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Joel Roberts Poinsett

1779 - 1851

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Joel Roberts Poinsett (March 2, 1779 – December 12, 1851) was an American physician, diplomat and botanist. He was the first U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joel Roberts Poinsett has received more than 275,576 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Joel Roberts Poinsett is the 526th most popular physician (down from 424th in 2019), the 6,567th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,999th in 2019) and the 59th most popular American Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Joel Roberts Poinsett ranks 526 out of 502Before him are Jacinto Convit, Ferdinand von Mueller, William Stukeley, Russell M. Nelson, Florence R. Sabin, and Franz Josef Ruprecht. After him are Friedrich von Huene, John Arbuthnot, Paul Hermann, Joseph Schröter, Bidhan Chandra Roy, and Léon Jean Marie Dufour.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1779, Joel Roberts Poinsett ranks 32Before him are Ali-Morad Khan Zand, Tabitha Babbitt, Augustin Saint-Hilaire, Mountstuart Elphinstone, Washington Allston, and Louis de Freycinet. After him are Peter Mark Roget, Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough, Stephen Decatur, Zebulon Pike, Joseph Story, and Samuel D. Ingham. Among people deceased in 1851, Joel Roberts Poinsett ranks 42Before him are Ramón Freire, Andrés Quintana Roo, William Nicol, Manuel Gómez Pedraza, Marie Jules César Savigny, and Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet. After him are Giovanni Berchet, Sylvester Graham, Samuel George Morton, Joanna Baillie, Levi Woodbury, and Dean Mahomed.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joel Roberts Poinsett ranks 6,567 out of 18,182Before him are Steve Forbes (1947), Aloma Wright (1950), Stephen Dorff (1973), Ron Leibman (1937), Letitia Christian Tyler (1790), and Florence Bascom (1862). After him are Melinda Dillon (1939), Shane Dawson (1988), Evan Stone (1964), James Michael Harvey (1949), Paul J. Weitz (1932), and Mother Angelica (1923).

Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, Joel Roberts Poinsett ranks 59Before him are Benjamin Rush (1745), Jeffrey Ullman (1942), Ancel Keys (1904), William Beaumont (1785), Russell M. Nelson (1924), and Florence R. Sabin (1871). After him are Walter Reed (1851), Leila Denmark (1898), Robert Atkins (1930), Dorothy Hansine Andersen (1901), Thomas Horsfield (1773), and Bernard Nathanson (1926).