1774 - 1842
Sir Charles Bell (12 November 1774 – 28 April 1842) was a Scottish surgeon, anatomist, physiologist, neurologist, artist, and philosophical theologian. He is noted for discovering the difference between sensory nerves and motor nerves in the spinal cord. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Bell has received more than 242,852 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Charles Bell is the 186th most popular biologist (down from 159th in 2019), the 1,183rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,068th in 2019) and the 29th most popular British Biologist.
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Among biologists, Charles Bell ranks 186 out of 841. Before him are George Wald, Joseph Banks, Ana Aslan, George Smith, Johann Friedrich Gmelin, and Carl Linnaeus the Younger. After him are Friedrich Parrot, Henry Walter Bates, Johann Matthäus Bechstein, Humberto Maturana, Salim Ali, and Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg.
1906 - 1997
HPI: 58.22
Rank: 180
1743 - 1820
HPI: 58.08
Rank: 181
1897 - 1988
HPI: 58.08
Rank: 182
1941 - Present
HPI: 58.05
Rank: 183
1748 - 1804
HPI: 57.87
Rank: 184
1741 - 1783
HPI: 57.80
Rank: 185
1774 - 1842
HPI: 57.75
Rank: 186
1791 - 1841
HPI: 57.64
Rank: 187
1825 - 1892
HPI: 57.63
Rank: 188
1757 - 1822
HPI: 57.46
Rank: 189
1928 - 2021
HPI: 57.34
Rank: 190
1896 - 1987
HPI: 57.34
Rank: 191
1795 - 1876
HPI: 57.30
Rank: 192
Among people born in 1774, Charles Bell ranks 11. Before him are Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands, Francis Beaufort, Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti, Gaspare Spontini, and Pierre-Narcisse Guérin. After him are William Henry, Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall, Christian Leopold von Buch, Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, Matthew Flinders, and Lord William Bentinck. Among people deceased in 1842, Charles Bell ranks 14. Before him are Clemens Brentano, Bon-Adrien Jeannot de Moncey, Dominique Jean Larrey, Paul Frederick, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Pierre Cambronne, and Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi. After him are Peter Fendi, José de Espronceda, Wojciech Żywny, Francisco Morazán, Sándor Kőrösi Csoma, and Pierre Joseph Pelletier.
1774 - 1837
HPI: 63.43
Rank: 5
1774 - 1857
HPI: 62.88
Rank: 6
1774 - 1838
HPI: 61.33
Rank: 7
1774 - 1849
HPI: 60.84
Rank: 8
1774 - 1851
HPI: 60.68
Rank: 9
1774 - 1833
HPI: 58.83
Rank: 10
1774 - 1842
HPI: 57.75
Rank: 11
1774 - 1836
HPI: 57.51
Rank: 12
1774 - 1856
HPI: 56.75
Rank: 13
1774 - 1853
HPI: 56.68
Rank: 14
1774 - 1850
HPI: 56.60
Rank: 15
1774 - 1814
HPI: 56.00
Rank: 16
1774 - 1839
HPI: 55.57
Rank: 17
1778 - 1842
HPI: 62.15
Rank: 8
1754 - 1842
HPI: 60.70
Rank: 9
1766 - 1842
HPI: 60.10
Rank: 10
1800 - 1842
HPI: 59.88
Rank: 11
1770 - 1842
HPI: 59.56
Rank: 12
1773 - 1842
HPI: 59.09
Rank: 13
1774 - 1842
HPI: 57.75
Rank: 14
1796 - 1842
HPI: 57.36
Rank: 15
1808 - 1842
HPI: 56.56
Rank: 16
1756 - 1842
HPI: 56.37
Rank: 17
1792 - 1842
HPI: 55.37
Rank: 18
1784 - 1842
HPI: 54.67
Rank: 19
1788 - 1842
HPI: 54.66
Rank: 20
Among people born in United Kingdom, Charles Bell ranks 1,183 out of 7,765. Before him are Chris Patten (1944), Peter Collins (1931), Edward Bach (1886), Blanche of Lancaster (1345), Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March (1287), and Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1884). After him are Joan of Kent (1328), Greer Garson (1904), Thomas Hodgkin (1798), Nicko McBrain (1952), William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse (1800), and Dave Murray (1956).
1944 - Present
HPI: 57.78
Rank: 1,177
1931 - 1958
HPI: 57.78
Rank: 1,178
1886 - 1936
HPI: 57.76
Rank: 1,179
1345 - 1368
HPI: 57.76
Rank: 1,180
1287 - 1330
HPI: 57.75
Rank: 1,181
1884 - 1966
HPI: 57.75
Rank: 1,182
1774 - 1842
HPI: 57.75
Rank: 1,183
1328 - 1385
HPI: 57.73
Rank: 1,184
1904 - 1996
HPI: 57.73
Rank: 1,185
1798 - 1866
HPI: 57.71
Rank: 1,186
1952 - Present
HPI: 57.71
Rank: 1,187
1800 - 1867
HPI: 57.71
Rank: 1,188
1956 - Present
HPI: 57.70
Rank: 1,189
Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Charles Bell ranks 29. Before him are Desmond Morris (1928), Charles Scott Sherrington (1952), Anna Atkins (1799), Michael Houghton (1949), J. B. S. Haldane (1892), and Joseph Banks (1743). After him are Henry Walter Bates (1825), John Boyd Orr (1880), Thomas Browne (1605), John Lindley (1799), Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817), and George Shaw (1751).
1928 - Present
HPI: 59.68
Rank: 23
1952 - 1952
HPI: 59.67
Rank: 24
1799 - 1871
HPI: 59.13
Rank: 25
1949 - Present
HPI: 58.70
Rank: 26
1892 - 1964
HPI: 58.29
Rank: 27
1743 - 1820
HPI: 58.08
Rank: 28
1774 - 1842
HPI: 57.75
Rank: 29
1825 - 1892
HPI: 57.63
Rank: 30
1880 - 1971
HPI: 56.92
Rank: 31
1605 - 1682
HPI: 56.32
Rank: 32
1799 - 1865
HPI: 55.72
Rank: 33
1817 - 1911
HPI: 55.34
Rank: 34
1751 - 1813
HPI: 55.24
Rank: 35