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Alexander Wilson

1766 - 1813

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Alexander Wilson (July 6, 1766 – August 23, 1813) was a Scottish-American poet, ornithologist, naturalist, and illustrator. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Wilson has received more than 47,204 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Alexander Wilson is the 788th most popular biologist (down from 586th in 2019), the 3,964th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,874th in 2019) and the 120th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Alexander Wilson ranks 788 out of 841Before him are Sereno Watson, Félix de Avelar Brotero, Charles Conrad Abbott, Judah Folkman, Nikolay Timofeev-Ressovsky, and Herbert Giles. After him are Spencer Fullerton Baird, Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers, Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet, André Marie Constant Duméril, Jan Sztolcman, and Vladimir Leontyevich Komarov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1766, Alexander Wilson ranks 33Before him are Samuel Frederick Gray, Joseph Franz von Jacquin, Benjamin Smith Barton, John Farey Sr., Wilhelm Hisinger, and William Townsend Aiton. After him is Isaac D'Israeli. Among people deceased in 1813, Alexander Wilson ranks 35Before him are Edmund Randolph, Benjamin Rush, Infanta Maria Ana Francisca of Portugal, Robert R. Livingston, Robert Kerr, and Sophronius of Vratsa. After him are James Wyatt, Peter Jacob Hjelm, Zebulon Pike, Samuel Osgood, George Clymer, and Benjamin Stoddert.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Alexander Wilson ranks 3,964 out of 7,765Before him are Thomas Love Peacock (1785), Delia Derbyshire (1937), Donald Campbell (1921), Herbert Giles (1845), Christopher O'Neill (1974), and Jayne Atkinson (1959). After him are Pauline Baynes (1922), Ed Skrein (1983), Walter Winterbottom (1913), Liz Smith (1921), Sandy Powell (1960), and Beth Gibbons (1965).

Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Alexander Wilson ranks 120Before him are Thomas Andrew Knight (1759), George Arnott Walker-Arnott (1799), Lilian Gibbs (1870), Thomas Thomson (1817), Richard Anthony Salisbury (1761), and Herbert Giles (1845). After him are Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet (1800), Thomas Nuttall (1786), Reginald Innes Pocock (1863), Robert Wight (1796), Robert Morison (1620), and Osbert Salvin (1835).