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Donald Johanson

1943 - Today

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Donald Carl Johanson (born June 28, 1943) is an American paleoanthropologist. He is best known for discovering the fossil of a female hominin australopithecine known as "Lucy" in the Afar Triangle region of Hadar, Ethiopia. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Donald Johanson is the 65th most popular archaeologist (up from 91st in 2019), the 4,904th most popular biography from United States (up from 6,080th in 2019) and the 6th most popular American Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Donald Johanson ranks 65 out of 151. Before him are Colin Groves, Alan Gardiner, Giuseppe Fiorelli, Adolf Furtwängler, André Parrot, and Heinrich Karl Brugsch. After him are Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet, James Quibell, François Bordes, Johann Andreas Wagner, Dragutin Gorjanović-Kramberger, and Florentino Ameghino.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Donald Johanson ranks 316. Before him are Tuesday Weld, Gary Burton, Giuseppe Versaldi, António Simões, Mulatu Astatke, and Erika Steinbach. After him are James L. Elliot, Patrick D'Rozario, Manuel Velázquez, Muhammad al-Sadr, Michel Ocelot, and Theodor Stolojan.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Donald Johanson ranks 4,904 out of 20,380. Before him are Paul Gallico (1897), Esai Morales (1962), Charlie Kaufman (1958), Maurice Sendak (1928), Mercedes Ruehl (1948), and Glenn Curtiss (1878). After him are Mae Marsh (1894), Elaine Stewart (1930), Max Roach (1924), Walter Short (1880), James L. Elliot (1943), and Leontyne Price (1927).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In United States

Among archaeologists born in United States, Donald Johanson ranks 6. Before him are Edward Drinker Cope (1840), Othniel Charles Marsh (1831), George Gaylord Simpson (1902), Robert Ballard (1942), and James Henry Breasted (1865). After him are Sylvanus Morley (1883), Charles W. Gilmore (1874), Edward Robinson (1794), Robert T. Bakker (1945), Stith Thompson (1885), and Lewis Binford (1932).

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