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ARCHAEOLOGIST

Margaret Murray

1863 - 1963

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Margaret Alice Murray (13 July 1863 – 13 November 1963) was a British-Indian Egyptologist, archaeologist, anthropologist, historian, and folklorist who was born in India. 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 584,719 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Margaret Murray is the 61st most popular archaeologist (down from 49th in 2019), the 383rd most popular biography from India (down from 333rd in 2019) and the most popular Indian Archaeologist.

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  • 22

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Margaret Murray ranks 61 out of 104Before her are Spyridon Marinatos, Giuseppe Fiorelli, Johan Gunnar Andersson, Halet Çambel, Robert Broom, and Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae. After her are Edward Robinson, Christiane Desroches Noblecourt, William F. Albright, Victor Loret, Heinrich Karl Brugsch, and José Bonaparte.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1863, Margaret Murray ranks 93Before her are Aliagha Shikhlinski, Richard Dehmel, Francis Younghusband, Franz Schalk, Olha Kobylianska, and Black Elk. After her are Edith Durham, Hermann Obrist, Augusto B. Leguía, Jāzeps Vītols, Arabo, and Aleksandr Golovin. Among people deceased in 1963, Margaret Murray ranks 92Before her are Richard Kohn, Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg, Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, Ivan Bek, Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, and Pingali Venkayya. After her are Sophus Nielsen, Vsevolod Ivanov, André Maschinot, Richard Oswald, August Rei, and Julius Edgar Lilienfeld.

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In India

Among people born in India, Margaret Murray ranks 383 out of 1,493Before her are Vikram Sarabhai (1919), Mala Sinha (1936), Anil Kapoor (1956), Vallabha (1479), R. K. Narayan (1906), and Pingali Venkayya (1876). After her are Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay (1894), Aruna Asaf Ali (1909), Rishi Kapoor (1952), Hemu (1501), M. F. Husain (1915), and Kalyan Singh (1932).

Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In India

Among archaeologists born in India, Margaret Murray ranks 1