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Stuart Hall

1932 - 2014

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Stuart Henry McPhail Hall (3 February 1932 – 10 February 2014) was a Jamaican-born British Marxist sociologist, cultural theorist, and political activist. Hall — along with Richard Hoggart and Raymond Williams — was one of the founding figures of the school of thought known as British Cultural Studies or the Birmingham School of Cultural Studies. In the 1950s Hall was a founder of the influential journal New Left Review. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Stuart Hall has received more than 61,779 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Stuart Hall is the 30th most popular sociologist (down from 25th in 2019), the 9th most popular biography from Jamaica (down from 6th in 2019) and the most popular Jamaican Sociologist.

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  • 57.96

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.62

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.93

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIOLOGISTS

Among sociologists, Stuart Hall ranks 30 out of 79. Before him are Thomas Luckmann, Daniel Bell, Ziya Gökalp, Saskia Sassen, Robert E. Park, and Howard S. Becker. After him are Ludwig Gumplowicz, Georges Gurvitch, Harold Garfinkel, W. I. Thomas, Andre Gunder Frank, and Herbert Blumer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Stuart Hall ranks 110. Before him are Rodion Shchedrin, Paolo Villaggio, Wolf Vostell, Amrish Puri, Joseph Zen, and Charly Gaul. After him are Aharon Appelfeld, Dieter Rams, Dušan Makavejev, Margit Korondi, Iskandar of Johor, and Christy Brown. Among people deceased in 2014, Stuart Hall ranks 92. Before him are Riz Ortolani, Mike Nichols, Milan Galić, Louis Zamperini, Jean-Luc Dehaene, and Fred Phelps. After him are Jack Bruce, Mango, Valeri Kubasov, Yitzhak Hofi, Richard Bull, and Robert Hansen.

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In Jamaica

Among people born in Jamaica, Stuart Hall ranks 9 out of 189. Before him are Grace Jones (1948), Usain Bolt (1986), Peter Tosh (1944), Marcus Garvey (1887), Ben Johnson (1961), and Jimmy Cliff (1948). After him are Liz Mitchell (1952), Violet Brown (1900), Merlene Ottey (1960), Trevor Berbick (1954), Lee "Scratch" Perry (1936), and Patrick Ewing (1962).

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS In Jamaica

Among sociologists born in Jamaica, Stuart Hall ranks 1. 

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