1879 - 1933
Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen (; 7 June 1879 – 21 December 1933) was a Greenlandic-Danish polar explorer and anthropologist. He has been called the "father of Eskimology" (now often known as Inuit Studies or Greenlandic and Arctic Studies) and was the first European to cross the Northwest Passage via dog sled. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Knud Rasmussen has received more than 352,333 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Knud Rasmussen is the 16th most popular anthropologist (up from 17th in 2019), the most popular biography from Greenland and the most popular Anthropologist.
Knud Rasmussen was a Danish explorer who lived from 1879 to 1933. He is most famous for his explorations of the Canadian Arctic and Greenland, and his contributions to the understanding of the Inuit people.
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Among anthropologists, Knud Rasmussen ranks 16 out of 69. Before him are Paul Broca, Clifford Geertz, Gregory Bateson, Eugène Dubois, Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, and E. E. Evans-Pritchard. After him are A. L. Kroeber, Edward T. Hall, Mary Douglas, Victor Turner, Mary Leakey, and Richard Leakey.
1824 - 1880
HPI: 65.72
Rank: 10
1926 - 2006
HPI: 65.53
Rank: 11
1904 - 1980
HPI: 64.94
Rank: 12
1858 - 1940
HPI: 61.52
Rank: 13
1881 - 1955
HPI: 61.52
Rank: 14
1902 - 1973
HPI: 59.52
Rank: 15
1879 - 1933
HPI: 59.51
Rank: 16
1876 - 1960
HPI: 58.52
Rank: 17
1914 - 2009
HPI: 58.32
Rank: 18
1921 - 2007
HPI: 58.32
Rank: 19
1920 - 1983
HPI: 58.05
Rank: 20
1913 - 1996
HPI: 57.89
Rank: 21
1944 - 2022
HPI: 56.96
Rank: 22
Among people born in 1879, Knud Rasmussen ranks 44. Before him are Friedrich Adler, Léon Jouhaux, Ali of Hejaz, Shunroku Hata, Boris Savinkov, and Huda Sha'arawi. After him are Margaret Sanger, Wanda Landowska, William Beveridge, Paul Poiret, Max Schreck, and Edward Steichen. Among people deceased in 1933, Knud Rasmussen ranks 22. Before him are Stefan George, Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia, Paul Ehrenfest, Erhard Heiden, Anatoly Lunacharsky, and Albert Calmette. After him are Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi, Archduke Charles Stephen of Austria, Henry Royce, Francesc Macià, Louis Comfort Tiffany, and Hans Vaihinger.
1879 - 1960
HPI: 60.19
Rank: 38
1879 - 1954
HPI: 60.05
Rank: 39
1879 - 1935
HPI: 59.93
Rank: 40
1879 - 1962
HPI: 59.90
Rank: 41
1879 - 1925
HPI: 59.85
Rank: 42
1879 - 1947
HPI: 59.75
Rank: 43
1879 - 1933
HPI: 59.51
Rank: 44
1879 - 1966
HPI: 59.50
Rank: 45
1879 - 1959
HPI: 59.42
Rank: 46
1879 - 1963
HPI: 59.11
Rank: 47
1879 - 1944
HPI: 58.97
Rank: 48
1879 - 1936
HPI: 58.65
Rank: 49
1879 - 1973
HPI: 58.57
Rank: 50
1868 - 1933
HPI: 61.75
Rank: 16
1866 - 1933
HPI: 61.12
Rank: 17
1880 - 1933
HPI: 61.02
Rank: 18
1901 - 1933
HPI: 60.84
Rank: 19
1875 - 1933
HPI: 60.62
Rank: 20
1863 - 1933
HPI: 60.32
Rank: 21
1879 - 1933
HPI: 59.51
Rank: 22
1873 - 1933
HPI: 59.06
Rank: 23
1860 - 1933
HPI: 58.80
Rank: 24
1863 - 1933
HPI: 58.57
Rank: 25
1859 - 1933
HPI: 58.55
Rank: 26
1848 - 1933
HPI: 58.46
Rank: 27
1852 - 1933
HPI: 58.41
Rank: 28
Among people born in Greenland, Knud Rasmussen ranks 1 out of 11. After him are Henning Jakob Henrik Lund (1875), Rasmus Lerdorf (1968), Jonathan Motzfeldt (1938), Kim Kielsen (1966), Lars-Emil Johansen (1946), Jesper Grønkjær (1977), Kuupik Kleist (1958), Aleqa Hammond (1965), Hans Enoksen (1956), and Naja Marie Aidt (1963).
1879 - 1933
HPI: 59.51
Rank: 1
1875 - 1948
HPI: 49.91
Rank: 2
1968 - Present
HPI: 49.65
Rank: 3
1938 - 2010
HPI: 48.64
Rank: 4
1966 - Present
HPI: 47.19
Rank: 5
1946 - Present
HPI: 44.70
Rank: 6
1977 - Present
HPI: 44.23
Rank: 7
1958 - Present
HPI: 43.79
Rank: 8
1965 - Present
HPI: 43.55
Rank: 9
1956 - Present
HPI: 43.38
Rank: 10
1963 - Present
HPI: 41.76
Rank: 11
Among anthropologists born in Greenland, Knud Rasmussen ranks 1.