1887 - 1948
Ruth Fulton Benedict (June 5, 1887 – September 17, 1948) was an American anthropologist and folklorist. She was born in New York City, attended Vassar College, and graduated in 1909. After studying anthropology at the New School of Social Research under Elsie Clews Parsons, she entered graduate studies at Columbia University in 1921, where she studied under Franz Boas. She received her Ph.D. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ruth Benedict has received more than 688,449 page views. Her biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Ruth Benedict is the 8th most popular anthropologist (up from 9th in 2019), the 505th most popular biography from United States (up from 580th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular American Anthropologist.
Ruth Benedict was a cultural anthropologist who wrote "The Chrysanthemum and the Sword" in 1946. The book is about Japanese culture and how it differs from American culture.
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Among anthropologists, Ruth Benedict ranks 8 out of 69. Before her are Bronisław Malinowski, Edward Burnett Tylor, James George Frazer, Lewis H. Morgan, Jane Goodall, and Margaret Mead. After her are Franz Boas, Paul Broca, Clifford Geertz, Gregory Bateson, Eugène Dubois, and Alfred Radcliffe-Brown.
1884 - 1942
HPI: 71.55
Rank: 2
1832 - 1917
HPI: 69.65
Rank: 3
1854 - 1941
HPI: 69.50
Rank: 4
1818 - 1881
HPI: 68.86
Rank: 5
1934 - Present
HPI: 68.73
Rank: 6
1901 - 1978
HPI: 68.72
Rank: 7
1887 - 1948
HPI: 66.41
Rank: 8
1858 - 1942
HPI: 66.39
Rank: 9
1824 - 1880
HPI: 65.72
Rank: 10
1926 - 2006
HPI: 65.53
Rank: 11
1904 - 1980
HPI: 64.94
Rank: 12
1858 - 1940
HPI: 61.52
Rank: 13
1881 - 1955
HPI: 61.52
Rank: 14
Among people born in 1887, Ruth Benedict ranks 26. Before her are Felix Yusupov, Saint-John Perse, Chūichi Nagumo, Henry Moseley, Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, and Heitor Villa-Lobos. After her are Georg Trakl, Nikolai Vavilov, Nadia Boulanger, Lothar Rendulic, Wolfgang Köhler, and James B. Sumner. Among people deceased in 1948, Ruth Benedict ranks 17. Before her are Walther von Brauchitsch, Karl Brandt, Babe Ruth, Folke Bernadotte, Johannes Blaskowitz, and Witold Pilecki. After her are Nikolai Berdyaev, Theodor Morell, Karl Gebhardt, Maria Mandl, Arthur Liebehenschel, and Jan Masaryk.
1887 - 1967
HPI: 68.28
Rank: 20
1887 - 1975
HPI: 67.75
Rank: 21
1887 - 1944
HPI: 67.65
Rank: 22
1887 - 1915
HPI: 67.42
Rank: 23
1887 - 1969
HPI: 66.54
Rank: 24
1887 - 1959
HPI: 66.43
Rank: 25
1887 - 1948
HPI: 66.41
Rank: 26
1887 - 1914
HPI: 65.63
Rank: 27
1887 - 1943
HPI: 65.37
Rank: 28
1887 - 1979
HPI: 65.06
Rank: 29
1887 - 1971
HPI: 64.47
Rank: 30
1887 - 1967
HPI: 63.94
Rank: 31
1887 - 1955
HPI: 63.87
Rank: 32
1881 - 1948
HPI: 68.85
Rank: 11
1904 - 1948
HPI: 67.88
Rank: 12
1895 - 1948
HPI: 67.55
Rank: 13
1895 - 1948
HPI: 67.00
Rank: 14
1883 - 1948
HPI: 66.86
Rank: 15
1901 - 1948
HPI: 66.84
Rank: 16
1887 - 1948
HPI: 66.41
Rank: 17
1874 - 1948
HPI: 66.28
Rank: 18
1886 - 1948
HPI: 65.55
Rank: 19
1897 - 1948
HPI: 65.15
Rank: 20
1912 - 1948
HPI: 64.74
Rank: 21
1901 - 1948
HPI: 64.42
Rank: 22
1886 - 1948
HPI: 64.00
Rank: 23
Among people born in United States, Ruth Benedict ranks 505 out of 18,182. Before her are Owen Chamberlain (1920), Jeffrey Epstein (1953), Harriet Tubman (1820), Paul Simon (1941), Elinor Ostrom (1933), and Melvin Calvin (1911). After her are Immanuel Wallerstein (1930), Florence Foster Jenkins (1868), John Kerry (1943), Robert Mitchum (1917), Leonard Nimoy (1931), and Romina Power (1951).
1920 - 2006
HPI: 66.47
Rank: 499
1953 - 2019
HPI: 66.45
Rank: 500
1820 - 1913
HPI: 66.45
Rank: 501
1941 - Present
HPI: 66.44
Rank: 502
1933 - 2012
HPI: 66.43
Rank: 503
1911 - 1997
HPI: 66.42
Rank: 504
1887 - 1948
HPI: 66.41
Rank: 505
1930 - 2019
HPI: 66.40
Rank: 506
1868 - 1944
HPI: 66.40
Rank: 507
1943 - Present
HPI: 66.39
Rank: 508
1917 - 1997
HPI: 66.38
Rank: 509
1931 - 2015
HPI: 66.36
Rank: 510
1951 - Present
HPI: 66.36
Rank: 511
Among anthropologists born in United States, Ruth Benedict ranks 3. Before her are Lewis H. Morgan (1818) and Margaret Mead (1901). After her are Clifford Geertz (1926), A. L. Kroeber (1876), Edward T. Hall (1914), Marvin Harris (1927), Leslie White (1900), Marshall Sahlins (1930), Ann Dunham (1942), Henry Fairfield Osborn (1857), and John Lloyd Stephens (1805).
1818 - 1881
HPI: 68.86
Rank: 1
1901 - 1978
HPI: 68.72
Rank: 2
1887 - 1948
HPI: 66.41
Rank: 3
1926 - 2006
HPI: 65.53
Rank: 4
1876 - 1960
HPI: 58.52
Rank: 5
1914 - 2009
HPI: 58.32
Rank: 6
1927 - 2001
HPI: 56.25
Rank: 7
1900 - 1971
HPI: 55.81
Rank: 8
1930 - 2021
HPI: 55.18
Rank: 9
1942 - 1995
HPI: 54.70
Rank: 10
1857 - 1935
HPI: 52.88
Rank: 11
1805 - 1852
HPI: 52.32
Rank: 12