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John Rupert Firth

1890 - 1960

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John Rupert Firth OBE (17 June 1890 in Keighley, Yorkshire – 14 December 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 146,910 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. John Rupert Firth is the 177th most popular linguist (down from 165th in 2019), the 4,304th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,058th in 2019) and the 12th most popular British Linguist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 150k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.67

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.19

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.41

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, John Rupert Firth ranks 177 out of 214. Before him are Andrey Zaliznyak, Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn, Christiane Nord, Friedrich Kluge, Dell Hymes, and Lev Shcherba. After him are Francisco Rodríguez Adrados, Vladislav Illich-Svitych, Ivan Kuratov, Monier Monier-Williams, John Eliot, and Oswald Szemerényi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, John Rupert Firth ranks 213. Before him are Georges Tainturier, Benno Moiseiwitsch, Harry Babcock, Konstantin Vasilyevich Ivanov, Princess Victoria Margaret of Prussia, and Ödön Tersztyánszky. After him are Eoin O'Duffy, Konstantinos Georgakopoulos, Julie Vinter Hansen, Edward Arnold, Caesar ten Cate, and Per Nilsson. Among people deceased in 1960, John Rupert Firth ranks 201. Before him are Curt Goetz, Bodil Katharine Biørn, Léon Sée, Juan Manuel Frutos, Ettore Chimeri, and Liesl Karlstadt. After him are Julie Vinter Hansen, Dudley Nichols, Erik Lindahl, Aneurin Bevan, Otto Nilsson, and Gavriil Adrianovich Tikhov.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Rupert Firth ranks 4,304 out of 8,785. Before him are Phoebe Waller-Bridge (1985), Indira Varma (1973), Gilbert Thomas Burnett (1800), Phyllis Covell (1895), Katrin Cartlidge (1961), and Cliff Bastin (1912). After him are Robert Del Naja (1966), Brian Aherne (1902), Barbara Thompson (1944), John Ireland (1879), Mark Haddon (1962), and Leslie Orgel (1927).

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Among LINGUISTS In United Kingdom

Among linguists born in United Kingdom, John Rupert Firth ranks 12. Before him are John Florio (1553), James Legge (1815), Brian Houghton Hodgson (1800), John Lyons (1932), Henry Liddell (1811), and Jane Ellen Harrison (1850). After him are John Eliot (1604), Oswald Szemerényi (1913), Henry Sweet (1845), Alexander Melville Bell (1819), Henry Watson Fowler (1858), and Ian Hancock (1942).

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