The Resume

(August 7, 1903-October 1, 1972)
Famed for fossil discoveries at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania
Wrote ‘The Stone Age Cultures of Kenya Colony' and ‘White Africa'
Organized Pan-African Congress of Pre-History
Husband of Mary Leakey

Why he might be annoying:

He was an adulterer and widely considered to be a womanizer.
His philandering cost him an academic career at his alma mater, Cambridge University.
Many in the scientific community considered his wife, Mary, to be a far superior anthropologist.
His support of evolution through fossil evidence angered Creationists.
He worked as a spy for the African Intelligence Department.

Why he might not be annoying:

He popularized the notion that human life originated in Africa.
He was initiated to the Kikuyu tribe and spoke the Kikuyu language fluently.
He graduated Cambridge University with an anthropology degree.
He helped launch significant primate studies by Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey.
The National Geographic Society presented him with the distinguished Gold Hubbard Medal (1962).
Time Magazine named him as one of their ‘Most Important People of the Twentieth Century (1998).'

Credit: D

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• 20th Century Scientists
• Double L Initials
• D's Profiles [Series 03]
• I am an Adulterer
• I Attended Cambridge
• I Died in 1972 (Ranked: 69)
• Profiles 17251-17500 (Ranked: 17465)
• Scientists
• Silver Foxes [Gray and Don't Care]
• Starbucks ‘The Way I See It’ Quotations
• Time Magazine's 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century [1998]

Year In Review:

In 2023, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 8 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 14 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 4 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 5 Votes: 20.0% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 19 Votes: 52.63% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 14 Votes: 71.43% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 19 Votes: 36.84% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 16 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 42 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 44 Votes: 47.73% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 67 Votes: 35.82% Annoying
In 2007, Out of 113 Votes: 49.56% Annoying
In 2006, Out of 206 Votes: 56.80% Annoying