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Jean-Baptiste Denys

1643 - 1704

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Jean-Baptiste Denys (c. 1635 – 3 October 1704) was a French physician notable for having performed the first fully documented human blood transfusion, a xenotransfusion. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean-Baptiste Denys has received more than 106,138 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Jean-Baptiste Denys is the 309th most popular physician (down from 289th in 2019), the 2,479th most popular biography from France (down from 2,287th in 2019) and the 35th most popular French Physician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.97

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.89

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Jean-Baptiste Denys ranks 309 out of 726. Before him are Hakaru Hashimoto, Titus Brandsma, William Osler, Thomas Sydenham, Adolf Kussmaul, and Eduard Wirths. After him are Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel, John Latham, Hinrich Lichtenstein, Johann Christian Reil, Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat, and Antoine Louis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1643, Jean-Baptiste Denys ranks 15. Before him are Mary of Jesus de León y Delgado, Jean Chardin, Fran Krsto Frankopan, Ilona Zrínyi, Henri Jules, Prince of Condé, and René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle. After him are Vasily Golitsyn, Godfried Schalcken, and Zinat-un-Nissa Begum. Among people deceased in 1704, Jean-Baptiste Denys ranks 9. Before him are Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, Guillaume de l'Hôpital, Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia, Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Princess Frederica Amalia of Denmark, and Georg Muffat. After him are Isabella Leonarda, Selim I Giray, Charles Plumier, Francesco Provenzale, John Charles, Count Palatine of Gelnhausen, and Agnes Block.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Baptiste Denys ranks 2,479 out of 6,770. Before him are Ariane Mnouchkine (1939), Guy Bonnet (1945), Marcellin Marbot (1782), André Thevet (1516), Jean-Étienne Championnet (1762), and Antoine Pinay (1891). After him are Matthias of Arras (1290), Jacques Tourneur (1904), Emmanuel-Armand de Richelieu, duc d'Aiguillon (1720), Louise Julie de Mailly-Nesle (1710), Renaud Camus (1946), and Decentius (300).

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Among PHYSICIANS In France

Among physicians born in France, Jean-Baptiste Denys ranks 35. Before him are François Magendie (1783), Édouard Séguin (1812), Edmond Locard (1877), Guillaume Dupuytren (1777), Pierre Paul Émile Roux (1853), and Michel-Gabriel Paccard (1757). After him are Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat (1788), Antoine Louis (1723), Louis de Jaucourt (1704), Ernest Duchesne (1874), Jean Pierre Flourens (1794), and Pierre Fauchard (1679).

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