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William Adam

1689 - 1748

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William Adam (1689 – 24 June 1748) was a Scottish architect, mason, and entrepreneur. He was the foremost architect of his time in Scotland, designing and building numerous country houses and public buildings, and often acting as contractor as well as architect. Among his best known works are Hopetoun House near Edinburgh, and Duff House in Banff. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Adam has received more than 11,537 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). William Adam is the 489th most popular architect (down from 460th in 2019), the 5,059th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 5,406th in 2019) and the 42nd most popular British Architect.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.58

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.69

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, William Adam ranks 489 out of 518. Before him are Johan Sigfrid Sirén, Aston Webb, Wojciech Zabłocki, George Gilbert Scott, Robert A. M. Stern, and Richard Morris Hunt. After him are Alfred Mosher Butts, Joseph Pickford, John Russell Pope, Benjamin Mountfort, Calvert Vaux, and Maya Lin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1689, William Adam ranks 15. Before him are Zahir al-Umar, Blas de Lezo, Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer, Alexis Piron, Szymon Czechowicz, and Jan Klemens Branicki.  Among people deceased in 1748, William Adam ranks 18. Before him are William Kent, Aleksei Chirikov, Otto Ferdinand von Abensperg und Traun, Isaac Watts, James Thomson, and Duchess Gustave Caroline of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Adam ranks 5,059 out of 8,785. Before him are Roma Ryan (1950), Lady Charlotte Guest (1812), Aaron Taylor-Johnson (1990), Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst (1762), Pat Crerand (1939), and Stuart Pearce (1962). After him are John Connelly (1938), John Garstang (1876), Thomas Brisbane (1773), Richard Tandy (1948), Albert Oldman (1883), and George Butterworth (1885).

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Among ARCHITECTS In United Kingdom

Among architects born in United Kingdom, William Adam ranks 42. Before him are William Burges (1827), Robert Smirke (1780), Giles Gilbert Scott (1880), James Gibbs (1682), Aston Webb (1849), and George Gilbert Scott (1811). After him are Joseph Pickford (1736), Benjamin Mountfort (1825), Calvert Vaux (1824), Herbert Baker (1862), John Douglas (1830), and Richard Norman Shaw (1831).

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