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Francis Buchanan-Hamilton

1762 - 1829

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Francis Buchanan (15 February 1762 – 15 June 1829), later known as Francis Hamilton but often referred to as Francis Buchanan-Hamilton, was a Scottish surgeon, surveyor and botanist who made significant contributions as a geographer and zoologist while living in India. He did not assume the name of Hamilton until three years after his retirement from India. The standard botanical author abbreviation Buch.-Ham. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Francis Buchanan-Hamilton has received more than 155,765 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Francis Buchanan-Hamilton is the 583rd most popular physician (down from 425th in 2019), the 3,615th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,487th in 2019) and the 52nd most popular British Physician.

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  • 47.67

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.92

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.10

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Francis Buchanan-Hamilton ranks 583 out of 726. Before him are Emil Holub, William Beaumont, Madeleine Pelletier, Willem Piso, William Stukeley, and Julius Friedrich Cohnheim. After him are Gregorio Marañón, Theodor Ludwig Wilhelm von Bischoff, Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet, Adelaida Avagyan, Cecilia Grierson, and Ellen S. Baker.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1762, Francis Buchanan-Hamilton ranks 31. Before him are Jeremias Benjamin Richter, Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland, Giuseppe Valadier, Princess Caroline of Nassau-Usingen, Marcos Portugal, and Marie Bouliard. After him are Lachlan Macquarie, Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst, and Joanna Baillie. Among people deceased in 1829, Francis Buchanan-Hamilton ranks 42. Before him are Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros, James Smithson, Cornelio Saavedra, Wojciech Bogusławski, John Mawe, and Timothy Pickering. After him are Albrecht Berblinger, Mahmud Shah Durrani, Pedro Blanco Soto, Richard Anthony Salisbury, Henry Dearborn, and Sikandar Jah.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Francis Buchanan-Hamilton ranks 3,615 out of 8,785. Before him are Robert Douglas (1909), Louis Fraser (1810), G. M. Trevelyan (1876), Mary Moser (1744), Frederic G. Kenyon (1863), and Una O'Connor (1880). After him are Emma Thomas (1971), Bill Paterson (1945), Dave Charlton (1936), Kirsty MacColl (1959), Hugh Dancy (1975), and Virginia Wade (1945).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among physicians born in United Kingdom, Francis Buchanan-Hamilton ranks 52. Before him are Frederick Twort (1877), Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899), Thomas Francis Wade (1818), Richard Leach Maddox (1816), John Arbuthnot (1667), and William Stukeley (1687). After him are Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet (1783), Astley Cooper (1768), Emily Blackwell (1826), Sir John Pringle, 1st Baronet (1707), Archie Cochrane (1909), and George E. P. Box (1919).

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