PSYCHOLOGIST

Havelock Ellis

1859 - 1939

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Henry Havelock Ellis (2 February 1859 – 8 July 1939) was an English physician, eugenicist, writer, progressive intellectual and social reformer who studied human sexuality. He co-wrote the first medical textbook in English on homosexuality in 1897, and also published works on a variety of sexual practices and inclinations, as well as on transgender psychology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Havelock Ellis has received more than 861,809 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Havelock Ellis is the 135th most popular psychologist (down from 134th in 2019), the 1,606th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,679th in 2019) and the 9th most popular British Psychologist.

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  • 4.30

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  • 3.68

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Havelock Ellis ranks 135 out of 235. Before him are Johannes Heinrich Schultz, Amos Tversky, George Kelly, Steven Pinker, Helene Deutsch, and Kurt Goldstein. After him are J. P. Guilford, Henri Wallon, Brian Weiss, Léopold Szondi, Elizabeth Loftus, and Françoise Dolto.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1859, Havelock Ellis ranks 53. Before him are Gustave Kahn, Alfred Hettner, Nahum Sokolow, Walther von Lüttwitz, Sen Katayama, and Kenneth Grahame. After him are Prince Ludwig Ferdinand of Bavaria, Radko Dimitriev, Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield, Prince Oscar Bernadotte, Ernesto Cesàro, and Peder Mørk Mønsted. Among people deceased in 1939, Havelock Ellis ranks 58. Before him are Edvard Westermarck, Xu Shichang, Kyōka Izumi, Oscar Milosz, Yevgeny Miller, and Konstantin Korovin. After him are S. S. Van Dine, Isaak Brodsky, Ivan Mosjoukine, Eugène-Henri Gravelotte, Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg, and Benjamin Tucker.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Havelock Ellis ranks 1,606 out of 8,785. Before him are James Boswell (1740), Thomas Arne (1710), Aphra Behn (1640), Kenneth Grahame (1859), William Caxton (1422), and Sidney Paget (1860). After him are William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (1738), Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle (1693), John Canton (1718), John Nelson Darby (1800), Alf Ramsey (1920), and Matthew Flinders (1774).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among psychologists born in United Kingdom, Havelock Ellis ranks 9. Before him are Raymond Cattell (1905), Edward B. Titchener (1867), Charles Spearman (1863), R. D. Laing (1927), William McDougall (1871), and Frederic Bartlett (1886). After him are Alexander Bain (1818), Ernest Jones (1879), Brenda Milner (1918), Ronald Fairbairn (1889), Alan Baddeley (1934), and Anne Treisman (1935).

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