1896 - 1982
Roman Osipovich Jakobson (Russian: Рома́н О́сипович Якобсо́н, IPA: [rɐˈman ˈosʲɪpəvʲɪt͡ɕ (j)ɪkɐpˈson]; 11 October [O.S. 29 September] 1896 – 18 July 1982) was a Russian linguist and literary theorist. A pioneer of structural linguistics, Jakobson was one of the most celebrated and influential linguists of the twentieth century. With Nikolai Trubetzkoy, he developed revolutionary new techniques for the analysis of linguistic sound systems, in effect founding the modern discipline of phonology. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Roman Jakobson has received more than 741,792 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Roman Jakobson is the 5th most popular linguist (down from 4th in 2019), the 81st most popular biography from Russia (down from 75th in 2019) and the most popular Russian Linguist.
Roman Jakobson is most famous for his work in linguistics. He was a professor of Slavic languages and literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He is most famous for his work on the six functions of language, which are phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and discourse.
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Among linguists, Roman Jakobson ranks 5 out of 161. Before him are Ferdinand de Saussure, Noam Chomsky, Max Müller, and William James Sidis. After him are Mahmud al-Kashgari, Mesrop Mashtots, Patanjali, Pāṇini, Franz Bopp, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, and Edward Sapir.
1857 - 1913
HPI: 78.58
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1928 - Present
HPI: 77.50
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1823 - 1900
HPI: 72.38
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1898 - 1944
HPI: 72.22
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1896 - 1982
HPI: 72.05
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1029 - 1101
HPI: 71.32
Rank: 6
361 - 440
HPI: 68.98
Rank: 7
200 BC - 150 BC
HPI: 67.78
Rank: 8
500 BC - Present
HPI: 66.12
Rank: 9
1791 - 1867
HPI: 65.76
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1858 - 1922
HPI: 65.28
Rank: 11
1884 - 1939
HPI: 64.94
Rank: 12
Among people born in 1896, Roman Jakobson ranks 9. Before him are Wallis Simpson, Lev Vygotsky, Georgy Zhukov, André Breton, Imre Nagy, and Tristan Tzara. After him are Konstantin Rokossovsky, Antonin Artaud, Eugenio Montale, Trygve Lie, Klement Gottwald, and Andrei Zhdanov. Among people deceased in 1982, Roman Jakobson ranks 9. Before him are Leonid Brezhnev, Ayn Rand, Romy Schneider, Ingrid Bergman, Carl Orff, and Arthur Rubinstein. After him are Henry Fonda, Philip K. Dick, Hans-Ulrich Rudel, Anna Freud, Erving Goffman, and Vasily Chuikov.
1896 - 1986
HPI: 79.31
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1896 - 1934
HPI: 77.29
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1896 - 1974
HPI: 77.08
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1896 - 1966
HPI: 73.89
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1896 - 1958
HPI: 73.67
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1896 - 1963
HPI: 72.59
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1896 - 1982
HPI: 72.05
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1896 - 1968
HPI: 70.37
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1896 - 1948
HPI: 70.31
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1896 - 1981
HPI: 70.22
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1896 - 1968
HPI: 69.30
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1896 - 1953
HPI: 68.95
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1896 - 1948
HPI: 68.86
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1906 - 1982
HPI: 81.78
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1905 - 1982
HPI: 78.45
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1938 - 1982
HPI: 76.91
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1915 - 1982
HPI: 75.17
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1895 - 1982
HPI: 74.68
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1887 - 1982
HPI: 72.18
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1896 - 1982
HPI: 72.05
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1905 - 1982
HPI: 71.52
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1928 - 1982
HPI: 71.38
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1916 - 1982
HPI: 71.06
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1895 - 1982
HPI: 70.72
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1922 - 1982
HPI: 70.53
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1900 - 1982
HPI: 70.06
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Among people born in Russia, Roman Jakobson ranks 81 out of 3,262. Before him are Andrei Sakharov (1921), Konstantin Stanislavski (1863), Alexander Scriabin (1871), Ivan III of Russia (1440), Mikhail Kutuzov (1745), and Anna Pavlova (1881). After him are Grigory Potemkin (1739), Michael of Russia (1596), Wilhelm Wien (1864), Alexander Borodin (1833), Alexis of Russia (1629), and Mikhail Kalinin (1875).
1921 - 1989
HPI: 72.61
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1863 - 1938
HPI: 72.50
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1871 - 1915
HPI: 72.39
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1440 - 1505
HPI: 72.29
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1745 - 1813
HPI: 72.09
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1881 - 1931
HPI: 72.06
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1896 - 1982
HPI: 72.05
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1739 - 1791
HPI: 72.03
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1596 - 1645
HPI: 72.01
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1864 - 1928
HPI: 71.90
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1833 - 1887
HPI: 71.84
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1629 - 1676
HPI: 71.69
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1875 - 1946
HPI: 71.22
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Among linguists born in Russia, Roman Jakobson ranks 1. After him are Algirdas Julien Greimas (1917), Nikolai Trubetzkoy (1890), Gabdulkhay Akhatov (1927), Igor M. Diakonoff (1914), Yevgeny Polivanov (1891), Waldemar Rosenberger (1848), Vyacheslav Ivanov (1929), Alexander Veselovsky (1838), Vladimir Toporov (1928), Andrey Zaliznyak (1935), and Lev Shcherba (1880).
1896 - 1982
HPI: 72.05
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1917 - 1992
HPI: 63.33
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1890 - 1938
HPI: 61.52
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1927 - 1986
HPI: 58.03
Rank: 4
1914 - 1999
HPI: 51.05
Rank: 5
1891 - 1938
HPI: 47.87
Rank: 6
1848 - 1918
HPI: 47.80
Rank: 7
1929 - 2017
HPI: 47.70
Rank: 8
1838 - 1906
HPI: 47.25
Rank: 9
1928 - 2005
HPI: 46.58
Rank: 10
1935 - 2017
HPI: 45.34
Rank: 11
1880 - 1944
HPI: 44.95
Rank: 12