PHYSICIAN

Guy de Chauliac

1300 - 1368

Photo of Guy de Chauliac

Icon of person Guy de Chauliac

Guy de Chauliac (French: [də ʃoljak]), also called Guido or Guigo de Cauliaco (c. 1300 – 25 July 1368), was a French physician and surgeon who wrote a lengthy and influential treatise on surgery in Latin, titled Chirurgia Magna. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Guy de Chauliac has received more than 164,257 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Guy de Chauliac is the 189th most popular physician (up from 207th in 2019), the 1,480th most popular biography from France (up from 1,549th in 2019) and the 21st most popular French Physician.

Guy de Chauliac is most famous for being the first physician to describe the bubonic plague, which he called the "black death."

Memorability Metrics

  • 160k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.77

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.03

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.92

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Guy de Chauliac ranks 189 out of 726. Before him are August von Wassermann, Hans Sloane, Werner Haase, Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Leonid Rogozov, and Maurice Bucaille. After him are Leonhart Fuchs, Sebastian Kneipp, Heo Jun, Louis Ignarro, Peter Agre, and Paul Gachet.

Most Popular Physicians in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1300, Guy de Chauliac ranks 12. Before him are Johannes Tauler, Mesud II, Kayqubad III, Masamune, Jani Beg, and Khutughtu Khan Kusala. After him are Kaykaus II, Al-Mustansir, Jaunutis, Vytenis, William of Villehardouin, and Toqta. Among people deceased in 1368, Guy de Chauliac ranks 3. Before him are Ibn Battuta, and Orcagna. After him are Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence, Blanche of Lancaster, Emperor Go-Murakami, Ilyas Khoja, and Marco Cornaro.

Others Born in 1300

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1368

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In France

Among people born in France, Guy de Chauliac ranks 1,480 out of 6,770. Before him are Hélène Carrère d'Encausse (1929), Warda Al-Jazairia (1939), Alphonse, Count of Poitiers (1220), André Lhote (1885), Austen Henry Layard (1817), and Jacques Charrier (1936). After him are Dominique Sanda (1948), Édouard Stephan (1837), Pierre Duhem (1861), Paul Cornu (1881), Gaston, Count of Eu (1842), and Jacques Becker (1906).

Others born in France

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among PHYSICIANS In France

Among physicians born in France, Guy de Chauliac ranks 21. Before him are André Frédéric Cournand (1895), Marie François Xavier Bichat (1771), Jean Marc Gaspard Itard (1774), Georges Gilles de la Tourette (1857), Dominique Jean Larrey (1766), and Maurice Bucaille (1920). After him are Paul Gachet (1828), Albert Calmette (1863), Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis (1757), Bernard Kouchner (1939), Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol (1772), and Marcel Petiot (1897).

French born Physicians

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous