1885 - 1976
Stith Thompson (March 7, 1885 – January 10, 1976) was an American folklorist: he has been described as "America's most important folklorist".He is the "Thompson" of the Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index, which indexes folktales by type, and the author of the Motif-Index of Folk-Literature, a resource for folklorists that indexes motifs, granular elements of folklore. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Stith Thompson has received more than 139,186 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Stith Thompson is the 121st most popular archaeologist, the 8,722nd most popular biography from United States and the 15th most popular American Archaeologist.
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Among archaeologists, Stith Thompson ranks 121 out of 104. Before him are Meave Leakey, Grafton Elliot Smith, Boris Piotrovsky, Colin Groves, Ian Hodder, and Mortimer Wheeler. After him are Klaus Schmidt, Paolo Orsi, Phillip V. Tobias, Alexey Okladnikov, Bernard Pyne Grenfell, and Miroslav Verner.
1942 - Present
HPI: 44.15
Rank: 115
1871 - 1937
HPI: 44.08
Rank: 116
1908 - 1990
HPI: 43.98
Rank: 117
1942 - 2017
HPI: 43.94
Rank: 118
1948 - Present
HPI: 43.82
Rank: 119
1890 - 1976
HPI: 43.55
Rank: 120
1885 - 1976
HPI: 43.27
Rank: 121
1953 - 2014
HPI: 43.17
Rank: 122
1859 - 1935
HPI: 43.05
Rank: 123
1925 - 2012
HPI: 42.69
Rank: 124
1908 - 1981
HPI: 42.45
Rank: 125
1869 - 1926
HPI: 42.40
Rank: 126
1941 - Present
HPI: 41.79
Rank: 127
Among people born in 1885, Stith Thompson ranks 207. Before him are Enrico Mizzi, Herbert Stothart, Frank Hurley, Karel Hartmann, Burton Downing, and Leonard Peterson. After him are Robert Liottel, C. J. Hambro, George Dole, Bjørn Rasmussen, René Benjamin, and Riccardo Nowak. Among people deceased in 1976, Stith Thompson ranks 209. Before him are María Corda, Jimmy Garrison, Martín Luis Guzmán, Armen Ohanian, Mortimer Wheeler, and John A. Costello. After him are John Ainsworth-Davis, Mario Alborta, Camilo Ponce Enríquez, Muhammad Sakizli, James Wong Howe, and Tibor Csík.
1885 - Present
HPI: 44.03
Rank: 201
1885 - 1949
HPI: 43.90
Rank: 202
1885 - 1962
HPI: 43.87
Rank: 203
1885 - 1944
HPI: 43.74
Rank: 204
1885 - 1929
HPI: 43.71
Rank: 205
1885 - 1956
HPI: 43.49
Rank: 206
1885 - 1976
HPI: 43.27
Rank: 207
1885 - 1968
HPI: 43.18
Rank: 208
1885 - 1964
HPI: 43.16
Rank: 209
1885 - 1928
HPI: 43.10
Rank: 210
1885 - 1962
HPI: 43.04
Rank: 211
1885 - 1948
HPI: 42.62
Rank: 212
1885 - 1950
HPI: 42.48
Rank: 213
1898 - 1976
HPI: 44.22
Rank: 203
1934 - 1976
HPI: 44.11
Rank: 204
1887 - 1976
HPI: 44.09
Rank: 205
1887 - 1976
HPI: 43.97
Rank: 206
1890 - 1976
HPI: 43.55
Rank: 207
1891 - 1976
HPI: 43.49
Rank: 208
1885 - 1976
HPI: 43.27
Rank: 209
1895 - 1976
HPI: 43.10
Rank: 210
1910 - 1976
HPI: 43.09
Rank: 211
1912 - 1976
HPI: 43.05
Rank: 212
1892 - 1976
HPI: 42.86
Rank: 213
1899 - 1976
HPI: 42.69
Rank: 214
1927 - 1976
HPI: 42.67
Rank: 215
Among people born in United States, Stith Thompson ranks 8,722 out of 18,182. Before him are Kevin J. Anderson (1962), Spencer Dryden (1938), Edward Abbey (1927), Christopher Young (1958), John Layfield (1966), and Kathy Hochul (1958). After him are Annette Rogers (1913), George Montgomery (1916), Gorilla Monsoon (1937), David Burtka (1975), Joe Roth (1948), and M. Scott Peck (1936).
1962 - Present
HPI: 43.28
Rank: 8,716
1938 - 2005
HPI: 43.28
Rank: 8,717
1927 - 1989
HPI: 43.28
Rank: 8,718
1958 - Present
HPI: 43.28
Rank: 8,719
1966 - Present
HPI: 43.28
Rank: 8,720
1958 - Present
HPI: 43.28
Rank: 8,721
1885 - 1976
HPI: 43.27
Rank: 8,722
1913 - 2006
HPI: 43.27
Rank: 8,723
1916 - 2000
HPI: 43.27
Rank: 8,724
1937 - 1999
HPI: 43.27
Rank: 8,725
1975 - Present
HPI: 43.27
Rank: 8,726
1948 - Present
HPI: 43.26
Rank: 8,727
1936 - 2005
HPI: 43.26
Rank: 8,728
Among archaeologists born in United States, Stith Thompson ranks 15. Before him are Lewis Binford (1932), Michael D. Coe (1929), Carl Blegen (1887), Robert John Braidwood (1907), Robert T. Bakker (1945), and Charles W. Gilmore (1874). After him are J. P. Mallory (1945) and Nancy Dupree (1927).
1932 - 2011
HPI: 46.58
Rank: 9
1929 - 2019
HPI: 46.47
Rank: 10
1887 - 1971
HPI: 46.41
Rank: 11
1907 - 2003
HPI: 45.98
Rank: 12
1945 - Present
HPI: 45.90
Rank: 13
1874 - 1945
HPI: 45.61
Rank: 14
1885 - 1976
HPI: 43.27
Rank: 15
1945 - Present
HPI: 41.25
Rank: 16
1927 - 2017
HPI: 38.24
Rank: 17