1759 - 1828
Sir James Edward Smith (2 December 1759 – 17 March 1828) was an English botanist and founder of the Linnean Society. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Edward Smith has received more than 81,887 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). James Edward Smith is the 255th most popular biologist (down from 251st in 2019), the 1,583rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,535th in 2019) and the 37th most popular British Biologist.
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Among biologists, James Edward Smith ranks 255 out of 841. Before him are Rupert Sheldrake, David Julius, August Grisebach, David Bruce, Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest, and Barthélemy Charles Joseph Dumortier. After him are Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle, Hermann Schlegel, Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart, Johann Hermann, Eduard Rüppell, and Wilder Penfield.
1942 - Present
HPI: 55.16
Rank: 249
1955 - Present
HPI: 55.16
Rank: 250
1814 - 1879
HPI: 55.14
Rank: 251
1855 - 1931
HPI: 55.13
Rank: 252
1784 - 1838
HPI: 55.11
Rank: 253
1797 - 1878
HPI: 55.10
Rank: 254
1759 - 1828
HPI: 55.10
Rank: 255
1806 - 1893
HPI: 55.07
Rank: 256
1804 - 1884
HPI: 55.04
Rank: 257
1742 - 1795
HPI: 54.98
Rank: 258
1738 - 1800
HPI: 54.96
Rank: 259
1794 - 1884
HPI: 54.93
Rank: 260
1891 - 1976
HPI: 54.74
Rank: 261
Among people born in 1759, James Edward Smith ranks 19. Before him are Maria Theresia von Paradis, Friedrich August Wolf, Pierre-Joseph Redouté, Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg, Jacques Cathelineau, and Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach. After him are François Devienne, Aloys I, Prince of Liechtenstein, Johann Christian Reil, Franz Krommer, William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, and Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths. Among people deceased in 1828, James Edward Smith ranks 19. Before him are Charlotte, Princess Royal, William Hyde Wollaston, Radama I, Sineperver Sultan, Lady Caroline Lamb, and Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool. After him are Richard Parkes Bonington, François Isaac de Rivaz, Amalie of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, Leandro Fernández de Moratín, Jacques Lauriston, and Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet.
1759 - 1824
HPI: 60.12
Rank: 13
1759 - 1824
HPI: 59.01
Rank: 14
1759 - 1840
HPI: 58.77
Rank: 15
1759 - 1830
HPI: 56.96
Rank: 16
1759 - 1793
HPI: 56.42
Rank: 17
1759 - 1845
HPI: 56.04
Rank: 18
1759 - 1828
HPI: 55.10
Rank: 19
1759 - 1803
HPI: 54.86
Rank: 20
1759 - 1805
HPI: 54.59
Rank: 21
1759 - 1813
HPI: 52.84
Rank: 22
1759 - 1831
HPI: 52.68
Rank: 23
1759 - 1834
HPI: 52.45
Rank: 24
1759 - 1839
HPI: 52.38
Rank: 25
1766 - 1828
HPI: 59.76
Rank: 13
1766 - 1828
HPI: 59.29
Rank: 14
1793 - 1828
HPI: 58.47
Rank: 15
1761 - 1828
HPI: 57.03
Rank: 16
1785 - 1828
HPI: 56.13
Rank: 17
1770 - 1828
HPI: 55.66
Rank: 18
1759 - 1828
HPI: 55.10
Rank: 19
1801 - 1828
HPI: 54.85
Rank: 20
1752 - 1828
HPI: 53.36
Rank: 21
1752 - 1828
HPI: 52.50
Rank: 22
1760 - 1828
HPI: 51.95
Rank: 23
1768 - 1828
HPI: 51.81
Rank: 24
1772 - 1828
HPI: 51.12
Rank: 25
Among people born in United Kingdom, James Edward Smith ranks 1,583 out of 7,765. Before him are Rafael Merry del Val (1865), Roger Hunt (1938), Eric Knight (1897), George Smith (1840), Kate Moss (1974), and Sam Worthington (1976). After him are Steve Hackett (1950), Walter Bagehot (1826), Howard Staunton (1810), Gerald Gardner (1884), Ian Kershaw (1943), and Michael Anderson (1920).
1865 - 1930
HPI: 55.15
Rank: 1,577
1938 - 2021
HPI: 55.14
Rank: 1,578
1897 - 1943
HPI: 55.13
Rank: 1,579
1840 - 1876
HPI: 55.12
Rank: 1,580
1974 - Present
HPI: 55.10
Rank: 1,581
1976 - Present
HPI: 55.10
Rank: 1,582
1759 - 1828
HPI: 55.10
Rank: 1,583
1950 - Present
HPI: 55.09
Rank: 1,584
1826 - 1877
HPI: 55.09
Rank: 1,585
1810 - 1874
HPI: 55.09
Rank: 1,586
1884 - 1964
HPI: 55.08
Rank: 1,587
1943 - Present
HPI: 55.08
Rank: 1,588
1920 - 2018
HPI: 55.07
Rank: 1,589
Among biologists born in United Kingdom, James Edward Smith ranks 37. Before him are John Boyd Orr (1880), Thomas Browne (1605), John Lindley (1799), Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817), George Shaw (1751), and Rupert Sheldrake (1942). After him are June Almeida (1930), Arthur Tansley (1871), Thomas Cavalier-Smith (1942), Marie Stopes (1880), John Hughlings Jackson (1835), and John Gould (1804).
1880 - 1971
HPI: 56.92
Rank: 31
1605 - 1682
HPI: 56.32
Rank: 32
1799 - 1865
HPI: 55.72
Rank: 33
1817 - 1911
HPI: 55.34
Rank: 34
1751 - 1813
HPI: 55.24
Rank: 35
1942 - Present
HPI: 55.16
Rank: 36
1759 - 1828
HPI: 55.10
Rank: 37
1930 - 2007
HPI: 54.55
Rank: 38
1871 - 1955
HPI: 54.43
Rank: 39
1942 - 2021
HPI: 54.43
Rank: 40
1880 - 1958
HPI: 54.35
Rank: 41
1835 - 1911
HPI: 54.20
Rank: 42
1804 - 1881
HPI: 54.12
Rank: 43