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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

1836 - 1917

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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (9 June 1836 – 17 December 1917) was an English physician and suffragist. She is known for being the first woman to qualify in Britain as a physician and surgeon and as a co-founder and dean of the London School of Medicine for Women, which was the first medical school in Britain to train women as doctors. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson has received more than 730,162 page views. Her biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Elizabeth Garrett Anderson is the 403rd most popular physician (down from 329th in 2019), the 2,204th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,842nd in 2019) and the 32nd most popular British Physician.

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  • 730k

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  • 52.91

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.56

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson ranks 403 out of 726. Before her are Theodor Meynert, Philip Showalter Hench, Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Charles Estienne, Andrew Yao, and Ron Wyatt. After her are Rufus of Ephesus, Paul Julius Möbius, Marcus Elieser Bloch, William Stewart Halsted, Alfonso López Trujillo, and Paul Neumann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1836, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson ranks 49. Before her are Inoue Kaoru, Cato Maximilian Guldberg, Princess Anna of Saxony, Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville, Nakayama Yoshiko, and Máximo Gómez. After her are Camillo Boito, Alfred Grandidier, Giuseppe Abbati, Edward Poynter, Princess Therese of Saxe-Altenburg, and Cirilo Antonio Rivarola. Among people deceased in 1917, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson ranks 65. Before her are Teresa Carreño, Enric Prat de la Riba, Andrew Taylor Still, Marian Smoluchowski, Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, and Ber Borochov. After her are Otto Finsch, Titu Maiorescu, Werner Voss, Ecaterina Teodoroiu, Friedrich Robert Helmert, and Federico Zandomeneghi.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson ranks 2,204 out of 8,785. Before her are Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1874), Norman McLaren (1914), Mary Bell (1957), John Kemp Starley (1854), Timothy Garton Ash (1955), and Nicolas Roeg (1928). After her are Joseph Lancaster (1778), Humphrey Gilbert (1539), Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia (1924), Michael Jackson (1942), Thor Vilhjálmsson (1925), and William Hartnell (1908).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among physicians born in United Kingdom, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson ranks 32. Before her are William Cullen (1710), Clarke Abel (1780), James Braid (1795), Robert Darwin (1766), Sir William Bowman, 1st Baronet (1816), and William Bayliss (1860). After her are William Gull (1816), William Hunter (1718), Harry Seeley (1839), Robert Liston (1794), John Crawfurd (1783), and James Young Simpson (1811).

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