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Michael Ventris

1922 - 1956

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Michael George Francis Ventris, (; 12 July 1922 – 6 September 1956) was an English architect, classicist and philologist who deciphered Linear B, the ancient Mycenaean Greek script. A student of languages, Ventris had pursued decipherment as a personal vocation since his adolescence. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michael Ventris has received more than 311,255 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Michael Ventris is the 165th most popular architect (down from 157th in 2019), the 1,295th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,268th in 2019) and the 8th most popular British Architect.

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Michael Ventris ranks 165 out of 518. Before him are Ur-Nanshe, Paul Abadie, Fumihiko Maki, David Chipperfield, Mikhail Eisenstein, and Carl Ludvig Engel. After him are Bernard Tschumi, Kisho Kurokawa, Jacques-François Blondel, Carl Ritter von Ghega, Ernst Neufert, and Günter Behnisch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Michael Ventris ranks 109. Before him are Carl Reiner, Egon Bahr, Ferenc Deák, Miloš Jakeš, Eleanor Parker, and Veronica Lake. After him are Clair Cameron Patterson, Serge Reggiani, Yuri Knorozov, Günter Behnisch, Paul Marcinkus, and Kim Hunter. Among people deceased in 1956, Michael Ventris ranks 59. Before him are Otto Schmidt, Max Emmerich, Drastamat Kanayan, Thomas J. Watson, Pío Baroja, and Josep Puig i Cadafalch. After him are Nikolaj Velimirović, Elpidio Quirino, Reşat Nuri Güntekin, Miklós Nyiszli, Mir Jafar Baghirov, and Alexander Korda.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Michael Ventris ranks 1,295 out of 8,785. Before him are Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773), Albert Hammond (1944), Branwell Brontë (1817), David Prowse (1935), Kate Beckinsale (1973), and Marina Berti (1924). After him are Thomas Cavalier-Smith (1942), John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute (1713), John Wilkins (1614), Joseph Boxhall (1884), Saint Malachy (1094), and William Booth (1829).

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Among ARCHITECTS In United Kingdom

Among architects born in United Kingdom, Michael Ventris ranks 8. Before him are Christopher Wren (1632), James Stirling (1926), Inigo Jones (1573), Ebenezer Howard (1850), Robert Adam (1728), and David Chipperfield (1953). After him are Joseph Paxton (1803), John Nash (1752), Archibald Leitch (1865), William Kent (1685), Ralph Erskine (1914), and Augustus Pugin (1812).

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