1851 - 1931
David Starr Jordan (January 19, 1851 – September 19, 1931) was the founding president of Stanford University, serving from 1891 to 1913. He was an ichthyologist during his research career. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Starr Jordan has received more than 487,005 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). David Starr Jordan is the 515th most popular biologist (up from 736th in 2019), the 4,981st most popular biography from United States (up from 7,227th in 2019) and the 74th most popular American Biologist.
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Among biologists, David Starr Jordan ranks 515 out of 841. Before him are Juliane Koepcke, Hugo von Mohl, Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten, Charles David Keeling, Heinrich Schrader, and Ernst Rudolf von Trautvetter. After him are Johan Ernst Gunnerus, Rudolf Schlechter, George Albert Boulenger, Emil Racoviță, Richard Bowdler Sharpe, and Eduard August von Regel.
1954 - Present
HPI: 49.50
Rank: 509
1805 - 1872
HPI: 49.50
Rank: 510
1817 - 1908
HPI: 49.50
Rank: 511
1928 - 2005
HPI: 49.50
Rank: 512
1767 - 1836
HPI: 49.48
Rank: 513
1809 - 1889
HPI: 49.48
Rank: 514
1851 - 1931
HPI: 49.46
Rank: 515
1718 - 1773
HPI: 49.41
Rank: 516
1872 - 1925
HPI: 49.40
Rank: 517
1858 - 1937
HPI: 49.39
Rank: 518
1868 - 1947
HPI: 49.39
Rank: 519
1847 - 1909
HPI: 49.38
Rank: 520
1815 - 1892
HPI: 49.38
Rank: 521
Among people born in 1851, David Starr Jordan ranks 62. Before him are Jane Dieulafoy, Edward Robert Hughes, Arnold Pick, Noël Édouard, vicomte de Curières de Castelnau, Ruperto Chapí, and George Abraham Grierson. After him are Václav Brožík, Laza Lazarević, Andrea Costa, Andrei Zhelyabov, Stanisław Witkiewicz, and Herbert Lawford. Among people deceased in 1931, David Starr Jordan ranks 88. Before him are Albert, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, Lya De Putti, Dmitri Egorov, Wilson Bentley, Alwin Berger, and Alice Pike Barney. After him are Tommaso Tittoni, Cosmo Duff-Gordon, Buddy Bolden, Lupu Pick, Ida B. Wells, and Kinue Hitomi.
1851 - 1916
HPI: 50.86
Rank: 56
1851 - 1914
HPI: 50.26
Rank: 57
1851 - 1924
HPI: 50.21
Rank: 58
1851 - 1944
HPI: 49.97
Rank: 59
1851 - 1909
HPI: 49.74
Rank: 60
1851 - 1941
HPI: 49.54
Rank: 61
1851 - 1931
HPI: 49.46
Rank: 62
1851 - 1901
HPI: 49.38
Rank: 63
1851 - 1891
HPI: 49.19
Rank: 64
1851 - 1910
HPI: 48.73
Rank: 65
1851 - 1881
HPI: 48.63
Rank: 66
1851 - 1915
HPI: 48.28
Rank: 67
1851 - 1925
HPI: 48.23
Rank: 68
1869 - 1931
HPI: 50.25
Rank: 82
1897 - 1931
HPI: 50.17
Rank: 83
1869 - 1931
HPI: 49.98
Rank: 84
1865 - 1931
HPI: 49.60
Rank: 85
1871 - 1931
HPI: 49.51
Rank: 86
1857 - 1931
HPI: 49.46
Rank: 87
1851 - 1931
HPI: 49.46
Rank: 88
1855 - 1931
HPI: 49.46
Rank: 89
1862 - 1931
HPI: 49.28
Rank: 90
1877 - 1931
HPI: 49.24
Rank: 91
1886 - 1931
HPI: 49.19
Rank: 92
1862 - 1931
HPI: 48.96
Rank: 93
1907 - 1931
HPI: 48.95
Rank: 94
Among people born in United States, David Starr Jordan ranks 4,981 out of 18,182. Before him are Maxie Long (1878), Tony Joe White (1943), Mike Mangini (1963), Jimmy Cobb (1929), Chris Hughes (1983), and Melanie (1947). After him are Frank Muller (1862), Connie Sawyer (1912), Embeth Davidtz (1965), Jamie Hyneman (1956), Tony Visconti (1944), and Tony Amendola (1951).
1878 - 1959
HPI: 49.46
Rank: 4,975
1943 - 2018
HPI: 49.46
Rank: 4,976
1963 - Present
HPI: 49.46
Rank: 4,977
1929 - 2020
HPI: 49.46
Rank: 4,978
1983 - Present
HPI: 49.46
Rank: 4,979
1947 - 2024
HPI: 49.46
Rank: 4,980
1851 - 1931
HPI: 49.46
Rank: 4,981
1862 - 1917
HPI: 49.46
Rank: 4,982
1912 - 2018
HPI: 49.45
Rank: 4,983
1965 - Present
HPI: 49.45
Rank: 4,984
1956 - Present
HPI: 49.45
Rank: 4,985
1944 - Present
HPI: 49.45
Rank: 4,986
1951 - Present
HPI: 49.45
Rank: 4,987
Among biologists born in United States, David Starr Jordan ranks 74. Before him are Sewall Wright (1889), Esther Lederberg (1922), Craig Mello (1960), Garrett Hardin (1915), Aldo Leopold (1887), and Charles David Keeling (1928). After him are Arthur Cronquist (1919), George C. Williams (1926), Robert Sapolsky (1957), Mary Agnes Chase (1869), Paul R. Ehrlich (1932), and Richard Lewontin (1929).
1889 - 1988
HPI: 50.67
Rank: 68
1922 - 2006
HPI: 50.37
Rank: 69
1960 - Present
HPI: 50.04
Rank: 70
1915 - 2003
HPI: 50.00
Rank: 71
1887 - 1948
HPI: 49.77
Rank: 72
1928 - 2005
HPI: 49.50
Rank: 73
1851 - 1931
HPI: 49.46
Rank: 74
1919 - 1992
HPI: 49.30
Rank: 75
1926 - 2010
HPI: 49.25
Rank: 76
1957 - Present
HPI: 49.24
Rank: 77
1869 - 1963
HPI: 49.21
Rank: 78
1932 - Present
HPI: 48.88
Rank: 79
1929 - 2021
HPI: 48.77
Rank: 80