1944 - 2022
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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Among anthropologists, Richard Leakey ranks 22 out of 69. Before 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.
1879 - 1933
HPI: 59.51
Rank: 16
1876 - 1960
HPI: 58.52
Rank: 17
1914 - 2009
HPI: 58.32
Rank: 18
1921 - 2007
HPI: 58.32
Rank: 19
1920 - 1983
HPI: 58.05
Rank: 20
1913 - 1996
HPI: 57.89
Rank: 21
1944 - 2022
HPI: 56.96
Rank: 22
1927 - 2001
HPI: 56.25
Rank: 23
1900 - 1971
HPI: 55.81
Rank: 24
1868 - 1954
HPI: 55.69
Rank: 25
1923 - 1986
HPI: 55.58
Rank: 26
1893 - 1988
HPI: 55.43
Rank: 27
1935 - 2023
HPI: 55.25
Rank: 28
Among people born in 1944, Richard Leakey ranks 138. Before 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 103. Before 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.
1944 - 2002
HPI: 57.23
Rank: 132
1944 - Present
HPI: 57.18
Rank: 133
1944 - 2000
HPI: 57.13
Rank: 134
1944 - 2014
HPI: 57.03
Rank: 135
1944 - Present
HPI: 57.00
Rank: 136
1944 - Present
HPI: 56.99
Rank: 137
1944 - 2022
HPI: 56.96
Rank: 138
1944 - Present
HPI: 56.95
Rank: 139
1944 - Present
HPI: 56.94
Rank: 140
1944 - Present
HPI: 56.88
Rank: 141
1944 - Present
HPI: 56.73
Rank: 142
1944 - Present
HPI: 56.70
Rank: 143
1944 - 2021
HPI: 56.65
Rank: 144
1939 - 2022
HPI: 57.60
Rank: 97
1922 - 2022
HPI: 57.54
Rank: 98
1941 - 2022
HPI: 57.51
Rank: 99
1933 - 2022
HPI: 57.21
Rank: 100
1967 - 2022
HPI: 57.15
Rank: 101
1948 - 2022
HPI: 57.05
Rank: 102
1944 - 2022
HPI: 56.96
Rank: 103
1951 - 2022
HPI: 56.89
Rank: 104
1949 - 2022
HPI: 56.84
Rank: 105
1942 - 2022
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 106
1933 - 2022
HPI: 56.60
Rank: 107
1929 - 2022
HPI: 56.54
Rank: 108
1945 - 2022
HPI: 56.36
Rank: 109
Among people born in Kenya, Richard Leakey ranks 6 out of 140. Before 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).
1941 - Present
HPI: 72.19
Rank: 1
1940 - 2011
HPI: 69.32
Rank: 2
1936 - 1982
HPI: 67.63
Rank: 3
1893 - 1978
HPI: 62.68
Rank: 4
1903 - 1972
HPI: 59.06
Rank: 5
1944 - 2022
HPI: 56.96
Rank: 6
1936 - 2023
HPI: 56.86
Rank: 7
1938 - Present
HPI: 56.44
Rank: 8
1924 - 2020
HPI: 55.89
Rank: 9
1949 - Present
HPI: 53.35
Rank: 10
1931 - 2022
HPI: 53.09
Rank: 11
1984 - Present
HPI: 52.23
Rank: 12
Among anthropologists born in Kenya, Richard Leakey ranks 1.