ANTHROPOLOGIST

Richard Leakey

1944 - 2022

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Richard Erskine Frere Leakey (19 December 1944 – 2 January 2022) was a Kenyan paleoanthropologist, conservationist and politician. Leakey held a number of official positions in Kenya, mostly in institutions of archaeology and wildlife conservation. He was Director of the National Museum of Kenya, founded the NGO WildlifeDirect, and was the chairman of the Kenya Wildlife Service. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Leakey has received more than 865,557 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Richard Leakey is the 33rd most popular anthropologist (down from 22nd in 2019), the 11th most popular biography from Kenya (down from 6th in 2019) and the most popular Kenyan Anthropologist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.78

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Richard Leakey ranks 33 out of 93. Before him are Fredrik Barth, Marvin Harris, Raymond Dart, Pierre Clastres, Wilhelm Schmidt, and Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov. After him are Franco Basaglia, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Marcel Griaule, Jean Malaurie, David Graeber, and Paolo Mantegazza.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Richard Leakey ranks 238. Before him are Mauro Piacenza, Džemaludin Mušović, Phillip Allen Sharp, Abdul Fatah Younis, Tim Rice, and Gabor Maté. After him are Ivica Račan, Péter Eötvös, Jim Abrahams, Donald Tsang, Louise Lake-Tack, and Edgar Froese. Among people deceased in 2022, Richard Leakey ranks 153. Before him are Joe Turkel, Ronnie Hellström, Dominique Lapierre, Pierre Kartner, Mwai Kibaki, and Bujar Nishani. After him are Leonardo Del Vecchio, Tekla Juniewicz, Mino Raiola, Philip Baker Hall, Elza Soares, and Bernd Bransch.

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In Kenya

Among people born in Kenya, Richard Leakey ranks 11 out of 150. Before him are Jomo Kenyatta (1893), Louis Leakey (1903), Daniel arap Moi (1924), Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (1938), Deep Roy (1949), and Mwai Kibaki (1931). After him are Kipchoge Keino (1940), Eliud Kipchoge (1984), Uhuru Kenyatta (1961), Philippa Gregory (1954), William Ruto (1966), and Edi Gathegi (1979).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In Kenya

Among anthropologists born in Kenya, Richard Leakey ranks 1. 

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