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Roy Chapman Andrews

1884 - 1960

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Roy Chapman Andrews (January 26, 1884 – March 11, 1960) was an American explorer, adventurer and naturalist who became the director of the American Museum of Natural History. He led a series of expeditions through the politically disturbed China of the early 20th century into the Gobi Desert and Mongolia. The expeditions made important discoveries and brought the first-known fossil dinosaur eggs to the museum. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Roy Chapman Andrews has received more than 339,151 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Roy Chapman Andrews is the 259th most popular explorer (down from 237th in 2019), the 3,835th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,358th in 2019) and the 16th most popular American Explorer.

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  • 27

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  • 4.94

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Roy Chapman Andrews ranks 259 out of 405. Before him are Carl Peters, Freya Stark, Karl Weyprecht, Estêvão Gomes, Paweł Strzelecki, and Eusebio Kino. After him are Ippolito Rosellini, Ludwig Leichhardt, Willem de Vlamingh, William Clark, Nikolai Spathari, and Pedro Menéndez de Avilés.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Roy Chapman Andrews ranks 94. Before him are Johannes Popitz, Jules Supervielle, Jaan Anvelt, Evelyn Nesbit, Daniel Varoujan, and Princess Caroline Reuss of Greiz. After him are Félix Éboué, Pedro Pablo Ramírez, George David Birkhoff, Harry Langdon, Enrico Dante, and Constantin Constantinescu-Claps. Among people deceased in 1960, Roy Chapman Andrews ranks 89. Before him are Hashim al-Atassi, Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke, Maud Menten, Joseph Vendryes, Lottie Dod, and H. C. Hansen. After him are Auguste Herbin, Leó Weiner, Henny Porten, Sylvia Pankhurst, Ernst Wilhelm Bohle, and Erich Neumann.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Roy Chapman Andrews ranks 3,835 out of 18,182. Before him are Seth Carlo Chandler (1846), Scott Bradley (1891), Amy Irving (1953), Elvin Jones (1927), Dorothy Dandridge (1922), and Efrem Zimbalist Jr. (1918). After him are Ray Wise (1947), William Calley (1943), Wanda Jackson (1937), Stephen J. Cannell (1941), Bill Cobbs (1934), and James Turrell (1943).

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Among EXPLORERS In United States

Among explorers born in United States, Roy Chapman Andrews ranks 16. Before him are Don Walsh (1931), Jimmie Angel (1899), George W. De Long (1844), Daniel Boone (1734), Jedediah Smith (1799), and Chris McCandless (1968). After him are William Clark (1770), Edward S. Curtis (1868), Meriwether Lewis (1774), John C. Frémont (1813), Charles Wilkes (1798), and Charles Francis Hall (1821).

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