1824 - 1880
Pierre Paul Broca (, also UK: , US: , French: [pɔl bʁɔka]; 28 June 1824 – 9 July 1880) was a French physician, anatomist and anthropologist. He is best known for his research on Broca's area, a region of the frontal lobe that is named after him. Broca's area is involved with language. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Broca has received more than 421,004 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Paul Broca is the 10th most popular anthropologist (up from 11th in 2019), the 648th most popular biography from France (up from 707th in 2019) and the most popular French Anthropologist.
Paul Broca is most famous for his discovery of Broca's area, a region of the brain that is responsible for speech production.
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Among anthropologists, Paul Broca ranks 10 out of 69. Before him are Margaret Mead, Franz Boas, Jane Goodall, Clifford Geertz, Lewis H. Morgan, and Ruth Benedict. After him are Gregory Bateson, Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, A. L. Kroeber, Eugène Dubois, Edward T. Hall, and E. E. Evans-Pritchard.
1901 - 1978
HPI: 75.75
Rank: 4
1858 - 1942
HPI: 75.74
Rank: 5
1934 - Present
HPI: 75.70
Rank: 6
1926 - 2006
HPI: 74.07
Rank: 7
1818 - 1881
HPI: 73.98
Rank: 8
1887 - 1948
HPI: 73.78
Rank: 9
1824 - 1880
HPI: 73.74
Rank: 10
1904 - 1980
HPI: 73.18
Rank: 11
1881 - 1955
HPI: 70.98
Rank: 12
1876 - 1960
HPI: 70.44
Rank: 13
1858 - 1940
HPI: 69.94
Rank: 14
1914 - 2009
HPI: 69.17
Rank: 15
1902 - 1973
HPI: 69.08
Rank: 16
Among people born in 1824, Paul Broca ranks 9. Before him are Anton Bruckner, Gustav Kirchhoff, William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Maria Alexandrovna, and Eugène Boudin. After him are Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Wilkie Collins, Pierre Janssen, Marie Duplessis, Carl Reinecke, and Antoine, Duke of Montpensier. Among people deceased in 1880, Paul Broca ranks 5. Before him are Gustave Flaubert, Jacques Offenbach, Maria Alexandrovna, and George Eliot. After him are Henryk Wieniawski, William Lassell, Ned Kelly, Emperor Norton, Anselm Feuerbach, Ole Bull, and Michel Chasles.
1824 - 1896
HPI: 80.41
Rank: 3
1824 - 1887
HPI: 79.73
Rank: 4
1824 - 1907
HPI: 77.83
Rank: 5
1824 - 1904
HPI: 76.41
Rank: 6
1824 - 1880
HPI: 75.36
Rank: 7
1824 - 1898
HPI: 74.63
Rank: 8
1824 - 1880
HPI: 73.74
Rank: 9
1824 - 1898
HPI: 73.09
Rank: 10
1824 - 1889
HPI: 71.52
Rank: 11
1824 - 1907
HPI: 70.77
Rank: 12
1824 - 1847
HPI: 69.72
Rank: 13
1824 - 1910
HPI: 69.52
Rank: 14
1824 - 1890
HPI: 69.50
Rank: 15
1821 - 1880
HPI: 85.08
Rank: 1
1819 - 1880
HPI: 82.74
Rank: 2
1824 - 1880
HPI: 75.36
Rank: 3
1819 - 1880
HPI: 74.39
Rank: 4
1824 - 1880
HPI: 73.74
Rank: 5
1835 - 1880
HPI: 73.59
Rank: 6
1799 - 1880
HPI: 71.84
Rank: 7
1855 - 1880
HPI: 71.72
Rank: 8
1818 - 1880
HPI: 69.68
Rank: 9
1829 - 1880
HPI: 68.98
Rank: 10
1810 - 1880
HPI: 68.50
Rank: 11
1793 - 1880
HPI: 68.03
Rank: 12
Among people born in France, Paul Broca ranks 648 out of 5,234. Before him are Jean-Henri Fabre (1823), René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683), Marin Marais (1656), Oenomaus (-105), Louis Auguste Blanqui (1805), and Paul Doumer (1857). After him are Michel Eugène Chevreul (1786), Albert Fert (1938), Hilary of Poitiers (315), Isabelle Adjani (1955), Édouard Lalo (1823), and Marie-Antoine Carême (1784).
1823 - 1915
HPI: 73.77
Rank: 642
1683 - 1757
HPI: 73.77
Rank: 643
1656 - 1728
HPI: 73.76
Rank: 644
105 BC - 70 BC
HPI: 73.76
Rank: 645
1805 - 1881
HPI: 73.76
Rank: 646
1857 - 1932
HPI: 73.74
Rank: 647
1824 - 1880
HPI: 73.74
Rank: 648
1786 - 1889
HPI: 73.73
Rank: 649
1938 - Present
HPI: 73.72
Rank: 650
315 - 367
HPI: 73.71
Rank: 651
1955 - Present
HPI: 73.65
Rank: 652
1823 - 1892
HPI: 73.65
Rank: 653
1784 - 1833
HPI: 73.64
Rank: 654
Among anthropologists born in France, Paul Broca ranks 1. After him are Marc Augé (1935), Pierre Clastres (1934), Jacques de Morgan (1857), Marcel Griaule (1898), and Alfred Sauvy (1898).
1824 - 1880
HPI: 73.74
Rank: 1
1935 - Present
HPI: 65.79
Rank: 2
1934 - 1977
HPI: 65.05
Rank: 3
1857 - 1924
HPI: 64.70
Rank: 4
1898 - 1956
HPI: 64.02
Rank: 5
1898 - 1990
HPI: 63.10
Rank: 6