ANTHROPOLOGIST

Jane Goodall

1934 - Today

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Dame Jane Morris Goodall (; born Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall; 3 April 1934), formerly Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall, is an English zoologist, primatologist and anthropologist. She is considered the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, after 60 years' studying the social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees. Goodall first went to Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania to observe its chimpanzees in 1960. She is the founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and the Roots & Shoots programme and has worked extensively on conservation and animal welfare issues. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jane Goodall is the 3rd most popular anthropologist (up from 4th in 2019), the 289th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 272nd in 2019) and the most popular British Anthropologist.

Jane Goodall is most famous for her groundbreaking research on chimpanzees in Tanzania. She is also an author, lecturer, and animal rights activist.

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Jane Goodall ranks 3 out of 93. Before her are Claude Lévi-Strauss, and Bronisław Malinowski. After her are James George Frazer, Edward Burnett Tylor, Lewis H. Morgan, A. L. Kroeber, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Franz Boas, Paul Broca, and Gregory Bateson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Jane Goodall ranks 20. Before her are Carl Sagan, Leonid Kravchuk, Norman Schwarzkopf Jr., Giovanni Battista Re, Nana Mouskouri, and Judi Dench. After her are Daniel Kahneman, Shirley MacLaine, Tarcisio Bertone, William F. Sharpe, Manuel Noriega, and Stjepan Mesić.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Jane Goodall ranks 289 out of 8,785. Before her are Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex (1964), Judi Dench (1934), David Gilmour (1946), Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York (1341), Thomas Henry Huxley (1825), and Thomas Young (1773). After her are Jason Statham (1967), Henry I of England (1068), James Black (1924), Mary Tudor, Queen of France (1496), Francis William Aston (1877), and George Best (1946).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among anthropologists born in United Kingdom, Jane Goodall ranks 1. After her are James George Frazer (1854), Edward Burnett Tylor (1832), Gregory Bateson (1904), Alfred Radcliffe-Brown (1881), E. E. Evans-Pritchard (1902), Mary Leakey (1913), Victor Turner (1920), Edmund Leach (1910), Ashley Montagu (1905), Jack Goody (1919), and Hugh Falconer (1808).

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