ARCHAEOLOGIST

Nancy Dupree

1927 - 2017

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Nancy Hatch Dupree (Pashto: نانسي دوپري, romanized: Nansi dupri; October 3, 1927 – September 10, 2017) was an American historian whose work primarily focused on the history of modern Afghanistan. She was the director of the Afghanistan Center at Kabul University and author of five books that she compiled while studying the history of Afghanistan from 1962 until the late 1970s, writing about tourism and history of Bamyan, Kabul, Kandahar, Herat, Mazar-i-Sharif and so on. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nancy Dupree has received more than 106,189 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Nancy Dupree is the 146th most popular archaeologist (down from 132nd in 2019), the 11,965th most popular biography from United States (down from 11,866th in 2019) and the 17th most popular American Archaeologist.

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  • 41.09

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.10

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.07

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Nancy Dupree ranks 146 out of 151. Before her are Bernard Pyne Grenfell, John Garstang, Jale İnan, Churchill Babington, Salima Ikram, and Phillip V. Tobias. After her are Augustus Pitt Rivers, Jacquetta Hawkes, William G. Dever, Barry Cunliffe, and Leonardo López Luján.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Nancy Dupree ranks 460. Before her are Bill McGarry, Ann Gillis, Harry Gallatin, Guy Mitchell, Henri Dirickx, and Prem Nazir. After her are Arnold Wolfendale, Giuseppe Moioli, Hugo Dollheiser, Tim O'Connor, Nan Martin, and Marvin Kaplan. Among people deceased in 2017, Nancy Dupree ranks 575. Before her are Connie Hawkins, Muhal Richard Abrams, Carme Chacón, Ricardo Vidal, Norma McCorvey, and Miguel Ángel Loayza. After her are J. P. Donleavy, Robert Elsie, Udupi Ramachandra Rao, Zdeněk Šreiner, Denis Johnson, and Nicole Bricq.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Nancy Dupree ranks 11,965 out of 20,380. Before her are Vincent Curatola (1953), William Paca (1740), Robert Lighthizer (1947), Mara Wilson (1987), Nancy Carell (1966), and Doug Burgum (1956). After her are Frank Press (1924), Joseph W. Tobin (1952), Dave Sabo (1964), Albert Charles Smith (1906), Hughie Thomasson (1952), and Douglas Crockford (1955).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In United States

Among archaeologists born in United States, Nancy Dupree ranks 17. Before her are Lewis Binford (1932), Robert T. Bakker (1945), Carl Blegen (1887), Stith Thompson (1885), Robert John Braidwood (1907), and Michael D. Coe (1929). After her are William G. Dever (1933).

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