1810 - 1873
Edward Blyth (23 December 1810 – 27 December 1873) was an English zoologist who worked for most of his life in India as a curator of zoology at the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal in Calcutta. He set about updating the museum's catalogues, publishing a Catalogue of the Birds of the Asiatic Society in 1849. He was prevented from doing much fieldwork himself, but received and described bird specimens from A.O. Hume, Samuel Tickell, Robert Swinhoe among others. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edward Blyth has received more than 112,240 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Edward Blyth is the 671st most popular biologist (down from 494th in 2019), the 3,401st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,536th in 2019) and the 87th most popular British Biologist.
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Among biologists, Edward Blyth ranks 671 out of 841. Before him are Andrew Smith, Heinrich Zollinger, Edward Newton, Eduard Oscar Schmidt, Alfred G. Knudson, and David Ho. After him are Hans von Berlepsch, Marie-Anne Libert, Charles Antoine Lemaire, Elizabeth Gertrude Britton, Ernst Hartert, and Émile Oustalet.
1797 - 1872
HPI: 46.90
Rank: 665
1818 - 1859
HPI: 46.90
Rank: 666
1832 - 1897
HPI: 46.90
Rank: 667
1823 - 1886
HPI: 46.90
Rank: 668
1922 - 2016
HPI: 46.88
Rank: 669
1952 - Present
HPI: 46.86
Rank: 670
1810 - 1873
HPI: 46.86
Rank: 671
1850 - 1915
HPI: 46.85
Rank: 672
1782 - 1865
HPI: 46.81
Rank: 673
1800 - 1871
HPI: 46.81
Rank: 674
1858 - 1934
HPI: 46.80
Rank: 675
1859 - 1933
HPI: 46.78
Rank: 676
1844 - 1905
HPI: 46.77
Rank: 677
Among people born in 1810, Edward Blyth ranks 73. Before him are Jules Malou, Robert Mallet, Johann Löwenthal, Eliza McCardle Johnson, Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau, and Baron Ignaz von Plener. After him are Ernest Courtot de Cissey, Nicolae Golescu, Little Crow, William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong, Carl Mayet, and Alphonso Taft. Among people deceased in 1873, Edward Blyth ranks 58. Before him are Francis Marrash, Fyodor Vasilyev, Friedrich Frey-Herosé, Salmon P. Chase, Odilon Barrot, and Alexei Fedchenko. After him are Albert Joseph Goblet d'Alviella, Matthew Fontaine Maury, Per Georg Scheutz, Robert McClure, Jules Verreaux, and Johann Jakob Kaup.
1810 - 1886
HPI: 47.86
Rank: 67
1810 - 1881
HPI: 47.82
Rank: 68
1810 - 1876
HPI: 47.81
Rank: 69
1810 - 1876
HPI: 47.76
Rank: 70
1810 - 1892
HPI: 47.05
Rank: 71
1810 - 1908
HPI: 46.98
Rank: 72
1810 - 1873
HPI: 46.86
Rank: 73
1810 - 1882
HPI: 46.85
Rank: 74
1810 - 1878
HPI: 45.87
Rank: 75
1810 - 1863
HPI: 45.80
Rank: 76
1810 - 1900
HPI: 45.45
Rank: 77
1810 - 1868
HPI: 44.47
Rank: 78
1810 - 1891
HPI: 44.39
Rank: 79
1837 - 1873
HPI: 47.78
Rank: 52
1850 - 1873
HPI: 47.72
Rank: 53
1801 - 1873
HPI: 47.62
Rank: 54
1808 - 1873
HPI: 47.47
Rank: 55
1791 - 1873
HPI: 47.44
Rank: 56
1844 - 1873
HPI: 46.97
Rank: 57
1810 - 1873
HPI: 46.86
Rank: 58
1790 - 1873
HPI: 46.62
Rank: 59
1806 - 1873
HPI: 46.08
Rank: 60
1785 - 1873
HPI: 45.96
Rank: 61
1807 - 1873
HPI: 45.86
Rank: 62
1807 - 1873
HPI: 45.74
Rank: 63
1803 - 1873
HPI: 45.63
Rank: 64
Among people born in United Kingdom, Edward Blyth ranks 3,401 out of 7,765. Before him are Richard Wilson (1936), R. M. Hare (1919), William Huskisson (1770), David Marshall Lang (1924), Gabrielle Anwar (1970), and Henry of Huntingdon (1080). After him are Asa Butterfield (1997), Clifford Curzon (1907), Suze Randall (1946), Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1743), Justin Welby (1956), and Richard Bentley (1662).
1936 - Present
HPI: 46.87
Rank: 3,395
1919 - 2002
HPI: 46.87
Rank: 3,396
1770 - 1830
HPI: 46.87
Rank: 3,397
1924 - 1991
HPI: 46.87
Rank: 3,398
1970 - Present
HPI: 46.87
Rank: 3,399
1080 - 1160
HPI: 46.86
Rank: 3,400
1810 - 1873
HPI: 46.86
Rank: 3,401
1997 - Present
HPI: 46.85
Rank: 3,402
1907 - 1982
HPI: 46.85
Rank: 3,403
1946 - Present
HPI: 46.85
Rank: 3,404
1743 - 1805
HPI: 46.84
Rank: 3,405
1956 - Present
HPI: 46.84
Rank: 3,406
1662 - 1742
HPI: 46.84
Rank: 3,407
Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Edward Blyth ranks 87. Before him are Everard Home (1756), William John Burchell (1781), Philip Barker-Webb (1793), Mary Elizabeth Barber (1818), Andrew Smith (1797), and Edward Newton (1832). After him are John Richardson (1787), William Hemsley (1843), William Sherard (1659), David Don (1799), Miles Joseph Berkeley (1803), and Thomas Campbell Eyton (1809).
1756 - 1832
HPI: 47.86
Rank: 81
1781 - 1863
HPI: 47.83
Rank: 82
1793 - 1854
HPI: 47.36
Rank: 83
1818 - 1899
HPI: 47.07
Rank: 84
1797 - 1872
HPI: 46.90
Rank: 85
1832 - 1897
HPI: 46.90
Rank: 86
1810 - 1873
HPI: 46.86
Rank: 87
1787 - 1865
HPI: 46.65
Rank: 88
1843 - 1924
HPI: 46.60
Rank: 89
1659 - 1728
HPI: 46.59
Rank: 90
1799 - 1841
HPI: 46.59
Rank: 91
1803 - 1889
HPI: 46.51
Rank: 92
1809 - 1870
HPI: 46.38
Rank: 93