ANTHROPOLOGIST

Raymond Dart

1893 - 1988

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Raymond Arthur Dart (4 February 1893 – 22 November 1988) was an Australian anatomist and anthropologist, best known for his involvement in the 1924 discovery of the first fossil found of Australopithecus africanus, an extinct hominin closely related to humans, at Taung in the North of South Africa in the Northwest province. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Raymond Dart has received more than 228,897 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Raymond Dart is the 29th most popular anthropologist (down from 26th in 2019), the 68th most popular biography from Australia (down from 59th in 2019) and the most popular Australian Anthropologist.

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Raymond Dart ranks 29 out of 93. Before him are Marshall Sahlins, A. L. Kroeber, Ann Dunham, Jacques de Morgan, Fredrik Barth, and Marvin Harris. After him are Pierre Clastres, Wilhelm Schmidt, Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov, Richard Leakey, Franco Basaglia, and Henry Fairfield Osborn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Raymond Dart ranks 96. Before him are William Dieterle, Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa, Clas Thunberg, Gillis Grafström, Merian C. Cooper, and Edsel Ford. After him are Gaston Julia, Nestor Lakoba, Israel Joshua Singer, Mikheil Gelovani, Luis Otero, and Haykanoush Danielyan. Among people deceased in 1988, Raymond Dart ranks 74. Before him are Piero Taruffi, Viktors Arājs, Charles Addams, Andrija Artuković, Edgar Faure, and Ilona Elek. After him are Mikha'il Na'ima, Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar, Abdulrahman Fawzi, Giacinto Scelsi, Gil Evans, and Françoise Dolto.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, Raymond Dart ranks 68 out of 1,143. Before him are Ken Rosewall (1934), Annette Kellermann (1887), Nellie Melba (1861), David Hurley (1953), Harold Holt (1908), and Colin Burgess (1946). After him are John Howard (1939), Peter Sculthorpe (1929), Bryan Brown (1947), Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark (1972), Elizabeth von Arnim (1866), and Diane Cilento (1933).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In Australia

Among anthropologists born in Australia, Raymond Dart ranks 1. After him are Bill Mollison (1928), and Fiona Graham (1961).

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