ARCHAEOLOGIST

Robert Broom

1866 - 1951

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Robert Broom FRS FRSE (30 November 1866 – 6 April 1951) was a British- South African medical doctor and palaeontologist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Broom has received more than 106,076 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Broom is the 60th most popular archaeologist (down from 59th in 2019), the 2,267th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,284th in 2019) and the 10th most popular British Archaeologist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 110k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.60

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.78

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Robert Brooms by language

Over the past year Robert Broom has had the most page views in the with 11,563 views, followed by Spanish (3,091), and Persian (1,575). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Chinese (412.73%), Azerbaijani (38.14%), and Galician (33.73%)

Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Robert Broom ranks 60 out of 151. Before him are Johan Gunnar Andersson, Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet, Max von Oppenheim, Heinrich Karl Brugsch, Adolf Furtwängler, and Johan David Åkerblad. After him are Victor Loret, Alan Gardiner, Charles W. Gilmore, Jacques-Joseph Champollion-Figeac, André Parrot, and Giuseppe Tucci.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1866, Robert Broom ranks 77. Before him are Carlos Schwabe, Joel Hastings Metcalf, Julian Marchlewski, Antonio Luna, Andrey Lyapchev, and Mario García Menocal. After him are George Minne, Paolo Troubetzkoy, Tristan Bernard, Georg Jensen, Ignacy Daszyński, and Kuroda Seiki. Among people deceased in 1951, Robert Broom ranks 91. Before him are Bernhard Kellermann, Vilhelm Bjerknes, Edgar Rubin, Fritz Busch, Fumiko Hayashi, and Pedro Salinas. After him are José Enrique Varela, Selim Palmgren, André Gobert, Mohammad-Taqi Bahar, Reggie Walker, and László Almásy.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Robert Broom ranks 2,267 out of 8,785. Before him are Mark Rylance (1960), Maud Watson (1864), John William Draper (1811), Gloria Holden (1903), Arthur Aikin (1773), and Robert Harris (1957). After him are Olivia Williams (1968), Lulu (1948), Nick Kamen (1962), Nassau William Senior (1790), Emerald Fennell (1985), and Evelyn Colyer (1902).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among archaeologists born in United Kingdom, Robert Broom ranks 10. Before him are Flinders Petrie (1853), George Smith (1840), John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury (1834), Leonard Woolley (1880), Max Mallowan (1904), and Colin Renfrew (1937). After him are Alan Gardiner (1879), Kathleen Kenyon (1906), Charles Dawson (1864), Dorothy Garrod (1892), John Evans (1823), and John Marshall (1876).

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