BIOLOGIST

George Robert Gray

1808 - 1872

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George Robert Gray (8 July 1808 – 6 May 1872) was an English zoologist and author, and head of the ornithological section of the British Museum, now the Natural History Museum, in London for forty-one years. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Robert Gray has received more than 95,805 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). George Robert Gray is the 181st most popular biologist (up from 311th in 2019), the 1,033rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,880th in 2019) and the 26th most popular British Biologist.

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  • 59.39

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.60

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, George Robert Gray ranks 181 out of 1,097. Before him are Wilhelm Johannsen, George Wald, Giuseppe Acerbi, Jakob von Uexküll, Theodor Escherich, and Anna Atkins. After him are Georg Wilhelm Steller, Peter Medawar, Stephen Jay Gould, Armand David, Jeffrey C. Hall, and Ian Wilmut.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1808, George Robert Gray ranks 21. Before him are Maria Malibran, Mohammad Shah Qajar, Carl Spitzweg, Solomon Northup, Wilhelm Weitling, and Princess Louise of Prussia. After him are Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Princess Vilhelmine Marie of Denmark, Princess Marie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Nimatullah Kassab, Urbano Rattazzi, and Eugénie de Beauharnais. Among people deceased in 1872, George Robert Gray ranks 19. Before him are Ljudevit Gaj, Aleksis Kivi, Immanuel Nobel, Zeng Guofan, Mary Somerville, and Kawakami Gensai. After him are Prince Albert of Prussia, Princess Feodora of Leiningen, John Frederick Kensett, Vladimir Dal, William H. Seward, and Charles-Eugène Delaunay.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, George Robert Gray ranks 1,033 out of 8,785. Before him are John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich (1718), Ricky Gervais (1961), Woodes Rogers (1679), Jeremy Brett (1933), Michael Palin (1943), and Anna Atkins (1799). After him are Henry Tingle Wilde (1872), John Balliol (1249), Sebastian Shaw (1905), Kenny Baker (1934), James Murray (1837), and Princess Marie of Orléans (1865).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, George Robert Gray ranks 26. Before him are John Ray (1627), William Carey (1761), William Bateson (1861), Martin Evans (1941), John Boyd Orr (1880), and Anna Atkins (1799). After him are Ian Wilmut (1944), Henry Walter Bates (1825), George Shaw (1751), Charles Bell (1774), Oldfield Thomas (1858), and J. B. S. Haldane (1892).

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