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Roy Chapman Andrews

1884 - 1960

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Roy Chapman Andrews (January 26, 1884 – March 11, 1960) was an American explorer, adventurer, and naturalist who became the director of the American Museum of Natural History. He led a series of expeditions through the politically disturbed China of the early 20th century into the Gobi Desert and Mongolia. The expeditions made important discoveries and brought the first-known fossil dinosaur eggs to the museum. Chapman's popular writing about his adventures made him famous. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Roy Chapman Andrews is the 292nd most popular explorer (up from 316th in 2019), the 4,591st most popular biography from United States (up from 4,630th in 2019) and the 21st most popular American Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Roy Chapman Andrews ranks 292 out of 498. Before him are Nuno Tristão, Francis Younghusband, Jim Bridger, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, Anthony Jenkinson, and Eusebio Kino. After him are Wulfstan of Hedeby, Jean Louis Marie Poiret, Ingvar the Far-Travelled, Grigory Potanin, Franz de Paula Adam von Waldstein, and Juan Pizarro.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Roy Chapman Andrews ranks 111. Before him are Joseph Sweeney, George David Birkhoff, Henri Queuille, Arnaud Denjoy, Sofiya Nalepinska-Boychuk, and Maciej Rataj. After him are Félix Éboué, Sekula Drljević, Frank Waller, Ludowika Jakobsson, Solomon Lefschetz, and Dénes Kőnig. Among people deceased in 1960, Roy Chapman Andrews ranks 105. Before him are Leo Spitzer, Otto Ender, Gottfried, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Sylvia Pankhurst, Adone Zoli, and Frank Elmore Ross. After him are Erich Neumann, Zora Neale Hurston, Pavel Peter Gojdič, Maud Menten, Eduard Pütsep, and Yury Olesha.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Roy Chapman Andrews ranks 4,591 out of 20,380. Before him are Elliott Carter (1908), Ken Myers (1896), John Stagliano (1951), Desireé Cousteau (1956), Sandra Day O'Connor (1930), and Benjamin Apthorp Gould (1824). After him are Howard Da Silva (1909), Jeremiah P. Ostriker (1937), Paul Volcker (1927), Dean Smith (1932), Charles Evans Hughes (1862), and Andre Norton (1912).

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Among EXPLORERS In United States

Among explorers born in United States, Roy Chapman Andrews ranks 21. Before him are Jimmie Angel (1899), Louise Arner Boyd (1887), Ada Blackjack (1898), Jedediah Smith (1799), Charles Wilkes (1798), and Jim Bridger (1804). After him are John C. Frémont (1813), Meriwether Lewis (1774), Elisha Kent Kane (1820), Edward S. Curtis (1868), John Wesley Powell (1834), and Nathaniel Palmer (1799).

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