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Julia Morgan

1872 - 1957

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Julia Morgan (January 20, 1872 – February 2, 1957) was an American architect and engineer. She designed more than 700 buildings in California during a long and prolific career. She is best known for her work on Hearst Castle in San Simeon, California.Morgan was the first woman to be admitted to the architecture program at l'École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and the first woman architect licensed in California. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Julia Morgan has received more than 689,229 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Julia Morgan is the 375th most popular architect (up from 404th in 2019), the 5,942nd most popular biography from United States (up from 8,363rd in 2019) and the 23rd most popular American Architect.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Julia Morgan ranks 375 out of 424Before her are Christoph Dientzenhofer, Tylman van Gameren, Carl Humann, Edward Blore, Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, and Wang Shu. After her are Yvonne Farrell, Justus Dahinden, Massimiliano Fuksas, Kadir Topbaş, Max Berg, and Jean-Baptiste Vallin de la Mothe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1872, Julia Morgan ranks 130Before her are Maude Adams, Gustave Sandras, Edward Wilson, Ahmed Lutfi el-Sayed, John Arthur Jarvis, and Forest Ray Moulton. After her are Charles Gmelin, Paul-Émile Janson, Georg Schnéevoigt, Walter Wild, Oswaldo Cruz, and Kristine Bonnevie. Among people deceased in 1957, Julia Morgan ranks 154Before her are Viggo Larsen, Walter Jakobsson, Guillermo Saavedra, Adeodato Giovanni Piazza, Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, and Piero Carini. After her are Aleksey Remizov, Ted Meredith, Gaston Aumoitte, Ernesto Chaparro, Robert Lowie, and Mikhail Gnessin.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Julia Morgan ranks 5,942 out of 18,182Before her are George Eads (1967), Suzy Amis Cameron (1962), James Eckhouse (1955), Stephanie Seymour (1968), Francis Spellman (1889), and Ethelda Bleibtrey (1902). After her are Joe Lieberman (1942), Elmer Drew Merrill (1876), Sonny Clark (1931), James Blish (1921), Sheree J. Wilson (1958), and James Buchanan Duke (1856).

Among ARCHITECTS In United States

Among architects born in United States, Julia Morgan ranks 23Before her are Michael Graves (1934), Charles Jencks (1939), Thom Mayne (1944), Steven Holl (1947), Sixto Durán Ballén (1921), and Daniel Burnham (1846). After her are Walter Burley Griffin (1876), Robert Moses (1888), Alfred Mosher Butts (1899), Henry Hobson Richardson (1838), Robert A. M. Stern (1939), and Cass Gilbert (1859).