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Henry Fairfield Osborn

1857 - 1935

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Henry Fairfield Osborn, Sr. (August 8, 1857 – November 6, 1935) was an American paleontologist, geologist and eugenics advocate. He was professor of anatomy at Columbia University, president of the American Museum of Natural History for 25 years and a cofounder of the American Eugenics Society. Among his significant contributions include naming the dinosaurs Tyrannosaurus and Velociraptor, his widely used system of names for dental cusps of mammalian teeth, as well as his research on fossil proboscideans (elephants and their extinct relatives). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Henry Fairfield Osborn is the 34th most popular anthropologist (up from 35th in 2019), the 3,419th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,284th in 2019) and the 10th most popular American Anthropologist.

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Henry Fairfield Osborn ranks 34 out of 93. Before him are Ann Dunham, Marshall Sahlins, Marc Augé, Fredrik Barth, Richard Leakey, and Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring. After him are Franco Basaglia, Pierre Clastres, Cheikh Anta Diop, Marcel Griaule, David Graeber, and Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1857, Henry Fairfield Osborn ranks 65. Before him are Hermann Sudermann, Alfred Loisy, Duke John Albert of Mecklenburg, Herman Bang, Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, and Princess Marie of Waldeck and Pyrmont. After him are Simon Hollósy, Léon Charles Thévenin, Auguste Serrurier, Wilhelm Kienzl, Oskar von Hutier, and Gotō Shinpei. Among people deceased in 1935, Henry Fairfield Osborn ranks 63. Before him are Edward Carson, Bernhard Schmidt, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Pavlos Kountouriotis, Aleksandër Moisiu, and Otto Schott. After him are Henri Pélissier, René Crevel, Oda Krohg, John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, James Henry Breasted, and Edoardo Agnelli.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Henry Fairfield Osborn ranks 3,419 out of 20,380. Before him are Robert J. Van de Graaff (1901), P. G. T. Beauregard (1818), Sister Rosetta Tharpe (1915), Randy Quaid (1950), Alex North (1910), and Sal Khan (1976). After him are Trini Lopez (1937), Florence Harding (1860), Babushka Lady (1930), James Bond (1900), Charlie Wilson (1933), and James Taylor (1948).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In United States

Among anthropologists born in United States, Henry Fairfield Osborn ranks 10. Before him are Ruth Benedict (1887), Clifford Geertz (1926), Marvin Harris (1927), Edward T. Hall (1914), Ann Dunham (1942), and Marshall Sahlins (1930). After him are David Graeber (1961), Edwin H. Colbert (1905), John Lloyd Stephens (1805), Ralph Linton (1893), Gayle Rubin (1949), and James C. Scott (1936).

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