ANTHROPOLOGIST

Mary Leakey

1913 - 1996

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Mary Douglas Leakey, FBA (née Nicol, 6 February 1913 – 9 December 1996) was a British paleoanthropologist who discovered the first fossilised Proconsul skull, an extinct ape which is now believed to be ancestral to humans. She also discovered the robust Zinjanthropus skull at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, eastern Africa. For much of her career she worked with her husband, Louis Leakey, at Olduvai Gorge, where they uncovered fossils of ancient hominines and the earliest hominins, as well as the stone tools produced by the latter group. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mary Leakey has received more than 584,314 page views. Her biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Mary Leakey is the 19th most popular anthropologist (up from 21st in 2019), the 1,283rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,159th in 2019) and the 7th most popular British Anthropologist.

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Mary Leakey ranks 19 out of 93. Before her are Knud Rasmussen, Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, Eugène Dubois, E. E. Evans-Pritchard, Edward T. Hall, and Mary Douglas. After her are Marc Augé, Victor Turner, Cheikh Anta Diop, Marshall Sahlins, A. L. Kroeber, and Ann Dunham.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Mary Leakey ranks 91. Before her are Eddie Constantine, Haxhi Lleshi, Alexander Pokryshkin, Pinetop Perkins, Heinz Kohut, and Pierre Werner. After her are Franck Pourcel, Alexander Marinesko, Willi Hennig, Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark, Georgy Flyorov, and Álvaro Cunhal. Among people deceased in 1996, Mary Leakey ranks 76. Before her are Toru Takemitsu, Nguyễn Hữu Thọ, Mieczysław Weinberg, Michel Debré, Pavel Sudoplatov, and Albrecht, Duke of Bavaria. After her are Karl Rappan, Muhammad al-Badr, Stavros Niarchos, Albert R. Broccoli, Zeki Müren, and Karl Frenzel.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Mary Leakey ranks 1,283 out of 8,785. Before her are Alexander of Hales (1175), David Byron (1947), Mark Sykes (1879), Shirley Bassey (1937), Thomas Gresham (1519), and Edward Lear (1812). After her are Alexander I of Scotland (1078), Barbara Cartland (1901), John Horton Conway (1937), Clive Owen (1964), Martin Frobisher (1535), and Julian Glover (1935).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among anthropologists born in United Kingdom, Mary Leakey ranks 7. Before her are James George Frazer (1854), Jane Goodall (1934), Edward Burnett Tylor (1832), Gregory Bateson (1904), Alfred Radcliffe-Brown (1881), and E. E. Evans-Pritchard (1902). After her are Victor Turner (1920), Edmund Leach (1910), Jack Goody (1919), Ashley Montagu (1905), Marilyn Strathern (1941), and Hugh Falconer (1808).

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