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Harry Benjamin

1885 - 1986

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Harry Benjamin (January 12, 1885 – August 24, 1986) was a German-American endocrinologist and sexologist, widely known for his clinical work with transgender people. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Harry Benjamin has received more than 283,189 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Harry Benjamin is the 631st most popular physician (down from 546th in 2019), the 5,073rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,233rd in 2019) and the 100th most popular German Physician.

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  • 280k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.92

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.90

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.89

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Harry Benjamin ranks 631 out of 726. Before him are Fernando Quiroga Palacios, William C. Gorgas, María Teresa Ferrari, William H. Welch, Anders Tegnell, and Andrea Andreen. After him are Fidel Pagés, Archie Cochrane, Jean Alexandre Barré, George E. P. Box, Robert Atkins, and Thomas Lewis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, Harry Benjamin ranks 229. Before him are John Beazley, Leonard Peterson, Dale Fuller, Caius Welcker, John Tovey, 1st Baron Tovey, and Carl Goßler. After him are Károly Dietz, Malcolm Campbell, Urani Rumbo, Heinrich Schomburgk, Charles Henry Bartlett, and Luciano Savorini. Among people deceased in 1986, Harry Benjamin ranks 247. Before him are Arvid Thörn, Pepper Adams, Beryl Markham, Brian Aherne, Snorri Hjartarson, and Yukiko Okada. After him are Sulo Bärlund, Forrest Tucker, Josef Streb, Rafael Gil, Yakima Canutt, and Yaşar Erkan.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Harry Benjamin ranks 5,073 out of 7,253. Before him are Carl Goßler (1885), Volker Bouffier (1951), Georg Zacharias (1884), Johann Ludwig Krapf (1810), Ilse Bing (1899), and August Spies (1855). After him are Walther von Dyck (1856), Dieter Eilts (1964), Christian Gottfried Körner (1756), Hans Eichel (1941), Konrad Weise (1951), and Marcel Schmelzer (1988).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Harry Benjamin ranks 100. Before him are Ludwig Aschoff (1866), Gustav Fischer (1848), Paul Hermann (1646), Julius Friedrich Cohnheim (1839), Theodor Ludwig Wilhelm von Bischoff (1807), and Edzard Ernst (1948). After him are Paul Möhring (1710), Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson (1809), and Hinrich Romeike (1963).

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