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Isabella Bird

1831 - 1904

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Isabella Lucy Bishop (née Bird; 15 October 1831 – 7 October 1904) was an English explorer, writer, photographer and naturalist. Alongside fellow Englishwoman Fanny Jane Butler, she founded the John Bishop Memorial Hospital in Srinagar in modern-day Kashmir. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Isabella Bird has received more than 532,843 page views. Her biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Isabella Bird is the 128th most popular explorer (down from 122nd in 2019), the 1,064th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,088th in 2019) and the 18th most popular British Explorer.

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  • 59.07

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.27

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.06

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Isabella Bird ranks 128 out of 498. Before her are Pedro de Mendoza, Francisco Hernández de Córdoba, Jean Chardin, Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel, Salomon August Andrée, and Afanasy Nikitin. After her are Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, Adam Olearius, Adrien de Gerlache, Francisco Serrão, Juan de Grijalva, and Vladimir Arsenyev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1831, Isabella Bird ranks 28. Before her are Princess Maria Amélia of Brazil, Duke Ludwig Wilhelm in Bavaria, Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria, Maximilian Anton, Hereditary Prince of Thurn and Taxis, Nadezhda von Meck, and Ilya Ulyanov. After her are Constantin Meunier, Maurice de Hirsch, Ludvig Nobel, Nikolai Ge, Paul Durand-Ruel, and Anna Leonowens. Among people deceased in 1904, Isabella Bird ranks 31. Before her are Sami Frashëri, Alfred von Waldersee, Eduard Hanslick, María de las Mercedes, Princess of Asturias, Nikolay Bobrikov, and Vladimir Markovnikov. After her are Kartini, Mór Jókai, Princess Alexandrine of Baden, Antonio Labriola, Wilhelm Marr, and Herbert von Bismarck.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Isabella Bird ranks 1,064 out of 8,785. Before her are George Boleyn, 2nd Viscount Rochford (1504), Frank Lloyd (1886), Stephen Boyd (1931), Thomas Willis (1621), Frank Oz (1944), and William Smith (1769). After her are David Hamilton (1933), Cozy Powell (1947), Nicko McBrain (1952), Dave Gahan (1962), Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872), and W. O. Bentley (1888).

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Among EXPLORERS In United Kingdom

Among explorers born in United Kingdom, Isabella Bird ranks 18. Before her are William Dampier (1651), James Clark Ross (1800), Robert FitzRoy (1805), Mary Kingsley (1862), Thomas Cavendish (1560), and George Vancouver (1757). After her are Mark Sykes (1879), Martin Frobisher (1535), James Bruce (1730), John Rolfe (1585), William Parry (1790), and Alexander Mackenzie (1764).

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