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Maya Lin

1959 - Today

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Maya Ying Lin (born October 5, 1959) is an American designer and sculptor. In 1981, while an undergraduate at Yale University, she achieved national recognition when she won a national design competition for the planned Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.Lin has designed numerous memorials, public and private buildings, landscapes, and sculptures. Although best known for historical memorials, she is also known for environmentally themed works, which often address environmental decline. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maya Lin has received more than 1,619,785 page views. Her biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Maya Lin is the 459th most popular architect (down from 418th in 2019), the 11,399th most popular biography from United States (down from 11,253rd in 2019) and the 32nd most popular American Architect.

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  • 39.21

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  • 25

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  • 2.19

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Maya Lin ranks 459 out of 424Before her are John Russell Pope, Bjarke Ingels, Andrew Jackson Downing, Gülsün Sağlamer, Einari Teräsvirta, and Nora Stanton Barney. After her are Herbert Baker, William Adam, John Douglas, Charles Correa, Marco Casagrande, and Luigi Negri.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Maya Lin ranks 486Before her are Mark Romanek, Edwyn Collins, Arto Härkönen, Jon Oliva, Danny Ainge, and Alessandro Andrei. After her are Georgi Dimitrov, Tom Egeland, Mike Coughlan, Linda Emond, Fernando Álvez, and Eiríkur Hauksson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Maya Lin ranks 11,399 out of 18,182Before her are Ontronik Khachaturian (1975), James Gleick (1954), LaMarcus Aldridge (1985), Forrest J Ackerman (1916), Steven Strait (1986), and George Walsh (1889). After her are Alice White (1904), Christopher Cousins (1960), Lynn Whitfield (1953), Ted Demme (1963), Harry B. Gray (1935), and Twiggy Ramirez (1971).

Among ARCHITECTS In United States

Among architects born in United States, Maya Lin ranks 32Before her are Alfred Mosher Butts (1899), Henry Hobson Richardson (1838), Robert A. M. Stern (1939), Cass Gilbert (1859), John Russell Pope (1874), and Andrew Jackson Downing (1815). After her are Billy Casper (1931).