ANTHROPOLOGIST
Louis Dumont
1911 - 1998
Louis Dumont
Louis Charles Jean Dumont (11 August 1911 – 19 November 1998) was a French anthropologist. Dumont was born in Thessaloniki, in the Salonica Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire. He taught at Oxford University during the 1950s, and was then director of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. A specialist on the cultures and societies of India, Dumont also studied western social philosophy and ideologies. Read more on Wikipedia
His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Louis Dumont is the 46th most popular anthropologist (down from 42nd in 2019), the 583rd most popular biography from Greece (down from 545th in 2019) and the most popular Greek Anthropologist.
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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS
Among anthropologists, Louis Dumont ranks 46 out of 93. Before him are Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov, Edwin H. Colbert, John Lloyd Stephens, Georges Vacher de Lapouge, Paolo Mantegazza, and Lubor Niederle. After him are Adolf Bernhard Meyer, Ralph Linton, Edmund Leach, Alfred Sauvy, Bengt Danielsson, and Gilberto Freyre.
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Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov
1907 - 1970
HPI: 60.56
Rank: 40
Edwin H. Colbert
1905 - 2001
HPI: 60.48
Rank: 41
John Lloyd Stephens
1805 - 1852
HPI: 60.08
Rank: 42
Georges Vacher de Lapouge
1854 - 1936
HPI: 59.92
Rank: 43
Paolo Mantegazza
1831 - 1910
HPI: 59.80
Rank: 44
Lubor Niederle
1865 - 1944
HPI: 59.80
Rank: 45
Louis Dumont
1911 - 1998
HPI: 59.73
Rank: 46
Adolf Bernhard Meyer
1840 - 1911
HPI: 59.20
Rank: 47
Ralph Linton
1893 - 1953
HPI: 58.92
Rank: 48
Edmund Leach
1910 - 1989
HPI: 58.86
Rank: 49
Alfred Sauvy
1898 - 1990
HPI: 58.61
Rank: 50
Bengt Danielsson
1921 - 1997
HPI: 58.50
Rank: 51
Gilberto Freyre
1900 - 1987
HPI: 58.37
Rank: 52
Contemporaries
Among people born in 1911, Louis Dumont ranks 161. Before him are Ljubiša Broćić, Peter van Eyck, Theodore Romzha, Kukrit Pramoj, Paul Carell, and Juan Carlos Zabala. After him are Nello Pagani, Hans Münch, Hume Cronyn, Anatoly Rybakov, Gabriel Almond, and Paul Augustin Mayer. Among people deceased in 1998, Louis Dumont ranks 144. Before him are Hide, Nguyễn Văn Linh, Otto Wichterle, Theodor Oberländer, Eric Ambler, and Qian Zhongshu. After him are Joan Brossa, Samuel Eilenberg, Edwige Feuillère, Anatoly Rybakov, Keisuke Kinoshita, and Antonio Saura.
Others Born in 1911
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Ljubiša Broćić
COACH
1911 - 1995
HPI: 60.11
Rank: 155
Peter van Eyck
ACTOR
1911 - 1969
HPI: 59.97
Rank: 156
Theodore Romzha
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
1911 - 1947
HPI: 59.95
Rank: 157
Kukrit Pramoj
POLITICIAN
1911 - 1995
HPI: 59.82
Rank: 158
Paul Carell
POLITICIAN
1911 - 1997
HPI: 59.77
Rank: 159
Juan Carlos Zabala
ATHLETE
1911 - 1983
HPI: 59.77
Rank: 160
Louis Dumont
ANTHROPOLOGIST
1911 - 1998
HPI: 59.73
Rank: 161
Nello Pagani
RACING DRIVER
1911 - 2003
HPI: 59.71
Rank: 162
Hans Münch
PHYSICIAN
1911 - 2001
HPI: 59.67
Rank: 163
Hume Cronyn
ACTOR
1911 - 2003
HPI: 59.66
Rank: 164
Anatoly Rybakov
WRITER
1911 - 1998
HPI: 59.59
Rank: 165
Gabriel Almond
POLITICIAN
1911 - 2002
HPI: 59.54
Rank: 166
Paul Augustin Mayer
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
1911 - 2010
HPI: 59.49
Rank: 167
Others Deceased in 1998
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MUSICIAN
1964 - 1998
HPI: 59.89
Rank: 138
Nguyễn Văn Linh
POLITICIAN
1915 - 1998
HPI: 59.89
Rank: 139
Otto Wichterle
CHEMIST
1913 - 1998
HPI: 59.87
Rank: 140
Theodor Oberländer
POLITICIAN
1905 - 1998
HPI: 59.86
Rank: 141
Eric Ambler
WRITER
1909 - 1998
HPI: 59.75
Rank: 142
Qian Zhongshu
WRITER
1910 - 1998
HPI: 59.75
Rank: 143
Louis Dumont
ANTHROPOLOGIST
1911 - 1998
HPI: 59.73
Rank: 144
Joan Brossa
WRITER
1919 - 1998
HPI: 59.71
Rank: 145
Samuel Eilenberg
MATHEMATICIAN
1913 - 1998
HPI: 59.64
Rank: 146
Edwige Feuillère
ACTOR
1907 - 1998
HPI: 59.59
Rank: 147
Anatoly Rybakov
WRITER
1911 - 1998
HPI: 59.59
Rank: 148
Keisuke Kinoshita
FILM DIRECTOR
1912 - 1998
HPI: 59.53
Rank: 149
Antonio Saura
PAINTER
1930 - 1998
HPI: 59.51
Rank: 150
In Greece
Among people born in Greece, Louis Dumont ranks 583 out of 1,024. Before him are Cineas (-400), Thrasymedes (null), Ioannis Mitropoulos (1874), Geminus (null), Agesipolis II (-400), and Charilaos Trikoupis (1832). After him are Marinella (1938), Machanidas (-254), Apollodorus the Epicurean (-150), Joseph Sifakis (1946), Rhianus (-275), and Ieronymos II of Athens (1938).
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Cineas
PHILOSOPHER
400 BC - 300 BC
HPI: 59.80
Rank: 577
Thrasymedes
POLITICIAN
HPI: 59.78
Rank: 578
Ioannis Mitropoulos
GYMNAST
1874 - 2000
HPI: 59.77
Rank: 579
Geminus
MATHEMATICIAN
HPI: 59.75
Rank: 580
Agesipolis II
POLITICIAN
400 BC - 370 BC
HPI: 59.75
Rank: 581
Charilaos Trikoupis
POLITICIAN
1832 - 1896
HPI: 59.75
Rank: 582
Louis Dumont
ANTHROPOLOGIST
1911 - 1998
HPI: 59.73
Rank: 583
Marinella
SINGER
1938 - Present
HPI: 59.72
Rank: 584
Machanidas
POLITICIAN
254 BC - 207 BC
HPI: 59.71
Rank: 585
Apollodorus the Epicurean
PHILOSOPHER
150 BC - 150 BC
HPI: 59.70
Rank: 586
Joseph Sifakis
COMPUTER SCIENTIST
1946 - Present
HPI: 59.66
Rank: 587
Rhianus
WRITER
275 BC - 300 BC
HPI: 59.65
Rank: 588
Ieronymos II of Athens
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
1938 - Present
HPI: 59.65
Rank: 589
Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In Greece
Among anthropologists born in Greece, Louis Dumont ranks 1.
