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 515,798 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Paul Broca is the 10th most popular anthropologist, the 641st most popular biography from France (up from 647th 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 James George Frazer, Lewis H. Morgan, Jane Goodall, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Franz Boas. After him are Clifford Geertz, Gregory Bateson, Eugène Dubois, Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, E. E. Evans-Pritchard, and Knud Rasmussen.
1854 - 1941
HPI: 69.50
Rank: 4
1818 - 1881
HPI: 68.86
Rank: 5
1934 - Present
HPI: 68.73
Rank: 6
1901 - 1978
HPI: 68.72
Rank: 7
1887 - 1948
HPI: 66.41
Rank: 8
1858 - 1942
HPI: 66.39
Rank: 9
1824 - 1880
HPI: 65.72
Rank: 10
1926 - 2006
HPI: 65.53
Rank: 11
1904 - 1980
HPI: 64.94
Rank: 12
1858 - 1940
HPI: 61.52
Rank: 13
1881 - 1955
HPI: 61.52
Rank: 14
1902 - 1973
HPI: 59.52
Rank: 15
1879 - 1933
HPI: 59.51
Rank: 16
Among people born in 1824, Paul Broca ranks 9. Before him are Anton Bruckner, Gustav Kirchhoff, William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Maria Alexandrovna, Jean-Léon Gérôme, and Eugène Boudin. After him are Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Marie Duplessis, Wilkie Collins, Antoine, Duke of Montpensier, Stonewall Jackson, and Carl Reinecke. 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, Emperor Norton, William Lassell, Ned Kelly, Anselm Feuerbach, Michel Chasles, and Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein.
1824 - 1896
HPI: 74.74
Rank: 3
1824 - 1887
HPI: 74.38
Rank: 4
1824 - 1907
HPI: 69.64
Rank: 5
1824 - 1880
HPI: 68.63
Rank: 6
1824 - 1904
HPI: 67.18
Rank: 7
1824 - 1898
HPI: 67.13
Rank: 8
1824 - 1880
HPI: 65.72
Rank: 9
1824 - 1898
HPI: 64.61
Rank: 10
1824 - 1847
HPI: 62.42
Rank: 11
1824 - 1889
HPI: 61.85
Rank: 12
1824 - 1890
HPI: 61.12
Rank: 13
1824 - 1863
HPI: 60.60
Rank: 14
1824 - 1910
HPI: 60.36
Rank: 15
1821 - 1880
HPI: 79.06
Rank: 1
1819 - 1880
HPI: 77.67
Rank: 2
1824 - 1880
HPI: 68.63
Rank: 3
1819 - 1880
HPI: 67.58
Rank: 4
1824 - 1880
HPI: 65.72
Rank: 5
1835 - 1880
HPI: 65.20
Rank: 6
1818 - 1880
HPI: 62.94
Rank: 7
1799 - 1880
HPI: 61.29
Rank: 8
1855 - 1880
HPI: 60.73
Rank: 9
1829 - 1880
HPI: 59.12
Rank: 10
1793 - 1880
HPI: 57.74
Rank: 11
1829 - 1880
HPI: 56.90
Rank: 12
Among people born in France, Paul Broca ranks 641 out of 6,011. Before him are Élisabeth of France (1764), Jean Parisot de Valette (1494), Albert Fert (1938), Alfred Jarry (1873), Alain Resnais (1922), and Daniel Auber (1782). After him are Siméon Denis Poisson (1781), Éliphas Lévi (1810), Jean Jaurès (1859), Clotilde (475), Lazare Carnot (1753), and Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774).
1764 - 1794
HPI: 65.78
Rank: 635
1494 - 1568
HPI: 65.77
Rank: 636
1938 - Present
HPI: 65.76
Rank: 637
1873 - 1907
HPI: 65.76
Rank: 638
1922 - 2014
HPI: 65.73
Rank: 639
1782 - 1871
HPI: 65.73
Rank: 640
1824 - 1880
HPI: 65.72
Rank: 641
1781 - 1840
HPI: 65.72
Rank: 642
1810 - 1875
HPI: 65.71
Rank: 643
1859 - 1914
HPI: 65.71
Rank: 644
475 - 545
HPI: 65.70
Rank: 645
1753 - 1823
HPI: 65.70
Rank: 646
1774 - 1862
HPI: 65.70
Rank: 647
Among anthropologists born in France, Paul Broca ranks 1. After him are Marc Augé (1935), Jacques de Morgan (1857), Pierre Clastres (1934), Marcel Griaule (1898), Georges Vacher de Lapouge (1854), Maurice Godelier (1934), Alfred Sauvy (1898), Georges Balandier (1920), Marcellin Boule (1861), and Françoise Héritier (1933).
1824 - 1880
HPI: 65.72
Rank: 1
1935 - 2023
HPI: 55.25
Rank: 2
1857 - 1924
HPI: 55.15
Rank: 3
1934 - 1977
HPI: 53.87
Rank: 4
1898 - 1956
HPI: 52.57
Rank: 5
1854 - 1936
HPI: 51.29
Rank: 6
1934 - Present
HPI: 51.12
Rank: 7
1898 - 1990
HPI: 50.36
Rank: 8
1920 - 2016
HPI: 47.98
Rank: 9
1861 - 1942
HPI: 45.41
Rank: 10
1933 - 2017
HPI: 45.03
Rank: 11