1901 - 1978
Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901 – November 15, 1978) was an American cultural anthropologist who featured frequently as an author and speaker in the mass media during the 1960s and the 1970s.She earned her bachelor's degree at Barnard College of Columbia University and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia. Mead served as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1975.Mead was a communicator of anthropology in modern American and Western culture and was often controversial as an academic. Her reports detailing the attitudes towards sex in South Pacific and Southeast Asian traditional cultures influenced the 1960s sexual revolution. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Margaret Mead has received more than 2,795,067 page views. Her biography is available in 66 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 64 in 2019). Margaret Mead is the 7th most popular anthropologist (down from 4th in 2019), the 339th most popular biography from United States (up from 368th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular American Anthropologist.
Margaret Mead is most famous for her work in cultural anthropology. She was one of the first anthropologists to study different cultures around the world. Mead's most famous work is "Coming of Age in Samoa" which she published in 1928.
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Among anthropologists, Margaret Mead ranks 7 out of 69. Before her are Claude Lévi-Strauss, Bronisław Malinowski, Edward Burnett Tylor, James George Frazer, Lewis H. Morgan, and Jane Goodall. After her are Ruth Benedict, Franz Boas, Paul Broca, Clifford Geertz, Gregory Bateson, and Eugène Dubois.
1908 - 2009
HPI: 75.47
Rank: 1
1884 - 1942
HPI: 71.55
Rank: 2
1832 - 1917
HPI: 69.65
Rank: 3
1854 - 1941
HPI: 69.50
Rank: 4
1818 - 1881
HPI: 68.86
Rank: 5
1934 - Present
HPI: 68.73
Rank: 6
1901 - 1978
HPI: 68.72
Rank: 7
1887 - 1948
HPI: 66.41
Rank: 8
1858 - 1942
HPI: 66.39
Rank: 9
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
Among people born in 1901, Margaret Mead ranks 25. Before her are Paul of Greece, Vittorio De Sica, André Malraux, Princess Märtha of Sweden, Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, and Joaquín Rodrigo. After her are Jean Dubuffet, Simon Kuznets, Max Euwe, Andrey Vlasov, Milton H. Erickson, and Witold Pilecki. Among people deceased in 1978, Margaret Mead ranks 13. Before her are Jacques Brel, Santiago Bernabéu Yeste, Giorgio de Chirico, Adolf Dassler, Mohammed Daoud Khan, and Ramón Mercader. After her are Manne Siegbahn, Anastas Mikoyan, Jim Jones, Umberto Nobile, Ronnie Peterson, and Ricardo Zamora.
1901 - 1964
HPI: 70.62
Rank: 19
1901 - 1974
HPI: 69.92
Rank: 20
1901 - 1976
HPI: 69.17
Rank: 21
1901 - 1954
HPI: 69.03
Rank: 22
1901 - 2004
HPI: 68.81
Rank: 23
1901 - 1999
HPI: 68.75
Rank: 24
1901 - 1978
HPI: 68.72
Rank: 25
1901 - 1985
HPI: 68.03
Rank: 26
1901 - 1985
HPI: 67.97
Rank: 27
1901 - 1981
HPI: 67.70
Rank: 28
1901 - 1946
HPI: 67.49
Rank: 29
1901 - 1980
HPI: 67.48
Rank: 30
1901 - 1948
HPI: 66.84
Rank: 31
1929 - 1978
HPI: 71.11
Rank: 7
1895 - 1978
HPI: 70.31
Rank: 8
1888 - 1978
HPI: 70.07
Rank: 9
1900 - 1978
HPI: 69.61
Rank: 10
1909 - 1978
HPI: 69.56
Rank: 11
1913 - 1978
HPI: 69.35
Rank: 12
1901 - 1978
HPI: 68.72
Rank: 13
1886 - 1978
HPI: 68.34
Rank: 14
1895 - 1978
HPI: 67.31
Rank: 15
1931 - 1978
HPI: 67.28
Rank: 16
1885 - 1978
HPI: 66.86
Rank: 17
1944 - 1978
HPI: 66.38
Rank: 18
1901 - 1978
HPI: 65.91
Rank: 19
Among people born in United States, Margaret Mead ranks 339 out of 18,182. Before her are Sandra Bullock (1964), John Bardeen (1908), Bill Murray (1950), James Fenimore Cooper (1789), Truman Capote (1924), and Joseph Stiglitz (1943). After her are Ella Fitzgerald (1917), Dick Cheney (1941), Jack Ruby (1911), Pete Conrad (1930), Jared Leto (1971), and Susan Sontag (1933).
1964 - Present
HPI: 68.80
Rank: 333
1908 - 1991
HPI: 68.77
Rank: 334
1950 - Present
HPI: 68.76
Rank: 335
1789 - 1851
HPI: 68.75
Rank: 336
1924 - 1984
HPI: 68.75
Rank: 337
1943 - Present
HPI: 68.72
Rank: 338
1901 - 1978
HPI: 68.72
Rank: 339
1917 - 1996
HPI: 68.71
Rank: 340
1941 - Present
HPI: 68.71
Rank: 341
1911 - 1967
HPI: 68.71
Rank: 342
1930 - 1999
HPI: 68.70
Rank: 343
1971 - Present
HPI: 68.69
Rank: 344
1933 - 2004
HPI: 68.67
Rank: 345
Among anthropologists born in United States, Margaret Mead ranks 2. Before her are Lewis H. Morgan (1818). After her are Ruth Benedict (1887), Clifford Geertz (1926), A. L. Kroeber (1876), Edward T. Hall (1914), Marvin Harris (1927), Leslie White (1900), Marshall Sahlins (1930), Ann Dunham (1942), Henry Fairfield Osborn (1857), and John Lloyd Stephens (1805).
1818 - 1881
HPI: 68.86
Rank: 1
1901 - 1978
HPI: 68.72
Rank: 2
1887 - 1948
HPI: 66.41
Rank: 3
1926 - 2006
HPI: 65.53
Rank: 4
1876 - 1960
HPI: 58.52
Rank: 5
1914 - 2009
HPI: 58.32
Rank: 6
1927 - 2001
HPI: 56.25
Rank: 7
1900 - 1971
HPI: 55.81
Rank: 8
1930 - 2021
HPI: 55.18
Rank: 9
1942 - 1995
HPI: 54.70
Rank: 10
1857 - 1935
HPI: 52.88
Rank: 11
1805 - 1852
HPI: 52.32
Rank: 12