 2019), the 3,425th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,617th in 2019) and the 17th most popular British Archaeologist.

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  • 28k

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  • 48.35

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.63

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.21

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year John O. Westwood has had the most page views in the with 3,859 views, followed by Chinese (1,597), and Spanish (987). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Korean (157.53%), Persian (63.78%), and Malayalam (58.36%)

Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, John O. Westwood ranks 97 out of 151. Before him are Donald Johanson, Edward Robinson, John Marshall, Jean-François Séguier, Massimo Pallottino, and Zsófia Torma. After him are James Mellaart, E. A. Wallis Budge, Henri Frankfort, Blaga Aleksova, Paul Rivet, and James Prinsep.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1805, John O. Westwood ranks 63. Before him are Victor Baltard, Karl Ferdinand Sohn, Georg Gottfried Gervinus, Hugo von Mohl, Josef Danhauser, and Eugène Devéria. After him are José Ballivián, Robert Anderson, Rudolf Wagner, Tomás Villalba, Tomás Frías, and Alexander Burnes. Among people deceased in 1893, John O. Westwood ranks 71. Before him are Lucy Stone, Arnaud-Michel d'Abbadie, Carl Christoffer Georg Andræ, John William Casilear, John Abbott, and Karl Bodmer. After him are Charles of Mount Argus, James G. Blaine, Ali bin Said of Zanzibar, Louis Ruchonnet, Ignacio Manuel Altamirano, and Aleksey Pleshcheyev.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John O. Westwood ranks 3,425 out of 8,785. Before him are Stanley Morison (1889), William Tenn (1920), Bert Jansch (1943), Brian Lumley (1937), Brian Houghton Hodgson (1800), and Elizabeth Jane Howard (1923). After him are Joe Jackson (1954), Wilfred Baddeley (1872), Stanley Spencer (1891), E. L. James (1963), Peter Davison (1951), and Tony Martin (1957).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among archaeologists born in United Kingdom, John O. Westwood ranks 17. Before him are Alan Gardiner (1879), Kathleen Kenyon (1906), Charles Dawson (1864), Dorothy Garrod (1892), John Evans (1823), and John Marshall (1876). After him are James Mellaart (1925), E. A. Wallis Budge (1857), James Prinsep (1799), Colin Groves (1942), Mortimer Wheeler (1890), and Meave Leakey (1942).

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