1808 - 1865
Hugh Falconer MD FRS (29 February 1808 – 31 January 1865) was a Scottish geologist, botanist, palaeontologist, and paleoanthropologist. He studied the flora, fauna, and geology of India, Assam,Burma, and most of the Mediterranean islands and was the first to suggest the modern evolutionary theory of punctuated equilibrium. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hugh Falconer has received more than 43,847 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 16 in 2019). Hugh Falconer is the 80th most popular anthropologist (down from 58th in 2019), the 4,677th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,444th in 2019) and the 11th most popular British Anthropologist.
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Among anthropologists, Hugh Falconer ranks 80 out of 69. Before him are Dmitry Anuchin, Françoise Héritier, Vladimir Bogoraz, Carleton S. Coon, Adolf Bernhard Meyer, and Grete Mostny. After him are Napoleon Chagnon, Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Edwin H. Colbert, Eugenie Scott, and Alice Roberts.
1843 - 1923
HPI: 45.35
Rank: 74
1933 - 2017
HPI: 45.03
Rank: 75
1865 - 1936
HPI: 44.99
Rank: 76
1904 - 1981
HPI: 44.38
Rank: 77
1840 - 1911
HPI: 43.59
Rank: 78
1914 - 1991
HPI: 42.13
Rank: 79
1808 - 1865
HPI: 42.03
Rank: 80
1938 - 2019
HPI: 41.72
Rank: 81
1962 - Present
HPI: 38.89
Rank: 82
1905 - 2001
HPI: 38.30
Rank: 83
1945 - Present
HPI: 36.39
Rank: 84
1973 - Present
HPI: 22.99
Rank: 85
Among people born in 1808, Hugh Falconer ranks 61. Before him are Antonio Arenas, José Rufino Echenique, Hamilton Fish, Teréz Karacs, Wendela Hebbe, and Juan Crisóstomo Torrico. After him are John Hutton Balfour and Hugh McCulloch. Among people deceased in 1865, Hugh Falconer ranks 70. Before him are Léon Jean Marie Dufour, William Henry Smyth, Edward Everett, Andrei Stackenschneider, José María Pérez de Urdininea, and A. P. Hill. After him are William J. Duane and Thomas Corwin.
1808 - 1891
HPI: 44.49
Rank: 55
1808 - 1887
HPI: 44.43
Rank: 56
1808 - 1893
HPI: 44.42
Rank: 57
1808 - 1892
HPI: 42.51
Rank: 58
1808 - 1899
HPI: 42.29
Rank: 59
1808 - 1875
HPI: 42.26
Rank: 60
1808 - 1865
HPI: 42.03
Rank: 61
1808 - 1884
HPI: 37.49
Rank: 62
1808 - 1895
HPI: 36.99
Rank: 63
1780 - 1865
HPI: 46.46
Rank: 64
1788 - 1865
HPI: 45.54
Rank: 65
1794 - 1865
HPI: 45.47
Rank: 66
1802 - 1865
HPI: 45.33
Rank: 67
1784 - 1865
HPI: 44.85
Rank: 68
1825 - 1865
HPI: 44.54
Rank: 69
1808 - 1865
HPI: 42.03
Rank: 70
1780 - 1865
HPI: 38.00
Rank: 71
1794 - 1865
HPI: 35.23
Rank: 72
Among people born in United Kingdom, Hugh Falconer ranks 4,677 out of 7,765. Before him are Bryan Sykes (1947), Henry Tate (1819), Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer (1850), Charles Tate Regan (1878), Pat Fry (1964), and Amina J. Mohammed (1961). After him are Kevin Doyle (1960), Beryl Bainbridge (1932), Clive Bunker (1946), Roma Ryan (1950), Mark Jones (1933), and David Mackenzie (1966).
1947 - 2020
HPI: 42.05
Rank: 4,671
1819 - 1899
HPI: 42.04
Rank: 4,672
1850 - 1935
HPI: 42.04
Rank: 4,673
1878 - 1943
HPI: 42.04
Rank: 4,674
1964 - Present
HPI: 42.04
Rank: 4,675
1961 - Present
HPI: 42.03
Rank: 4,676
1808 - 1865
HPI: 42.03
Rank: 4,677
1960 - Present
HPI: 42.03
Rank: 4,678
1932 - 2010
HPI: 42.03
Rank: 4,679
1946 - Present
HPI: 42.02
Rank: 4,680
1950 - Present
HPI: 42.02
Rank: 4,681
1933 - 1958
HPI: 42.00
Rank: 4,682
1966 - Present
HPI: 42.00
Rank: 4,683
Among anthropologists born in United Kingdom, Hugh Falconer ranks 11. Before him are Alfred Radcliffe-Brown (1881), E. E. Evans-Pritchard (1902), Victor Turner (1920), Mary Leakey (1913), Edmund Leach (1910), and Ashley Montagu (1905). After him are Alice Roberts (1973).
1881 - 1955
HPI: 61.52
Rank: 5
1902 - 1973
HPI: 59.52
Rank: 6
1920 - 1983
HPI: 58.05
Rank: 7
1913 - 1996
HPI: 57.89
Rank: 8
1910 - 1989
HPI: 49.97
Rank: 9
1905 - 1999
HPI: 46.97
Rank: 10
1808 - 1865
HPI: 42.03
Rank: 11
1973 - Present
HPI: 22.99
Rank: 12