The Most Famous
BIOLOGISTS from Peru
This page contains a list of the greatest Peruvian Biologists. The pantheon dataset contains 1,097 Biologists, 1 of which were born in Peru. This makes Peru the birth place of the 51st most number of Biologists behind Egypt, and Réunion.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Peruvian Biologists of all time. This list of famous Peruvian Biologists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Juliane Koepcke (b. 1954)
With an HPI of 53.41, Juliane Koepcke is the most famous Peruvian Biologist. Her biography has been translated into 23 different languages on wikipedia.
Juliane Margaret Beate Koepcke /Joo-lia-nay, KOP-kay/ (born 10 October 1954), also known by her married name Juliane Diller, is a German-Peruvian mammalogist who specialises in bats. The daughter of German zoologists Maria and Hans-Wilhelm Koepcke, she became famous at the age of 17 as the sole survivor of the 1971 LANSA Flight 508 plane crash; after falling 3,000 m (10,000 ft) while strapped to her seat and suffering numerous injuries, she survived 11 days alone in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest until she was rescued by local lumberjacks after finding their camp.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Peruvian biologists born between 1954 and 1954. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Peruvian biologists include Juliane Koepcke.
