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Hélène Sparrow

1891 - 1970

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Hélène Sparrow (5 June 1891 – 13 November 1970), was a Polish medical doctor and bacteriologist. She is best known for her work on the control of many epidemics including: typhoid fever, cholera, dysentery, and smallpox. Throughout the 1920s, Sparrow worked with the Polish Armed Forces at the State Institute of Hygiene in Warsaw. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hélène Sparrow has received more than 22,457 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Hélène Sparrow is the 575th most popular physician (down from 509th in 2019), the 750th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 606th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Ukrainian Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Hélène Sparrow ranks 575 out of 726. Before her are Paul Hermann, Joseph Schröter, Metrodora, Florence R. Sabin, Richard Leach Maddox, and John Arbuthnot. After her are Napoleon Cybulski, Emil Holub, William Beaumont, Madeleine Pelletier, Willem Piso, and William Stukeley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Hélène Sparrow ranks 213. Before her are Archie Mayo, Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch, Hitoshi Sasaki, Gustaf Dyrssen, Fanny Brice, and Willy Birgel. After her are Isak Abrahamsen, Yvette Andréyor, William Christian Bullitt Jr., Victor Varconi, Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska, and Sidney Howard. Among people deceased in 1970, Hélène Sparrow ranks 192. Before her are Parashqevi Qiriazi, Hans Walzhofer, Irene Guest, Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch, Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia, and Janko Alexy. After her are Ludovico Bidoglio, Vano Muradeli, István Fekete, Shoichi Sakata, David Mountbatten, 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven, and Christopher Kelk Ingold.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Hélène Sparrow ranks 750 out of 1,365. Before her are Diana Karenne (1897), Barbara Karinska (1886), Milena Rudnytska (1892), Yekaterina Zelenko (1916), Vladimir Shainsky (1925), and Anatol Rapoport (1911). After her are Maurice Goldhaber (1911), Oleksandr Shovkovskiy (1975), Eduard Bagritsky (1895), Paul A. Baran (1909), Ivan Kavaleridze (1887), and Maria Guleghina (1959).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Ukraine

Among physicians born in Ukraine, Hélène Sparrow ranks 9. Before her are Wilhelm Stekel (1868), Aleksandr Bogomolets (1881), Grunya Sukhareva (1891), Maryna Poroshenko (1962), Nikolay Gamaleya (1859), and Łucja Frey (1889). After her are Ben Klassen (1918).

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