20th-century anthropologists

The list 20th-century anthropologists includes Josef Mengele, Zora Neale Hurston, Jane Goodall, Cleo Odzer and Ann Dunham. The list consists of 850 members and 10 sublists.

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20th-century archaeologists
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20th-century American anthropologists
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20th-century British anthropologists
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20th-century Irish anthropologists
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20th-century French anthropologists
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20th-century Indian anthropologists
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20th-century German anthropologists
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Soviet anthropologists
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Yugoslav anthropologists
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1.

Josef Mengele

German, Criminal

Overview: Josef Mengele ( 16 March 1911 – 7 February 1979), also known as the Angel of Death (German: Todesengel) and the White Angel (German: der Weisse Engel or Weißer Engel), was a German Schutzstaffel ...

Date of birth: 16 March 1911

Date of death: 7 February 1979

Age: 67 (age at death)

Nationality: German

Occupation: Criminal

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)

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20th-century German anthropologists 18T

Auschwitz concentration camp medical personnel 24T

Formerly wanted fugitives 150T
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Zora Neale Hurston

American author, anthropologist, filmmaker (1891–1960)

Overview: Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 – January 28, 1960) was an American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-1900s American South and published research on ...

Date of birth: 7 January 1891

Date of death: 28 January 1960

Age: 69 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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American Folklorists of Color 15T

20th-century American women scientists 967T

Zora Neale Hurston 4T
3.

Jane Goodall

English primatologist and anthropologist (born 1934)

Overview: Dame Jane Morris Goodall DBE (born Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall on 3 April 1934), formerly Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall, is an English primatologist and anthropologist. Considered to be the world's ...

Date of birth: 3 April 1934

Age: 91

Nationality: English

Occupation: Scientist

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 5" (165 cm)

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British women anthropologists 81T

21st-century British women scientists 87T

Members of the Society of Woman Geographers 64T
4.

Cleo Odzer

American writer and anthropologist (1950-2001)

Overview: Cleo Odzer (born Sheila Lynne Odzer, April 6, 1950 – March 26, 2001) was an American author and anthropologist renowned for her works exploring subcultures, including prostitution in Thailand, the hippie ...

Date of birth: 16 April 1950

Date of death: 26 March 2001

Age: 50 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Model

Gender: Male

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20th-century American anthropologists 525T

Hippies 29T

American women columnists 510T
5.

Ann Dunham

Anthropologist; mother of Barack Obama

Overview: Stanley Ann Dunham (November 29, 1942 – November 7, 1995) was an American anthropologist who specialized in the economic anthropology and rural development of Indonesia. She was the mother of Barack Obama ...

Date of birth: 29 November 1942

Date of death: 7 November 1995

Age: 52 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Anthropologist

Gender: Female

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Mercer Island High School alumni 24T

20th-century American women scientists 967T

20th-century American scientists 1,238T
6.

Dian Fossey

American zoologist

Overview: Dian Fossey (, January 16, 1932 – c.) was an American primatologist and conservationist known for undertaking an extensive study of mountain gorilla groups from 1966 until her 1985 murder. She studied ...

Date of birth: 16 January 1932

Date of death: 26 December 1985

Age: 53 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Scientist

Gender: Female

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20th-century American women scientists 967T

1980s murders in Rwanda 1T

1985 murders in Africa 6T
7.

Katherine Dunham

American dancer and choreographer (1909–2006)

Overview: Katherine Mary Dunham (June 22, 1909 – May 21, 2006) was an American dancer, choreographer, anthropologist, and social activist. Dunham had one of the most successful dance careers of the 20th century ...

Date of birth: 22 June 1910

Date of death: 21 May 2006

Age: 95 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Dancer

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)

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20th-century American women scientists 967T

Dancers from Illinois 39T

Joliet Junior College alumni 10T
8.

Alfredo E. Evangelista

Filipino archaeologist

Overview: Alfredo E. Evangelista (1926 – October 18, 2008) was a Filipino archeologist and former director of the Anthropology Division of the National Museum of the Philippines.

Date of birth: 1926

Date of death: 18 October 2008

Age: 82 (age at death)

Nationality: Filipino

Occupation: Anthropologist

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People from San Pedro, Laguna 6T

People from Davao City 95T

20th-century archaeologists 857T
9.

Michel Foucault

French philosopher (1926–1984)

Overview: Paul-Michel Doria Foucault ( FOO-koh, foo-KOH; 15 October 1926 – 25 June 1984) was a French philosopher, historian of ideas, writer, political activist, and literary critic.

Date of birth: 15 October 1926

Date of death: 26 June 1984

Age: 57 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Philosopher

Gender: Male

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French psychedelic drug advocates 5T

French social commentators 30T

LGBT philosophers 31T
10.

Robert Ripley

American cartoonist

Overview: LeRoy Robert Ripley (February 22, 1890 – May 27, 1949) was an American cartoonist, entrepreneur and amateur anthropologist who is known for creating the Ripley's Believe It or Not! newspaper panel series ...

