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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 101,525 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Jean-Baptiste Denys is the 289th most popular physician (down from 188th in 2019), the 2,294th most popular biography from France (down from 1,450th in 2019) and the 35th most popular French Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Jean-Baptiste Denys ranks 289 out of 502. Before him are Hilary Koprowski, Franciscus Donders, Rembert Dodoens, Claus Schilling, Vincenz Priessnitz, and William Osler. After him are Eugene Botkin, Harvey Cushing, Michael DeBakey, Christian Bohr, Leon Pinsker, and May-Britt Moser.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1643, Jean-Baptiste Denys ranks 15. Before him are Johann Adam Reincken, Bahadur Shah I, René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, Ilona Zrínyi, Jean Chardin, and Fran Krsto Frankopan. After him is Vasily Golitsyn. Among people deceased in 1704, Jean-Baptiste Denys ranks 9. Before him are Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia, Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, Guillaume de l'Hôpital, Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Georg Muffat, and Princess Frederica Amalia of Denmark. After him are Selim I Giray, Charles Plumier, Menno van Coehoorn, John Charles, Count Palatine of Gelnhausen, Isabella Leonarda, and Louis Bourdaloue.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Baptiste Denys ranks 2,294 out of 6,011. Before him are Honoré d'Urfé (1567), Saint Martial (300), Victorine Meurent (1844), Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval (1851), Violette Leduc (1907), and Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant (1797). After him are Hans von Salmuth (1888), Marguerite of Lorraine (1615), Benjamin Péret (1899), Henry Beaufort (1374), Gonzalo Higuaín (1987), and Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens (1704).

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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), Pierre Paul Émile Roux (1853), Guillaume Dupuytren (1777), Michel-Gabriel Paccard (1757), and Edmond Locard (1877). After him are Antoine Louis (1723), Ernest Duchesne (1874), Pierre Fauchard (1679), Louis de Jaucourt (1704), Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat (1788), and Jean Pierre Flourens (1794).

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