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Maya Lin

1959 - Today

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Maya Ying Lin (Chinese: 林瓔; born October 5, 1959) is an American architect, designer and sculptor. Born in Athens, Ohio to Chinese immigrants, she attended Yale University to study architecture. In 1981, while still an undergraduate at Yale she achieved national recognition when she won a national design competition for the planned Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. The memorial was designed in the minimalist architectural style, and it attracted controversy upon its release but went on to become influential. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maya Lin has received more than 1,705,870 page views. Her biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Maya Lin is the 495th most popular architect (down from 458th in 2019), the 11,327th most popular biography from United States (up from 11,373rd in 2019) and the 33rd most popular American Architect.

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  • 1.7M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 41.94

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.47

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Maya Lin ranks 495 out of 518. Before her are William Adam, Alfred Mosher Butts, Joseph Pickford, John Russell Pope, Benjamin Mountfort, and Calvert Vaux. After her are Gülsün Sağlamer, Einari Teräsvirta, Herbert Baker, Carme Pigem, Arnstein Arneberg, and Max Abramovitz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Maya Lin ranks 496. Before her are Eren Keskin, John Allen Nelson, Saida Gunba, Edwyn Collins, Hiroshi Soejima, and Shohreh. After her are Lutz Dombrowski, Baselios Cleemis, Andrew Morton, Mike van Diem, Acácio, and Mario Martone.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Maya Lin ranks 11,327 out of 20,380. Before her are Gordon Bell (1934), Herman Cain (1945), John T. Dillon (1876), Chuck Liddell (1969), Paul Burke (1926), and Ernest Tubb (1914). After her are Sam McMurray (1952), Donald Pettit (1955), Lindsey Stirling (1986), Elaine Pagels (1943), Chad Lowe (1968), and Lou Harrison (1917).

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Among ARCHITECTS In United States

Among architects born in United States, Maya Lin ranks 33. Before her are Cass Gilbert (1859), Henry Hobson Richardson (1838), Robert A. M. Stern (1939), Richard Morris Hunt (1827), Alfred Mosher Butts (1899), and John Russell Pope (1874). After her are Max Abramovitz (1908), Andrew Jackson Downing (1815), Marion Mahony Griffin (1871), Charles Bulfinch (1763), Billy Casper (1931), and Alexis Sablone (1986).

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