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Hans Sloane

1660 - 1753

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Sir Hans Sloane, 1st Baronet, (16 April 1660 – 11 January 1753), was an Anglo-Irish physician, naturalist, and collector. He had a collection of 71,000 items which he bequeathed to the British nation, thus providing the foundation of the British Museum, the British Library, and the Natural History Museum, London. Elected to the Royal Society at the age of 24, Sloane travelled to the Caribbean in 1687 and documented his travels and findings with extensive publications years later. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hans Sloane has received more than 683,036 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Hans Sloane is the 184th most popular physician (up from 195th in 2019), the 953rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,007th in 2019) and the 13th most popular British Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Hans Sloane ranks 184 out of 726. Before him are Alexander Bogdanov, Gerhard Armauer Hansen, Magnus Hirschfeld, Bernardo Houssay, Alan Hodgkin, and August von Wassermann. After him are Werner Haase, Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Leonid Rogozov, Maurice Bucaille, Guy de Chauliac, and Leonhart Fuchs.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1660, Hans Sloane ranks 7. Before him are Daniel Defoe, George I of Great Britain, Alessandro Scarlatti, Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, Maria Anna Victoria of Bavaria, and André Campra. After him are Veronica Giuliani, Johann Kuhnau, Andreas Schlüter, Johann Joseph Fux, Johann Patkul, and Arnold Houbraken. Among people deceased in 1753, Hans Sloane ranks 3. Before him are George Berkeley, and Balthasar Neumann. After him are Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff, Gottfried Silbermann, Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Louise Bénédicte de Bourbon, Charles August, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg, Franciszka Urszula Radziwiłłowa, Nicolas Fatio de Duillier, Johann Nicolaus Bach, and Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Hans Sloane ranks 953 out of 8,785. Before him are Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia (1945), Geoffrey Wilkinson (1921), Stewart Granger (1913), Charlotte Gainsbourg (1971), Tony Richardson (1928), and Lobsang Rampa (1910). After him are William Hyde Wollaston (1766), Lady Sarah Chatto (1964), Isabella of England (1214), Thomas Graham (1805), Eric Idle (1943), and Albert Pierrepoint (1905).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among physicians born in United Kingdom, Hans Sloane ranks 13. Before him are John Snow (1813), Edgar Adrian (1889), James Black (1924), John Langdon Down (1828), Frederick Griffith (1879), and Alan Hodgkin (1914). After him are Thomas Willis (1621), Mungo Park (1771), James Lind (1716), John Hunter (1728), Edward Bach (1886), and Cicely Saunders (1918).

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