1800 - 1875
John Edward Gray (12 February 1800 – 7 March 1875) was a British zoologist. He was the elder brother of zoologist George Robert Gray and son of the pharmacologist and botanist Samuel Frederick Gray (1766–1828). The standard author abbreviation J.E.Gray is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Edward Gray has received more than 463,646 page views. His biography is available in 60 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 57 in 2019). John Edward Gray is the 66th most popular biologist (down from 56th in 2019), the 581st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 545th in 2019) and the 12th most popular British Biologist.
John Edward Gray is most famous for being the first person to publish a comprehensive list of animal species.
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Among biologists, John Edward Gray ranks 66 out of 841. Before him are Stanley B. Prusiner, Ernst Mayr, Hermann Joseph Muller, Linda B. Buck, George Beadle, and Max Theiler. After him are Herman Boerhaave, Alexander Oparin, John Franklin Enders, Lynn Margulis, Irwin Rose, and Jules A. Hoffmann.
1942 - Present
HPI: 64.01
Rank: 60
1904 - 2005
HPI: 63.96
Rank: 61
1890 - 1967
HPI: 63.88
Rank: 62
1947 - Present
HPI: 63.76
Rank: 63
1903 - 1989
HPI: 63.73
Rank: 64
1899 - 1972
HPI: 63.52
Rank: 65
1800 - 1875
HPI: 63.48
Rank: 66
1668 - 1738
HPI: 63.47
Rank: 67
1894 - 1980
HPI: 63.45
Rank: 68
1897 - 1985
HPI: 63.36
Rank: 69
1938 - 2011
HPI: 63.23
Rank: 70
1926 - 2015
HPI: 63.18
Rank: 71
1941 - Present
HPI: 63.09
Rank: 72
Among people born in 1800, John Edward Gray ranks 9. Before him are Emperor Ninkō, Charles Goodyear, Millard Fillmore, Henry Fox Talbot, France Prešeren, and James Clark Ross. After him are Jean-Baptiste Dumas, Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Ludwig Ritter von Köchel, John Brown, Paul Frederick, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and Lars Levi Laestadius. Among people deceased in 1875, John Edward Gray ranks 11. Before him are Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Andrew Johnson, Tongzhi Emperor, Charles Lyell, Isaac Singer, and Éliphas Lévi. After him are Charles Wheatstone, Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, Moses Hess, Francis V, Duke of Modena, Pierre Larousse, and Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux.
1800 - 1846
HPI: 68.34
Rank: 3
1800 - 1860
HPI: 68.17
Rank: 4
1800 - 1874
HPI: 67.84
Rank: 5
1800 - 1877
HPI: 65.48
Rank: 6
1800 - 1849
HPI: 64.95
Rank: 7
1800 - 1862
HPI: 63.77
Rank: 8
1800 - 1875
HPI: 63.48
Rank: 9
1800 - 1884
HPI: 61.92
Rank: 10
1800 - 1831
HPI: 61.68
Rank: 11
1800 - 1877
HPI: 60.80
Rank: 12
1800 - 1859
HPI: 60.51
Rank: 13
1800 - 1842
HPI: 59.88
Rank: 14
1800 - 1861
HPI: 58.95
Rank: 15
1796 - 1875
HPI: 72.71
Rank: 5
1808 - 1875
HPI: 69.68
Rank: 6
1856 - 1875
HPI: 67.58
Rank: 7
1797 - 1875
HPI: 66.60
Rank: 8
1811 - 1875
HPI: 66.16
Rank: 9
1810 - 1875
HPI: 65.71
Rank: 10
1800 - 1875
HPI: 63.48
Rank: 11
1802 - 1875
HPI: 62.04
Rank: 12
1822 - 1875
HPI: 61.81
Rank: 13
1812 - 1875
HPI: 61.81
Rank: 14
1819 - 1875
HPI: 60.67
Rank: 15
1817 - 1875
HPI: 60.23
Rank: 16
1827 - 1875
HPI: 60.15
Rank: 17
Among people born in United Kingdom, John Edward Gray ranks 581 out of 7,765. Before him are David Irving (1938), James Francis Edward Stuart (1688), Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (1631), John Macleod (1876), William Stanley Jevons (1835), and Gerard Butler (1969). After him are Catherine Zeta-Jones (1969), Kenneth MacAlpin (810), Sean Bean (1959), Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (1897), Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne (1862), and Denis Law (1940).
1938 - Present
HPI: 63.54
Rank: 575
1688 - 1766
HPI: 63.53
Rank: 576
1631 - 1660
HPI: 63.52
Rank: 577
1876 - 1935
HPI: 63.51
Rank: 578
1835 - 1882
HPI: 63.51
Rank: 579
1969 - Present
HPI: 63.51
Rank: 580
1800 - 1875
HPI: 63.48
Rank: 581
1969 - Present
HPI: 63.43
Rank: 582
810 - 858
HPI: 63.43
Rank: 583
1959 - Present
HPI: 63.43
Rank: 584
1897 - 1967
HPI: 63.41
Rank: 585
1862 - 1938
HPI: 63.40
Rank: 586
1940 - Present
HPI: 63.40
Rank: 587
Among biologists born in United Kingdom, John Edward Gray ranks 12. Before him are Robert Brown (1773), Thomas Henry Huxley (1825), Christian de Duve (1917), Richard Owen (1804), Robert Edwards (1925), and Erasmus Darwin (1731). After him are Philip Miller (1691), Julian Huxley (1887), John Gurdon (1933), William Carey (1761), Philip Sclater (1829), and John Ray (1627).
1773 - 1858
HPI: 70.60
Rank: 6
1825 - 1895
HPI: 69.97
Rank: 7
1917 - 2013
HPI: 66.33
Rank: 8
1804 - 1892
HPI: 66.14
Rank: 9
1925 - 2013
HPI: 65.57
Rank: 10
1731 - 1802
HPI: 64.38
Rank: 11
1800 - 1875
HPI: 63.48
Rank: 12
1691 - 1771
HPI: 62.98
Rank: 13
1887 - 1975
HPI: 62.94
Rank: 14
1933 - Present
HPI: 62.40
Rank: 15
1761 - 1834
HPI: 62.18
Rank: 16
1829 - 1913
HPI: 61.46
Rank: 17
1627 - 1705
HPI: 60.98
Rank: 18