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John Soane

1753 - 1837

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Sir John Soane (; né Soan; 10 September 1753 – 20 January 1837) was an English architect who specialised in the Neo-Classical style. The son of a bricklayer, he rose to the top of his profession, becoming professor of architecture at the Royal Academy and an official architect to the Office of Works. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Soane has received more than 537,596 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). John Soane is the 363rd most popular architect (down from 307th in 2019), the 2,967th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,469th in 2019) and the 21st most popular British Architect.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, John Soane ranks 363 out of 518. Before him are Lars Sonck, Peter Joseph Lenné, Juan de Villanueva, Fazlur Rahman Khan, Francesco Laparelli, and Wang Shu. After him are Moisei Ginzburg, Tylman van Gameren, Christoph Dientzenhofer, Rudolf Wolters, Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah, and Theodor Fischer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1753, John Soane ranks 35. Before him are Évariste de Parny, Nicolas Dalayrac, Andrew Bell, Edmund Randolph, Laurynas Gucevičius, and Fyodor Alekseyev. After him are William Nicholson, Thomas Bewick, Bartolina Sisa, Edward Pigott, François Levaillant, and Nikolay Lvov. Among people deceased in 1837, John Soane ranks 36. Before him are Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus, Louis-Sébastien Lenormand, Valentino Fioravanti, Alexander Bestuzhev, Agustín Eyzaguirre, and Herman of Alaska. After him are Diego Portales, Princess Louise Eleonore of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Étienne-Gaspard Robert, Prince Frederick of Hesse-Kassel, Pavel Schilling, and Joseph Grimaldi.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Soane ranks 2,967 out of 8,785. Before him are John Christopher (1922), Andy Cole (1971), Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin (1645), Nik Kershaw (1958), Charles Dawson (1864), and Frederick Spencer, 4th Earl Spencer (1798). After him are Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset (1436), Amy Robsart (1532), Philip Henry Gosse (1810), Karen Spärck Jones (1935), Robert Knox (1791), and Anthony Phillips (1951).

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Among ARCHITECTS In United Kingdom

Among architects born in United Kingdom, John Soane ranks 21. Before him are Glenn Murcutt (1936), Charles Barry (1795), John Vanbrugh (1664), Edwin Lutyens (1869), Thomas Telford (1757), and Charles Cameron (1746). After him are Capability Brown (1716), Frederick Catherwood (1799), Nora Stanton Barney (1883), Carlos Raúl Villanueva (1900), Peter Cook (1936), and Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington (1694).

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