1942 - Today
Robert Duane Ballard (born June 30, 1942) is an American retired Navy officer and a professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island who is most noted for his work in underwater archaeology: maritime archaeology and archaeology of shipwrecks. He is best known for the discoveries of the wrecks of the RMS Titanic in 1985, the battleship Bismarck in 1989, and the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown in 1998. He discovered the wreck of John F. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Ballard has received more than 1,979,881 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Robert Ballard is the 30th most popular archaeologist (down from 25th in 2019), the 2,108th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,172nd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular American Archaeologist.
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Among archaeologists, Robert Ballard ranks 30 out of 104. Before him are Leo Frobenius, Bogdan Filov, Alcide d'Orbigny, Paul Pelliot, Leonard Woolley, and Othniel Charles Marsh. After him are Neferkare Tereru, Ami Boué, Wilhelm Dörpfeld, George Gaylord Simpson, André Leroi-Gourhan, and John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury.
1873 - 1938
HPI: 58.03
Rank: 24
1883 - 1945
HPI: 57.54
Rank: 25
1802 - 1857
HPI: 57.48
Rank: 26
1878 - 1945
HPI: 57.38
Rank: 27
1880 - 1960
HPI: 57.30
Rank: 28
1831 - 1899
HPI: 57.08
Rank: 29
1942 - Present
HPI: 56.87
Rank: 30
2200 BC - 2200 BC
HPI: 56.13
Rank: 31
1794 - 1881
HPI: 55.83
Rank: 32
1853 - 1940
HPI: 55.63
Rank: 33
1902 - 1984
HPI: 55.63
Rank: 34
1911 - 1986
HPI: 55.56
Rank: 35
1834 - 1913
HPI: 55.55
Rank: 36
Among people born in 1942, Robert Ballard ranks 150. Before him are Étienne Balibar, Vasily Alekseyev, Michel Kafando, Michel Fourniret, Nicole Fontaine, and Sigfried Held. After him are Rei Kawakubo, Silvia Federici, Fatma Girik, Karen Uhlenbeck, Bill Conti, and Jean-Pierre Jabouille.
1942 - Present
HPI: 57.30
Rank: 144
1942 - 2011
HPI: 57.30
Rank: 145
1942 - Present
HPI: 57.20
Rank: 146
1942 - 2021
HPI: 57.07
Rank: 147
1942 - 2018
HPI: 57.06
Rank: 148
1942 - Present
HPI: 56.98
Rank: 149
1942 - Present
HPI: 56.87
Rank: 150
1942 - Present
HPI: 56.82
Rank: 151
1942 - Present
HPI: 56.79
Rank: 152
1942 - 2022
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 153
1942 - Present
HPI: 56.61
Rank: 154
1942 - Present
HPI: 56.47
Rank: 155
1942 - 2023
HPI: 56.46
Rank: 156
Among people born in United States, Robert Ballard ranks 2,108 out of 18,182. Before him are Paul Michael Glaser (1943), John Philip Sousa (1854), Joe Pantoliano (1951), Jeffrey C. Hall (1945), Sheldon Adelson (1933), and Jon Kabat-Zinn (1944). After him are Merce Cunningham (1919), Steve Morse (1954), Charles M. Rice (1952), Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr. (1868), Leonard Kleinrock (1934), and Karl Guthe Jansky (1905).
1943 - Present
HPI: 56.89
Rank: 2,102
1854 - 1932
HPI: 56.88
Rank: 2,103
1951 - Present
HPI: 56.88
Rank: 2,104
1945 - Present
HPI: 56.88
Rank: 2,105
1933 - 2021
HPI: 56.88
Rank: 2,106
1944 - Present
HPI: 56.88
Rank: 2,107
1942 - Present
HPI: 56.87
Rank: 2,108
1919 - 2009
HPI: 56.87
Rank: 2,109
1954 - Present
HPI: 56.87
Rank: 2,110
1952 - Present
HPI: 56.87
Rank: 2,111
1868 - 1924
HPI: 56.86
Rank: 2,112
1934 - Present
HPI: 56.85
Rank: 2,113
1905 - 1950
HPI: 56.85
Rank: 2,114
Among archaeologists born in United States, Robert Ballard ranks 3. Before him are Edward Drinker Cope (1840) and Othniel Charles Marsh (1831). After him are George Gaylord Simpson (1902), James Henry Breasted (1865), Edward Robinson (1794), Donald Johanson (1943), Sylvanus Morley (1883), Lewis Binford (1932), Michael D. Coe (1929), Carl Blegen (1887), and Robert John Braidwood (1907).
1840 - 1897
HPI: 66.70
Rank: 1
1831 - 1899
HPI: 57.08
Rank: 2
1942 - Present
HPI: 56.87
Rank: 3
1902 - 1984
HPI: 55.63
Rank: 4
1865 - 1935
HPI: 54.01
Rank: 5
1794 - 1863
HPI: 50.65
Rank: 6
1943 - Present
HPI: 49.12
Rank: 7
1883 - 1948
HPI: 47.14
Rank: 8
1932 - 2011
HPI: 46.58
Rank: 9
1929 - 2019
HPI: 46.47
Rank: 10
1887 - 1971
HPI: 46.41
Rank: 11
1907 - 2003
HPI: 45.98
Rank: 12