1723 - 1816
Adam Ferguson, FRSE (Scottish Gaelic: Adhamh MacFhearghais), also known as Ferguson of Raith (1 July N.S./20 June O.S. 1723 – 22 February 1816), was a Scottish philosopher and historian of the Scottish Enlightenment. Ferguson was sympathetic to traditional societies, such as the Highlands, for producing courage and loyalty. He criticized commercial society as making men weak, dishonourable and unconcerned for their community. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adam Ferguson has received more than 165,443 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia. Adam Ferguson is the 492nd most popular philosopher (up from 518th in 2019), the 1,035th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,077th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular British Philosopher.
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Among philosophers, Adam Ferguson ranks 492 out of 1,089. Before him are André Gorz, Philodemus, A. J. Ayer, Eduard Spranger, John Toland, and Karl Löwith. After him are Nezahualcoyotl, Eudemus of Rhodes, Shantideva, Hasdai Crescas, Carl Stumpf, and William of Champeaux.
1923 - 2007
HPI: 68.42
Rank: 486
110 BC - 35 BC
HPI: 68.38
Rank: 487
1910 - 1989
HPI: 68.37
Rank: 488
1882 - 1963
HPI: 68.37
Rank: 489
1670 - 1722
HPI: 68.35
Rank: 490
1897 - 1973
HPI: 68.35
Rank: 491
1723 - 1816
HPI: 68.31
Rank: 492
1402 - 1472
HPI: 68.30
Rank: 493
370 BC - 300 BC
HPI: 68.26
Rank: 494
685 - 763
HPI: 68.26
Rank: 495
1340 - 1410
HPI: 68.24
Rank: 496
1848 - 1936
HPI: 68.22
Rank: 497
1070 - 1121
HPI: 68.18
Rank: 498
Among people born in 1723, Adam Ferguson ranks 7. Before him are Adam Smith, Baron d'Holbach, Frederick V of Denmark, Joshua Reynolds, Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, and Carl Friedrich Abel. After him are Mathurin Jacques Brisson, Anna Amalia, Abbess of Quedlinburg, Johann Bernhard Basedow, Jean-François Marmontel, Tobias Mayer, and Nicole-Reine Lepaute. Among people deceased in 1816, Adam Ferguson ranks 9. Before him are Maria Ludovika of Austria-Este, Pierre Augereau, Francisco de Miranda, Frederick I of Württemberg, Roger Ducos, and Gavrila Derzhavin. After him are Charles II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Bülow, Friedrich Karl Ludwig, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, Johann Hieronymus Schröter, Frederick William, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg, and Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau.
1723 - 1790
HPI: 91.58
Rank: 1
1723 - 1789
HPI: 77.99
Rank: 2
1723 - 1766
HPI: 76.23
Rank: 3
1723 - 1792
HPI: 74.10
Rank: 4
1723 - 1788
HPI: 71.34
Rank: 5
1723 - 1787
HPI: 71.00
Rank: 6
1723 - 1816
HPI: 68.31
Rank: 7
1723 - 1806
HPI: 67.91
Rank: 8
1723 - 1787
HPI: 67.89
Rank: 9
1723 - 1790
HPI: 67.75
Rank: 10
1723 - 1799
HPI: 67.12
Rank: 11
1723 - 1762
HPI: 66.19
Rank: 12
1723 - 1788
HPI: 65.51
Rank: 13
1787 - 1816
HPI: 72.14
Rank: 3
1757 - 1816
HPI: 71.87
Rank: 4
1750 - 1816
HPI: 71.51
Rank: 5
1754 - 1816
HPI: 69.92
Rank: 6
1747 - 1816
HPI: 68.53
Rank: 7
1743 - 1816
HPI: 68.47
Rank: 8
1723 - 1816
HPI: 68.31
Rank: 9
1741 - 1816
HPI: 68.03
Rank: 10
1755 - 1816
HPI: 66.55
Rank: 11
1757 - 1816
HPI: 66.08
Rank: 12
1745 - 1816
HPI: 65.92
Rank: 13
1768 - 1816
HPI: 65.84
Rank: 14
1737 - 1816
HPI: 64.93
Rank: 15
Among people born in United Kingdom, Adam Ferguson ranks 1,035 out of 6,924. Before him are Edmund Leighton (1852), John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich (1718), Lord Alfred Douglas (1870), Roddy McDowall (1928), Michael Nyman (1944), and Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald (1775). After him are Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire (1477), Isabella Bird (1831), James Dewar (1842), Peter Shilton (1949), Karl Jenkins (1944), and Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803).
1852 - 1922
HPI: 68.35
Rank: 1,029
1718 - 1792
HPI: 68.33
Rank: 1,030
1870 - 1945
HPI: 68.33
Rank: 1,031
1928 - 1998
HPI: 68.32
Rank: 1,032
1944 - Present
HPI: 68.32
Rank: 1,033
1775 - 1860
HPI: 68.32
Rank: 1,034
1723 - 1816
HPI: 68.31
Rank: 1,035
1477 - 1539
HPI: 68.31
Rank: 1,036
1831 - 1904
HPI: 68.30
Rank: 1,037
1842 - 1923
HPI: 68.29
Rank: 1,038
1949 - Present
HPI: 68.28
Rank: 1,039
1944 - Present
HPI: 68.28
Rank: 1,040
1803 - 1873
HPI: 68.27
Rank: 1,041
Among philosophers born in United Kingdom, Adam Ferguson ranks 32. Before him are Francis Hutcheson (1694), Alan Watts (1915), Roger Scruton (1944), Alasdair MacIntyre (1929), Gilbert Ryle (1900), and A. J. Ayer (1910). After him are Harriet Taylor Mill (1807), John Austin (1790), Thomas Reid (1710), R. G. Collingwood (1889), David Hartley (1705), and Alexander of Hales (1175).
1694 - 1746
HPI: 69.48
Rank: 26
1915 - 1973
HPI: 69.42
Rank: 27
1944 - 2020
HPI: 68.94
Rank: 28
1929 - Present
HPI: 68.65
Rank: 29
1900 - 1976
HPI: 68.57
Rank: 30
1910 - 1989
HPI: 68.37
Rank: 31
1723 - 1816
HPI: 68.31
Rank: 32
1807 - 1858
HPI: 67.95
Rank: 33
1790 - 1859
HPI: 67.62
Rank: 34
1710 - 1796
HPI: 67.34
Rank: 35
1889 - 1943
HPI: 67.28
Rank: 36
1705 - 1757
HPI: 67.19
Rank: 37
1175 - 1245
HPI: 67.10
Rank: 38