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David Starr Jordan

1851 - 1931

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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

Among biologists, David Starr Jordan ranks 515 out of 841Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1851, David Starr Jordan ranks 62Before 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 88Before 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.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, David Starr Jordan ranks 4,981 out of 18,182Before 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).

Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, David Starr Jordan ranks 74Before 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).