PHILOSOPHER

Samuel Alexander

1859 - 1938

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Samuel Alexander (6 January 1859 – 13 September 1938) was an Australian-born British philosopher. He was the first Jewish fellow of an Oxbridge college. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Samuel Alexander has received more than 103,790 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Samuel Alexander is the 942nd most popular philosopher (down from 932nd in 2019), the 108th most popular biography from Australia (down from 100th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Australian Philosopher.

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  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.67

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Samuel Alexander ranks 942 out of 1,267. Before him are Ramiro Ledesma Ramos, Pedro da Fonseca, Paul Janet, Richard Swinburne, Debendranath Tagore, and Robert Anton Wilson. After him are Ibrahim al-Nazzam, Gabriel Biel, Olavo de Carvalho, Rüdiger Safranski, Firmin Abauzit, and Fernando Savater.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1859, Samuel Alexander ranks 79. Before him are Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe, Christian von Ehrenfels, Ernst Hartert, Victor Loret, Louis Majorelle, and Prince Arsen of Yugoslavia. After him are Kosta Khetagurov, Otto Hölder, August Enna, Fanny Bullock Workman, Jacques Loeb, and Constantine VI of Constantinople. Among people deceased in 1938, Samuel Alexander ranks 128. Before him are Marie-Joseph Lagrange, Paolo Troubetzkoy, Abdurauf Fitrat, Erik Werenskiold, Prince Arsen of Yugoslavia, and Jānis Rudzutaks. After him are Jane Toppan, Gösta Ekman, Max Wien, Aleksandar Malinov, Turar Ryskulov, and Leopoldo Lugones.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, Samuel Alexander ranks 108 out of 1,143. Before him are David Warren (1925), Bob Hewitt (1940), George Pell (1941), Julian McMahon (1968), Jack Crawford (1908), and Natalie Imbruglia (1975). After him are Peter Norman (1942), John Pilger (1939), Elle Macpherson (1964), Baz Luhrmann (1962), Bruce Beresford (1940), and Peter C. Doherty (1940).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Australia

Among philosophers born in Australia, Samuel Alexander ranks 2. Before him are Peter Singer (1946). After him are David Chalmers (1966), J. L. Mackie (1917), John Finnis (1940), and David Malet Armstrong (1926).

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