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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 823,584 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Richard Leakey is the 22nd most popular anthropologist (up from 47th in 2019), the 6th most popular biography from Kenya (up from 16th in 2019) and the most popular Kenyan Anthropologist.

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  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.73

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.11

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Richard Leakey ranks 22 out of 69Before him are Knud Rasmussen, A. L. Kroeber, Edward T. Hall, Mary Douglas, Victor Turner, and Mary Leakey. After him are Marvin Harris, Leslie White, Wilhelm Schmidt, Cheikh Anta Diop, Raymond Dart, and Marc Augé.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Richard Leakey ranks 138Before him are John Entwistle, Alice Walker, Kemal Sunal, Johnny Winter, Tommie Smith, and Brian Tracy. After him are Pattie Boyd, Agnes Baltsa, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Jon Anderson, Terry Brooks, and Pat Martino. Among people deceased in 2022, Richard Leakey ranks 103Before him are Ruggero Deodato, Yuri Averbakh, David Warner, Borislav Ivkov, Mino Raiola, and Ichirou Mizuki. After him are Javier Marías, Ronnie Hellström, Fatma Girik, Máté Fenyvesi, George Crumb, and Catherine Spaak.

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In Kenya

Among people born in Kenya, Richard Leakey ranks 6 out of 140Before him are Richard Dawkins (1941), Wangari Maathai (1940), Barack Obama Sr. (1936), Jomo Kenyatta (1893), and Louis Leakey (1903). After him are Roger Whittaker (1936), Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (1938), Daniel arap Moi (1924), Deep Roy (1949), Mwai Kibaki (1931), and Eliud Kipchoge (1984).

Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In Kenya

Among anthropologists born in Kenya, Richard Leakey ranks 1