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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 492,313 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). John Soane is the 308th most popular architect (up from 315th in 2019), the 2,475th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,476th in 2019) and the 16th most popular British Architect.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, John Soane ranks 308 out of 424. Before him are Sixto Durán Ballén, Ustad Ahmad Lahori, Ineni, Galeazzo Alessi, Ernst Ziller, and José Benito de Churriguera. After him are Georges Candilis, Juan Bautista de Toledo, Henri Dupuy de Lôme, Benedetto Antelami, David Chipperfield, and Dominique Perrault.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1753, John Soane ranks 26. Before him are Countess Palatine Maria Anna of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers, Ludwig von Cobenzl, Matvei Platov, Princess Joséphine of Lorraine, and William Nicholson. After him are Fyodor Alekseyev, Évariste de Parny, Edmund Randolph, Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires, Thomas Bewick, and Nicolas Dalayrac. Among people deceased in 1837, John Soane ranks 33. Before him are Marguerite Gérard, François-Xavier Fabre, Prince Frederick of Hesse-Kassel, John Latham, Yuri Lisyansky, and Alexander Bestuzhev. After him are Princess Louise Eleonore of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Valentino Fioravanti, Joseph Grimaldi, Étienne-Gaspard Robert, Diego Portales, and Ayub Shah Durrani.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Soane ranks 2,475 out of 7,765. Before him are Graham McTavish (1961), Roger Williams (1603), Peter Gethin (1940), William Hope Hodgson (1877), Eleanor Hibbert (1906), and Thor Vilhjálmsson (1925). After him are Mary McAleese (1951), Edith Durham (1863), John Mahoney (1940), John Walker (1781), G. I. Taylor (1886), and Jamie Oliver (1975).

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Among ARCHITECTS In United Kingdom

Among architects born in United Kingdom, John Soane ranks 16. Before him are Glenn Murcutt (1936), Archibald Leitch (1865), Augustus Pugin (1812), Charles Barry (1795), William Kent (1685), and John Vanbrugh (1664). After him are David Chipperfield (1953), Thomas Telford (1757), Edwin Lutyens (1869), Ralph Erskine (1914), Charles Cameron (1746), and Frederick Catherwood (1799).

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