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Joseph Paxton

1803 - 1865

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Sir Joseph Paxton (3 August 1803 – 8 June 1865) was an English gardener, architect, engineer and Liberal Member of Parliament. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Paxton has received more than 491,945 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Joseph Paxton is the 173rd most popular architect (down from 156th in 2019), the 1,355th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,267th in 2019) and the 9th most popular British Architect.

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  • 63.06

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.61

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.82

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Joseph Paxton ranks 173 out of 518. Before him are Kisho Kurokawa, Jacques-François Blondel, Carl Ritter von Ghega, Ernst Neufert, Günter Behnisch, and William Le Baron Jenney. After him are Hassan Fathy, Charles Eames, Jan Gehl, Aristobulus of Cassandreia, Gio Ponti, and Eduardo Souto de Moura.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1803, Joseph Paxton ranks 25. Before him are Princess Alexandrine of Prussia, Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville, John Ericsson, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Muhammad IV of Morocco, and Jacques Charles François Sturm. After him are Henry Darcy, Alexander Georg von Bunge, John Sutter, Robert Stephenson, Henri Herz, and Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff. Among people deceased in 1865, Joseph Paxton ranks 26. Before him are Giuditta Pasta, Kunisada, Alexandros Mavrokordatos, Constant Troyon, George Phillips Bond, and Shigechiyo Izumi. After him are James Barry, Antoine Wiertz, Sebastián Iradier, John Lindley, Andrés Bello, and Princess Maria Ferdinanda of Saxony.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Joseph Paxton ranks 1,355 out of 8,785. Before him are William Prout (1785), Peter Burke (1937), Gideon Mantell (1790), Ted Hughes (1930), Lennox Lewis (1965), and Jeremy Corbyn (1949). After him are Alexander McQueen (1969), Eileen Essell (1922), Gary Brooker (1945), George Cayley (1773), Geoff Hurst (1941), and John Edensor Littlewood (1885).

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Among ARCHITECTS In United Kingdom

Among architects born in United Kingdom, Joseph Paxton ranks 9. Before him are James Stirling (1926), Inigo Jones (1573), Ebenezer Howard (1850), Robert Adam (1728), David Chipperfield (1953), and Michael Ventris (1922). After him are John Nash (1752), Archibald Leitch (1865), William Kent (1685), Ralph Erskine (1914), Augustus Pugin (1812), and Glenn Murcutt (1936).

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