ARCHAEOLOGIST

Spyridon Marinatos

1901 - 1974

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Spyridon Marinatos (Greek: Σπυρίδων Μαρινάτος; 17 November [O.S. 4 November] 1901 – 1 October 1974) was a Greek archaeologist who specialised in the Bronze Age Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations. He is best known for the excavation of the Minoan site of Akrotiri on Santorini, which he conducted between 1967 and 1974. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Spyridon Marinatos has received more than 100,533 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Spyridon Marinatos is the 112th most popular archaeologist (down from 55th in 2019), the 772nd most popular biography from Greece (down from 529th in 2019) and the most popular Greek Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Spyridon Marinatos ranks 112 out of 151. Before him are Colin Groves, Leon Kozłowski, Rudolf Wagner, Lewis Binford, Anne Stine Ingstad, and Mortimer Wheeler. After him are Franz Weidenreich, Meave Leakey, Ekrem Akurgal, Robert T. Bakker, Zakaria Goneim, and Grafton Elliot Smith.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Spyridon Marinatos ranks 264. Before him are Syama Prasad Mukherjee, Lisette Model, Mildred Dunnock, Paul Yü Pin, Thawan Thamrongnawasawat, and Erich Rademacher. After him are Ernesto Chaparro, Gerald Finzi, Heðin Brú, Samuel Zauber, Pyotr Novikov, and Leopoldo Conti. Among people deceased in 1974, Spyridon Marinatos ranks 194. Before him are Erskine Hamilton Childers, Gösta Lilliehöök, Matilde Hidalgo, Béla Illés, Ferruccio Novo, and Jimmy Hogan. After him are Bobby Timmons, Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, Frank Hussey, Otto Kruger, Aldo Palazzeschi, and Begum Akhtar.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Spyridon Marinatos ranks 772 out of 1,024. Before him are John Kaminiates (900), John Iliopoulos (1940), Athanasios Miaoulis (1815), Sam Panopoulos (1934), Skeet Ulrich (1970), and Ioannis Malokinis (1880). After him are Panagiotis Pipinelis (1899), Stamatios Nikolopoulos (1900), Alexandros Chalkokondylis (1880), Dimitrios Valvis (1814), Agesipolis III (-242), and Arianna Huffington (1950).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In Greece

Among archaeologists born in Greece, Spyridon Marinatos ranks 1. 

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