ANTHROPOLOGIST

Raymond Dart

1893 - 1988

Raymond Dart

Raymond Arthur Dart (4 February 1893 – 22 November 1988) was an Australian anatomist and anthropologist, best known for his involvement in the 1924 discovery of the first fossil found of Australopithecus africanus, an extinct hominin closely related to humans, at Taung in the North of South Africa in the Northwest province. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Raymond Dart is the 24th most popular anthropologist (up from 29th in 2019), the 73rd most popular biography from Australia (down from 69th in 2019) and the most popular Australian Anthropologist.

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Raymond Dart ranks 24 out of 93. Before him are E. E. Evans-Pritchard, Mary Leakey, Mary Douglas, Victor Turner, Wilhelm Schmidt, and Marvin Harris. After him are Andrey Korotayev, Edward T. Hall, Jacques de Morgan, Ann Dunham, Marshall Sahlins, and Marc Augé.

Most Popular Anthropologists in Wikipedia

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E. E. Evans-Pritchard
1902 - 1973
HPI: 65.28
Rank: 18
Mary Leakey
1913 - 1996
HPI: 65.22
Rank: 19
Mary Douglas
1921 - 2007
HPI: 64.89
Rank: 20
Victor Turner
1920 - 1983
HPI: 64.56
Rank: 21
Wilhelm Schmidt
1868 - 1954
HPI: 64.38
Rank: 22
Marvin Harris
1927 - 2001
HPI: 64.16
Rank: 23
Raymond Dart
1893 - 1988
HPI: 64.14
Rank: 24
Andrey Korotayev
1961 - Present
HPI: 64.09
Rank: 25
Edward T. Hall
1914 - 2009
HPI: 64.09
Rank: 26
Jacques de Morgan
1857 - 1924
HPI: 63.72
Rank: 27
Ann Dunham
1942 - 1995
HPI: 63.41
Rank: 28
Marshall Sahlins
1930 - 2021
HPI: 63.24
Rank: 29
Marc Augé
1935 - 2023
HPI: 63.00
Rank: 30

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Raymond Dart ranks 79. Before him are Richard Dix, Nicholas J. Spykman, Roman Ingarden, William Dieterle, Kurt Huber, and Mário de Andrade. After him are Feroz Khan Noon, Leonarda Cianciulli, Luigi Carlo Borromeo, Armand Călinescu, Marianne Brandt, and Frederick William Franz. Among people deceased in 1988, Raymond Dart ranks 60. Before him are Piero Taruffi, Isamu Noguchi, René Char, Antonín Puč, Viktors Arājs, and Renato Salvatori. After him are Bluma Zeigarnik, Sergey Gorshkov, Takeo Miki, Lev Pontryagin, George Uhlenbeck, and Vladimír Menšík.

Others Born in 1893

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Richard Dix
ACTOR
1893 - 1949
HPI: 64.37
Rank: 73
Nicholas J. Spykman
POLITICIAN
1893 - 1943
HPI: 64.34
Rank: 74
Roman Ingarden
PHILOSOPHER
1893 - 1970
HPI: 64.32
Rank: 75
William Dieterle
ACTOR
1893 - 1972
HPI: 64.31
Rank: 76
Kurt Huber
POLITICIAN
1893 - 1943
HPI: 64.20
Rank: 77
Mário de Andrade
WRITER
1893 - 1945
HPI: 64.14
Rank: 78
Raymond Dart
ANTHROPOLOGIST
1893 - 1988
HPI: 64.14
Rank: 79
Feroz Khan Noon
POLITICIAN
1893 - 1970
HPI: 63.97
Rank: 80
Leonarda Cianciulli
EXTREMIST
1893 - 1970
HPI: 63.93
Rank: 81
Luigi Carlo Borromeo
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
1893 - 1975
HPI: 63.90
Rank: 82
Armand Călinescu
POLITICIAN
1893 - 1939
HPI: 63.90
Rank: 83
Marianne Brandt
ARTIST
1893 - 1983
HPI: 63.90
Rank: 84
Frederick William Franz
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
1893 - 1992
HPI: 63.90
Rank: 85