BIOLOGIST

John Gerard

1545 - 1612

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John Gerard (also John Gerarde, 1545–1612) was an English herbalist with a large garden in Holborn, now part of London. His 1,484-page illustrated Herball, or Generall Historie of Plantes, first published in 1597, became a popular gardening and herbal book in English in the 17th century. Except for some added plants from his own garden and from North America, Gerard's Herbal is largely a plagiarised English translation of Rembert Dodoens's 1554 herbal, itself highly popular in Dutch, Latin, French and other English translations. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Gerard has received more than 189,656 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). John Gerard is the 756th most popular biologist (down from 726th in 2019), the 3,660th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,613th in 2019) and the 103rd most popular British Biologist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 190k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.55

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.51

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.03

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year John Gerard has had the most page views in the with 19,883 views, followed by Chinese (1,498), and Spanish (1,362). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Catalan (59.64%), Hebrew (55.70%), and Belarusian (49.63%)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, John Gerard ranks 756 out of 1,097. Before him are George Romanes, Mary F. Lyon, Charles Wyville Thomson, August W. Eichler, Pál Kitaibel, and Michele Tenore. After him are Friedrich August Marschall von Bieberstein, Albert Bruce Jackson, James Sowerby, Alexei Fedchenko, Karl Moritz Schumann, and David Keilin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1545, John Gerard ranks 16. Before him are John II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg, Cığalazade Yusuf Sinan Pasha, Guidobaldo del Monte, Luzzasco Luzzaschi, Powhatan, and Frans Pourbus the Elder.  Among people deceased in 1612, John Gerard ranks 30. Before him are Patriarch Hermogenes of Moscow, Nicholas Rémy, Giulio Cesare Polerio, Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah, Juan de la Cueva, and Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Gerard ranks 3,660 out of 8,785. Before him are Arthur Roche (1950), Gabrielle Anwar (1970), Kris Marshall (1973), Swithun (800), Patricia Medina (1919), and Peter F. Hamilton (1960). After him are Eleanor Farjeon (1881), Aynsley Dunbar (1946), Cyril Scott (1879), Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex (1591), Bonnie Wright (1991), and Toby Stephens (1969).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, John Gerard ranks 103. Before him are Marmaduke Tunstall (1743), Miriam Rothschild (1908), John Anderson (1833), Louis Fraser (1810), Mary F. Lyon (1925), and Charles Wyville Thomson (1830). After him are Albert Bruce Jackson (1876), James Sowerby (1757), William Thomas Blanford (1832), Henry Baker (1698), Thomas Andrew Knight (1759), and Mary Elizabeth Barber (1818).

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