ARCHAEOLOGIST

Kathleen Kenyon

1906 - 1978

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Dame Kathleen Mary Kenyon, (5 January 1906 – 24 August 1978) was a British archaeologist of Neolithic culture in the Fertile Crescent. She led excavations of Tell es-Sultan, the site of ancient Jericho, from 1952 to 1958, and has been called one of the most influential archaeologists of the 20th century. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kathleen Kenyon has received more than 192,419 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Kathleen Kenyon is the 79th most popular archaeologist (down from 69th in 2019), the 2,882nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,608th in 2019) and the 12th most popular British Archaeologist.

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  • 50.23

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.94

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Kathleen Kenyon ranks 79 out of 151. Before her are Sven Nilsson, William F. Albright, Dragutin Gorjanović-Kramberger, Sylvanus Morley, Israel Finkelstein, and Halet Çambel. After her are Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae, Johann Andreas Wagner, Charles Dawson, Ernesto Schiaparelli, Christiane Desroches Noblecourt, and J. P. Mallory.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Kathleen Kenyon ranks 227. Before her are Luo Ruiqing, Tamara Khanum, Rudolf Krčil, Bart Bok, Eleanor Hibbert, and Olga Taussky-Todd. After her are Frank H. Netter, Harri Larva, Johnny Hodges, Knut Kroon, Alexander Rou, and Herbert Wehner. Among people deceased in 1978, Kathleen Kenyon ranks 150. Before her are Joseph Colombo, Mária Mednyánszky, James B. Conant, Nico Diederichs, Luo Ruiqing, and Theo Lingen. After her are Zenta Mauriņa, Gordon Matta-Clark, Alfred Müller-Armack, Eric Frank Russell, Leigh Brackett, and Léon Damas.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Kathleen Kenyon ranks 2,882 out of 8,785. Before her are Sienna Guillory (1975), Stella McCartney (1971), Alfred Tysoe (1874), Jonathan Bailey (1988), Charles Cameron (1746), and Michael Morpurgo (1943). After her are Cosmo Duff-Gordon (1862), Tim Pigott-Smith (1946), Anita Brookner (1928), Magnus Erlendsson, Earl of Orkney (1075), Eduardo Paolozzi (1924), and William Burnside (1852).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among archaeologists born in United Kingdom, Kathleen Kenyon ranks 12. Before her are John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury (1834), Leonard Woolley (1880), Max Mallowan (1904), Colin Renfrew (1937), Robert Broom (1866), and Alan Gardiner (1879). After her are Charles Dawson (1864), Dorothy Garrod (1892), John Evans (1823), John Marshall (1876), John O. Westwood (1805), and James Mellaart (1925).

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