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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 224,480 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Yi-Fu Tuan is the 51st most popular geographer (down from 50th in 2019), the 719th most popular biography from China (down from 650th in 2019) and the most popular Chinese Geographer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 220k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.79

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.99

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.21

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among GEOGRAPHERS

Among geographers, Yi-Fu Tuan ranks 51 out of 67Before him are Richard Hartshorne, Erich von Drygalski, Johann Gottlieb Georgi, Pedro Reinel, Abu Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdani, and Conrad Malte-Brun. After him are Giovanni Battista Ramusio, Jan Janssonius, Carlos Viegas Gago Coutinho, Claes Jansz. Visscher, Guillaume Delisle, and Hans Meyer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Yi-Fu Tuan ranks 256Before him are Christian Tumi, Kalevi Sorsa, Donn F. Eisele, José Ramón Machado Ventura, Julián Herranz Casado, and John Alcott. After him are Chuck Daly, Naomi Shemer, Tadao Kobayashi, Tommy Flanagan, Carmen Sevilla, and Antonio Saura. Among people deceased in 2022, Yi-Fu Tuan ranks 204Before him are Manuel Esquivel, Pablo Milanés, Antonios Naguib, Maryan Wisniewski, Edgar Savisaar, and Christopher Alexander. After him are Peter Lamborn Wilson, Fidel Ramos, John Aniston, Kunimitsu Takahashi, William Klein, and Milutin Šoškić.

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In China

Among people born in China, Yi-Fu Tuan ranks 719 out of 1,392Before him are Sakya Pandita (1182), Toshiko Akiyoshi (1929), Meng Hongwei (1953), Wei Yuan (1794), Wu Bangguo (1941), and Chen Jiongming (1878). After him are Huang Hua (1913), Fujio Akatsuka (1935), Wang Huning (1955), Xie Lingyun (385), Xu Caihou (1943), and Yang Liwei (1965).

Among GEOGRAPHERS In China

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