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Samuel Noah Kramer

1897 - 1990

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Samuel Noah Kramer (September 28, 1897 – November 26, 1990) was one of the world's leading Assyriologists, an expert in Sumerian history and Sumerian language. After high school, he attended Temple University, before Dropsie University and the University of Pennsylvania, all in Philadelphia. Among scholars, his work is considered transformative for the field of Sumerian history. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Samuel Noah Kramer has received more than 169,668 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Samuel Noah Kramer is the 6,473rd most popular politician (down from 6,047th in 2019), the 235th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 212th in 2019) and the 75th most popular Ukrainian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Samuel Noah Kramer ranks 6,473 out of 19,576Before him are Karl Eusebius, Prince of Liechtenstein, Yuri II of Vladimir, Ibrahim Lodi, Jānis Čakste, Mika Špiljak, and Hanns Albin Rauter. After him are Ante Starčević, Marcus Terentius Varro Lucullus, Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu, William II, Count of Hainaut, Ludmilla Tourischeva, and Alexander Lebed.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Samuel Noah Kramer ranks 90Before him are Chen Cheng, Yuri Kondratyuk, Marcel Petiot, Elijah Muhammad, Maria Valtorta, and Arthur Greiser. After him are Jesse Douglas, Manuel Ávila Camacho, Kurt Gerron, Johann Rattenhuber, Polina Zhemchuzhina, and Fredric March. Among people deceased in 1990, Samuel Noah Kramer ranks 64Before him are Stevie Ray Vaughan, John Stewart Bell, Volodymyr Shcherbytsky, Jim Henson, Tadeusz Kantor, and Arthur Kennedy. After him are Lewis Mumford, Nicola Abbagnano, Samuel Doe, Dexter Gordon, Edmund Conen, and Curtis LeMay.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Samuel Noah Kramer ranks 235 out of 1,365Before him are Nina Matviienko (1947), Stanisław Sosabowski (1892), Peter Wittgenstein (1768), Anatole Litvak (1902), Alexander Rutskoy (1947), and Mikhail Eisenstein (1867). After him are Ivan Bohun (1618), Lyudmila Gurchenko (1935), Natan Sharansky (1948), Michael Rostovtzeff (1870), Alexander Siloti (1863), and Abram Ioffe (1880).

Among POLITICIANS In Ukraine

Among politicians born in Ukraine, Samuel Noah Kramer ranks 75Before him are Yaakov Dori (1899), Volodymyr Shcherbytsky (1918), Alexandru Averescu (1859), Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko (1883), Peter Wittgenstein (1768), and Alexander Rutskoy (1947). After him are Natan Sharansky (1948), Oleksii Reznikov (1966), Petro Doroshenko (1627), Polina Zhemchuzhina (1897), Vsevolod II of Kiev (1104), and Volodymyr Vynnychenko (1880).