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Nicholas Hawksmoor

1661 - 1736

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Nicholas Hawksmoor (c. 1661 – 25 March 1736) was an English architect. He was a leading figure of the English Baroque style of architecture in the late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth centuries. Hawksmoor worked alongside the principal architects of the time, Christopher Wren and John Vanbrugh, and contributed to the design of some of the most notable buildings of the period, including St Paul's Cathedral, Wren's City of London churches, Greenwich Hospital, Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nicholas Hawksmoor has received more than 411,508 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Nicholas Hawksmoor is the 460th most popular architect (down from 426th in 2019), the 4,193rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,974th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular British Architect.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Nicholas Hawksmoor ranks 460 out of 518. Before him are Nikolay Lvov, Anastasios Metaxas, Andrei Stackenschneider, Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza, Alexander Wittek, and Ivan Fomin. After him are Kenneth Frampton, Kolyu Ficheto, Gunnar Birkerts, Suad Amiry, Max Taut, and Harry Vardon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1661, Nicholas Hawksmoor ranks 24. Before him are Vladimir Atlasov, Charles Rollin, Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg, Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, Christian Henry, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, and Daniel Marot.  Among people deceased in 1736, Nicholas Hawksmoor ranks 16. Before him are Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, Louise Diane d'Orléans, Caspar van Wittel, René Duguay-Trouin, Emanuele d'Astorga, and António Manoel de Vilhena.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Nicholas Hawksmoor ranks 4,193 out of 8,785. Before him are Jamie Campbell Bower (1988), John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent (1735), Danny Blanchflower (1926), Thomas Bell (1792), Thomas Nashe (1567), and Jim Brown (1908). After him are Nigel Davenport (1928), Andy White (1930), Raymond Gosling (1926), William Nicol (1770), Humza Yousaf (1985), and George Montagu (1751).

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Among ARCHITECTS In United Kingdom

Among architects born in United Kingdom, Nicholas Hawksmoor ranks 32. Before him are Peter Cook (1936), Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington (1694), Edward Blore (1787), Nicholas Grimshaw (1939), Benjamin Henry Latrobe (1764), and Charles Robert Cockerell (1788). After him are Kenneth Frampton (1930), Richard Knill Freeman (1840), James Wyatt (1746), William Burges (1827), Robert Smirke (1780), and Giles Gilbert Scott (1880).

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