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Yi-Fu Tuan

1930 - 2022

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Yi-Fu Tuan (Chinese: 段義孚; December 5, 1930 – August 10, 2022) was a Chinese-born American geographer and writer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yi-Fu Tuan has received more than 244,707 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Yi-Fu Tuan is the 48th most popular geographer (up from 51st in 2019), the 682nd most popular biography from China (up from 717th in 2019) and the most popular Chinese Geographer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 240k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.18

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.62

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.35

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among GEOGRAPHERS

Among geographers, Yi-Fu Tuan ranks 48 out of 86. Before him are Conrad Malte-Brun, Erich von Drygalski, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville, Marie Tharp, Abu Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdani, and Jan Janssonius. After him are Inō Tadataka, Richard Hartshorne, Giovanni Battista Ramusio, Arnold Henry Guyot, Pedro Reinel, and Hans Meyer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Yi-Fu Tuan ranks 211. Before him are Károly Grósz, Gholamreza Takhti, Stuart Lewis-Evans, Sandra Day O'Connor, Silvio Santos, and Gérard Blain. After him are John Wood, Richie Ginther, Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo, Carmen Sevilla, Leslie Manigat, and Donn F. Eisele. Among people deceased in 2022, Yi-Fu Tuan ranks 172. Before him are Maryan Wisniewski, Mulayam Singh Yadav, Fidel Ramos, Ciriaco De Mita, Alec John Such, and Vadim Bakatin. After him are Earnie Shavers, James McDivitt, Chrysostomos II of Cyprus, Anatoly Filipchenko, Carl, Duke of Württemberg, and Kitten Natividad.

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In China

Among people born in China, Yi-Fu Tuan ranks 682 out of 1,610. Before him are Li Tang (1050), Shi Jingtang (892), Yijing (635), Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa (1924), Lee Hoi-chuen (1901), and Wu Zhen (1280). After him are Tan Sitong (1865), Emperor Xiaoming of Northern Wei (510), Rabban Bar Sauma (1220), Zeng Qinghong (1939), Hai Rui (1514), and Lau Kar-leung (1934).

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Among GEOGRAPHERS In China

Among geographers born in China, Yi-Fu Tuan ranks 1. 

Chinese born Geographers

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