Date of birth: 25 December 1890

Date of death: 27 May 1949

Age: 58 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Curator

Gender: Male

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Pseudoarchaeologists 35T

Amateur anthropologists 20T

Ripley's Believe It or Not! 18T
11.

Mary Leakey

British paleoanthropologist (1913–1996)

Overview: Mary Douglas Leakey, FBA (née Nicol, 6 February 1913 – 9 December 1996) was a British paleoanthropologist who discovered the first fossilised Proconsul skull, an extinct ape which is now believed to be ...

Date of birth: 6 February 1913

Date of death: 9 December 1996

Age: 83 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Anthropologist

Gender: Female

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British women anthropologists 81T

Members of the Society of Woman Geographers 64T

20th-century American women scientists 967T
12.

Eslanda Robeson

American anthropologist and activist

Overview: Eslanda "Essie" Cardozo Goode Robeson (December 15, 1895 – December 13, 1965) was an American anthropologist, author, actress, and civil rights activist. She was the wife and business manager of ...

Date of birth: 15 December 1895

Date of death: 13 December 1965

Age: 69 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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Women in Film (pioneers) 168T

People from Enfield, Connecticut 28T

20th-century American women writers 5,363T
13.

E. Arsenio Manuel

Philippine academic, historian, and anthropologist

Overview: E. Arsenio Manuel (1909 - 2003) was a Philippine academic, historian, and anthropologist best known for his contributions to Philippine anthropology, history, literature, and linguistics. During a th ...

Date of birth: 1909

Date of death: 2003

Age: 93 (age at death)

Nationality: Filipino

Occupation: Anthropologist

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Filipino anthropologists 8T

20th-century historians 3,336T

Filipino historians 46T
14.

B. R. Ambedkar

Indian politician

Overview: Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (14 April 1891 – 6 December 1956), also known as Babasaheb Ambedkar was an Indian jurist, economist, politician and social reformer, who inspired the Dalit Buddhist movement and ...

Date of birth: 14 April 1891

Date of death: 6 December 1956

Age: 65 (age at death)

Nationality: Indian

Occupation: Politician

Gender: Female

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Members of the Council of the Governor General of India 103T

Scheduled Castes Federation politician 8T

Anti-caste activists 23T
15.

Robert Bradford Fox

Filipino historian

Overview: Robert Bradford Fox (1918-1985) was an anthropologist and leading historian on pre-Hispanic Philippines.

Date of birth: 1918

Date of death: 1985

Age: 66 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Anthropologist

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Historians of the Philippines 6T

20th-century historians 3,336T

Filipino historians 46T
16.

F. Landa Jocano

Filipino anthropologist

Overview: Felipe Landa Jocano (February 5, 1930 – October 27, 2013) was a Filipino anthropologist, educator, and author known for his significant body of work within the field of Philippine Anthropology, and in ...

Date of birth: 5 February 1930

Date of death: 27 October 2013

Age: 83 (age at death)

Nationality: Filipino

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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21st-century Filipino writers 18T

20th-century Filipino writers 41T

21st-century male writers 1,614T
17.

William James Sidis

American prodigy

Overview: William James Sidis (April 1, 1898 – July 17, 1944) was an American child prodigy with exceptional mathematical and linguistic skills. He is notable for his 1920 book The Animate and the Inanimate, in ...

Date of birth: 1 April 1898

Date of death: 17 July 1944

Age: 46 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Inventor

Gender: Male

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American spiritualists 65T

20th-century American historians 1,828T

20th-century American mathematicians 2,244T
18.

Peter Freuchen

Danish explorer and anthropologist (1886–1957)

Overview: Lorenz Peter Elfred Freuchen (February 20, 1886 – September 2, 1957) was a Danish explorer, author, journalist and anthropologist. He is notable for his role in Arctic exploration, namely the Thule ...

Date of birth: 20 February 1886

Date of death: 2 September 1957

Age: 71 (age at death)

Nationality: Danish

Occupation: Explorer

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 7" (201 cm)

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20th-century Danish journalists 36T

Danish amputees 1T

Scandinavian explorers of North America 25T
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R H Barlow

American anthropoloigst

Overview: Robert Hayward Barlow (May 18, 1918 – January 1 or 2, 1951) was an American author, avant-garde poet, anthropologist and historian of early Mexico, and expert in the Nahuatl language. He was a correspondent ...

Date of birth: 18 May 1918

Date of death: 2 January 1951

Age: 32 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Author

Gender: Male

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20th-century American anthropologists 500T

American gay writers 1,144T

Gay scientists 69T
20.

Claude Lévi-Strauss

French anthropologist and ethnologist (1908–2009)

Overview: Claude Lévi-Strauss (28 November 1908 – 30 October 2009) was a French anthropologist and ethnologist, born in Belgium to French-Jewish parents living in Bruxelles, whose work was key in the development ...

Date of birth: 27 November 1908

Date of death: 30 October 2009

Age: 100 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Philosopher

Gender: Male

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20th-century French memoirists 10T

20th-century French Jews 256T

Philosophers of linguistics 27T