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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 512,417 page views. Her biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Isabella Bird is the 123rd most popular explorer (down from 119th in 2019), the 1,092nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,036th in 2019) and the 18th most popular British Explorer.

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  • 510k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.36

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.81

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.08

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Isabella Bird ranks 123 out of 405. Before her are George Vancouver, Andrés de Urdaneta, Afanasy Nikitin, Alvise Cadamosto, Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, and João da Nova. After her are Salomon August Andrée, Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel, Himilco, João Vaz Corte-Real, Isabelle Eberhardt, and Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1831, Isabella Bird ranks 26. Before her are Albert Anker, Nikolai Leskov, Princess Maria Amélia of Brazil, Maximilian Anton, Hereditary Prince of Thurn and Taxis, Victorien Sardou, and Ilya Ulyanov. After her are Constantin Meunier, Anna Leonowens, Othniel Charles Marsh, Paul Durand-Ruel, Nikolai Ge, and Peter Nicolai Arbo. Among people deceased in 1904, Isabella Bird ranks 31. Before her are Eduard Hanslick, Sami Frashëri, Mathilde Bonaparte, Georges Gilles de la Tourette, Nikolay Bobrikov, and María de las Mercedes, Princess of Asturias. After her are Isabelle Eberhardt, Vladimir Markovnikov, Mór Jókai, Frederick I, Duke of Anhalt, Kartini, and Antonio Labriola.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Isabella Bird ranks 1,092 out of 7,765. Before her are Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York (1341), Harriet Taylor Mill (1807), W. T. Stead (1849), David Bradley (1942), Thomas Cole (1801), and John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford (1389). After her are Matilda of Scotland (1080), John Dryden (1631), Henry (1100), Woodes Rogers (1679), Eunice Gayson (1928), and Sacha Baron Cohen (1971).

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Among EXPLORERS In United Kingdom

Among explorers born in United Kingdom, Isabella Bird ranks 18. Before her are John Davis (1550), William Dampier (1651), Robert FitzRoy (1805), Mary Kingsley (1862), Thomas Cavendish (1560), and George Vancouver (1757). After her are Martin Frobisher (1535), Alexander Mackenzie (1764), Samuel Wallis (1728), Matthew Flinders (1774), James Bruce (1730), and John Rolfe (1585).

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