ARCHAEOLOGIST

Margaret Murray

1863 - 1963

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Margaret Alice Murray (13 July 1863 – 13 November 1963) was an Anglo-Indian Egyptologist, archaeologist, anthropologist, historian, and folklorist. The first woman to be appointed as a lecturer in archaeology in the United Kingdom, she worked at University College London (UCL) from 1898 to 1935. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Margaret Murray has received more than 625,937 page views. Her biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Margaret Murray is the 46th most popular archaeologist (up from 61st in 2019), the 285th most popular biography from India (up from 380th in 2019) and the most popular Indian Archaeologist.

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  • 3.16

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Margaret Murray ranks 46 out of 151. Before her are Meritites I, Neferkare Tereru, Leonard Woolley, Giuseppe Fiorelli, Ernst Curtius, and Henri Breuil. After her are Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola, James Henry Breasted, Ami Boué, Paul-Émile Botta, Max Mallowan, and Colin Renfrew.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1863, Margaret Murray ranks 63. Before her are Qasim Amin, Princess Isabella of Bavaria, S. Ansky, Fyodor Sologub, Charles Martin Hall, and Gabriel Pierné. After her are Felix Blumenfeld, Joseph Caillaux, Archduke Leopold Salvator of Austria, Pierina Legnani, Paul Walden, and Paul Héroult. Among people deceased in 1963, Margaret Murray ranks 70. Before her are Fazlollah Zahedi, Berthold, Margrave of Baden, Jacob Gade, Jacques Villon, Sarit Thanarat, and Seth Barnes Nicholson. After her are Ernst Kantorowicz, Rahul Sankrityayan, Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, Richard Kohn, Robert Stroud, and Edith Hamilton.

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In India

Among people born in India, Margaret Murray ranks 285 out of 1,861. Before her are Begum Hazrat Mahal (1820), Ramdhari Singh Dinkar (1908), Ramaswamy Venkataraman (1910), Hemachandra (1089), Shakuntala Devi (1929), and Bismillah Khan (1916). After her are P. V. Narasimha Rao (1921), Alamgir II (1699), Nisargadatta Maharaj (1897), Mohammed Rafi (1924), Madhava of Sangamagrama (1350), and Rahul Sankrityayan (1893).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In India

Among archaeologists born in India, Margaret Murray ranks 1. 

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