ARCHAEOLOGIST

Kathleen Kenyon

1906 - 1978

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Dame Kathleen Mary Kenyon, (5 January 1906 – 24 August 1978) was a British archaeologist of Neolithic culture in the Fertile Crescent. She led excavations of Tell es-Sultan, the site of ancient Jericho, from 1952 to 1958, and has been called one of the most influential archaeologists of the 20th century. She was Principal of St Hugh's College, Oxford, from 1962 to 1973, having undertaken her own studies at Somerville College, Oxford. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kathleen Kenyon is the 86th most popular archaeologist (down from 79th in 2019), the 3,252nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,882nd in 2019) and the 16th most popular British Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Kathleen Kenyon ranks 86 out of 151. Before her are Charles W. Gilmore, William F. Albright, Jean-François Séguier, Joseph Orbeli, Hugo Winckler, and Edward Robinson. After her are Ernst Herzfeld, Pierre Montet, Israel Finkelstein, Anne Stine Ingstad, Ernesto Schiaparelli, and Sven Nilsson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Kathleen Kenyon ranks 247. Before her are Óscar Domínguez, Lou Costello, Alexander Rou, Boris Kaufman, Steve Anderson, and Georges Ronsse. After her are Herbert Wehner, Madeleine Carroll, Luo Ruiqing, Alexander Moyzes, Tamara Khanum, and Johnny Hodges. Among people deceased in 1978, Kathleen Kenyon ranks 158. Before her are Leigh Brackett, Eric Frank Russell, Paul Yoshigoro Taguchi, Jānis Daliņš, Leo Ryan, and Artem Alikhanian. After her are Luo Ruiqing, Claude Dauphin, Alexander Wetmore, Alfred Müller-Armack, Theodor Tolsdorff, and Adolf van der Voort van Zijp.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Kathleen Kenyon ranks 3,253 out of 8,785. Before her are Ælfthryth, Countess of Flanders (877), N. E. Brown (1849), Stella McCartney (1971), Tim Pigott-Smith (1946), Jamie Oliver (1975), and Thelma Hopkins (1936). After her are Alex Salmond (1954), Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood (1724), Samuel Morland (1625), Anthony Caro (1924), Nick Rhodes (1962), and Anthony R. Hunter (1943).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among archaeologists born in United Kingdom, Kathleen Kenyon ranks 16. Before her are Max Mallowan (1904), Robert Broom (1866), Colin Groves (1942), Alan Gardiner (1879), James Quibell (1867), and Dorothy Garrod (1892). After her are Dorothea Bate (1878), John Marshall (1876), John Evans (1823), E. A. Wallis Budge (1857), Mortimer Wheeler (1890), and James Mellaart (1925).

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