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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 382,278 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Nicholas Hawksmoor is the 427th most popular architect (down from 399th in 2019), the 3,982nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,001st in 2019) and the 31st most popular British Architect.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Nicholas Hawksmoor ranks 427 out of 424. Before him are Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza, Charles Robert Cockerell, Max Taut, Alejandro Aravena, Carlos Raúl Villanueva, and Patricia Urquiola. After him are Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Harry Vardon, Enric Miralles, Gunnar Birkerts, James Gibbs, and B. V. Doshi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1661, Nicholas Hawksmoor ranks 22. Before him are Giacomo Antonio Perti, Fyodor Apraksin, Charles Rollin, Georg Joseph Kamel, Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, and Daniel Marot.  Among people deceased in 1736, Nicholas Hawksmoor ranks 17. Before him are Theophan Prokopovich, Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, Caspar van Wittel, Emanuele d'Astorga, António Manoel de Vilhena, and Christian, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Nicholas Hawksmoor ranks 3,982 out of 7,765. Before him are Susanna Clarke (1959), Timothy Garton Ash (1955), Eric Brook (1907), Barbara Pym (1913), Nick Frost (1972), and Walter Burley (1275). After him are Naomi Scott (1993), Gary Daniels (1963), Richard Llewellyn (1906), Emma Kirkby (1949), Allan Clarke (1942), and Maxim (1967).

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Among ARCHITECTS In United Kingdom

Among architects born in United Kingdom, Nicholas Hawksmoor ranks 31. Before him are Edward Blore (1787), Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington (1694), Peter Cook (1936), Kenneth Frampton (1930), Charles Robert Cockerell (1788), and Carlos Raúl Villanueva (1900). After him are Benjamin Henry Latrobe (1764), James Gibbs (1682), Richard Knill Freeman (1840), Joseph Pickford (1736), Benjamin Mountfort (1825), and James Wyatt (1746).

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