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James Lind

1716 - 1794

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James Lind (4 October 1716 – 13 July 1794) was a Scottish physician. He was a pioneer of naval hygiene in the Royal Navy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Lind has received more than 431,929 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). James Lind is the 234th most popular physician (down from 228th in 2019), the 1,194th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,166th in 2019) and the 16th most popular British Physician.

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  • 430k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.14

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.77

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, James Lind ranks 234 out of 726. Before him are Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol, Leander of Seville, Tasuku Honjo, Johann Weyer, Aletta Jacobs, and Alessandro Achillini. After him are John Hunter, Vladimir Dal, Hieronymus Fabricius, Norman Bethune, Hans Berger, and Ernst-Robert Grawitz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1716, James Lind ranks 4. Before him are Charles III of Spain, Yosa Buson, and Étienne Maurice Falconet. After him are Princess Philippine Charlotte of Prussia, Joseph-Marie Vien, Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, Antonio de Ulloa, Yuan Mei, Louise Diane d'Orléans, Thomas Gray, and Luis Egidio Meléndez. Among people deceased in 1794, James Lind ranks 28. Before him are Henri de la Rochejaquelein, Jean-Baptiste Carrier, Rudolf Erich Raspe, Duchess Sophia Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Gottfried August Bürger, and Sheikh Mansur. After him are Lucile Desmoulins, Caspar Friedrich Wolff, Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, Florimond Claude, Comte de Mercy-Argenteau, Lotf Ali Khan, and Countess Palatine Elisabeth Auguste of Sulzbach.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, James Lind ranks 1,194 out of 8,785. Before him are Michael Moorcock (1939), Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York (1341), Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1623), Edith Cavell (1865), John Kay (1704), and Rob Roy MacGregor (1671). After him are George Young (1946), George Fox (1624), Annie Chapman (1841), Dave Murray (1956), Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900), and Ally McCoist (1962).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among physicians born in United Kingdom, James Lind ranks 16. Before him are John Langdon Down (1828), Frederick Griffith (1879), Alan Hodgkin (1914), Hans Sloane (1660), Thomas Willis (1621), and Mungo Park (1771). After him are John Hunter (1728), Edward Bach (1886), Cicely Saunders (1918), Thomas Hodgkin (1798), Thomas Addison (1793), and Henry Gray (1827).

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