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John Rupert Firth

1890 - 1960

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John Rupert Firth OBE (June 17, 1890 in Keighley, Yorkshire – December 14, 1960 in Lindfield, West Sussex), commonly known as J. R. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Rupert Firth has received more than 140,257 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. John Rupert Firth is the 165th most popular linguist, the 4,066th most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 13th most popular British Linguist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 140k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 44.47

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.75

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.38

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, John Rupert Firth ranks 165 out of 161. Before him are Renato Corsetti, Arsène Darmesteter, Lev Shcherba, Henry Liddell, Francisco Rodríguez Adrados, and Viktor Vinogradov. After him are Sergei Starostin, Ziad Fazah, Vladislav Illich-Svitych, Jacob Wackernagel, María Rosa Lida de Malkiel, and Ivan Kuratov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, John Rupert Firth ranks 187. Before him are Klabund, Robert Ripley, Åge Lundström, Benno Moiseiwitsch, Eddie Rickenbacker, and Per Nilsson. After him are Edward Arnold, Edgar Kennedy, Béla Las-Torres, Ichiya Kumagae, Marc Wright, and Konstantinos Georgakopoulos. Among people deceased in 1960, John Rupert Firth ranks 181. Before him are Ian Keith, Harry Blanchard, Alexandre Lippmann, Léon Sée, Julius Frey, and Juan Manuel Frutos. After him are Karel Absolon, Nils Widforss, Alfred E. Green, The Great Gama, Erik Lindahl, and Lawrence Tibbett.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Rupert Firth ranks 4,066 out of 7,765. Before him are Erskine Hamilton Childers (1905), Frederick Rolfe (1860), Sidney Robinson (1876), Edith Hannam (1878), Roy Kinnear (1934), and Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1886). After him are George Alexander Macfarren (1813), Mike Summerbee (1942), Anthony Harvey (1930), Stephen Graham (1973), Andrew Fisher (1862), and Hugh Hopper (1945).

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Among LINGUISTS In United Kingdom

Among linguists born in United Kingdom, John Rupert Firth ranks 13. Before him are Brian Houghton Hodgson (1800), Jane Ellen Harrison (1850), James Legge (1815), John Lyons (1932), John Eliot (1604), and Henry Liddell (1811). After him are Alexander Melville Bell (1819), Henry Sweet (1845), and Henry Watson Fowler (1858).

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