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John Harvey Kellogg

1852 - 1943

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John Harvey Kellogg (February 26, 1852 – December 14, 1943) was an American businessman, inventor, physician, and advocate of the Progressive Movement. He was the director of the Battle Creek Sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan, founded by members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. It combined aspects of a European spa, a hydrotherapy institution, a hospital and high-class hotel. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Harvey Kellogg has received more than 3,676,769 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). John Harvey Kellogg is the 265th most popular physician (down from 256th in 2019), the 2,245th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,244th in 2019) and the 29th most popular American Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, John Harvey Kellogg ranks 265 out of 726. Before him are Irmfried Eberl, Édouard Séguin, Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi, Joseph Škoda, Leon Pinsker, and Constantine the African. After him are Cicely Saunders, Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, May-Britt Moser, Richard Axel, Bian Que, and James Barry.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1852, John Harvey Kellogg ranks 39. Before him are Hans Vaihinger, Edmund Leighton, Ion Luca Caragiale, Yamamoto Gonnohyōe, Max von Gallwitz, and I. L. Peretz. After him are Archduke Johann Salvator of Austria, Théophile Delcassé, John Henry Poynting, Joseph Freinademetz, Frederick Augustus II, Grand Duke of Oldenburg, and Vera Figner. Among people deceased in 1943, John Harvey Kellogg ranks 59. Before him are Kurt Huber, Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord, Takeda Sōkaku, R. G. Collingwood, Christoph Probst, and Charlotte Salomon. After him are Czesława Kwoka, Lin Sen, Wilhelm Kube, Jovan Dučić, Fethi Okyar, and Hans Woellke.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Harvey Kellogg ranks 2,245 out of 20,380. Before him are Dean Acheson (1893), George Stevens (1904), Rhea Seehorn (1972), Thomas Gordon (1918), Wade Williams (1961), and Charles Eames (1907). After him are William M. Branham (1909), Henry Bergman (1868), John Landis (1950), Carl Wieman (1951), Cy Twombly (1928), and Robert Silverberg (1935).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, John Harvey Kellogg ranks 29. Before him are Baruch Samuel Blumberg (1925), Patch Adams (1945), Randy Schekman (1948), Henry Heimlich (1920), Robert Lefkowitz (1943), and John O'Keefe (1939). After him are Daniel Carleton Gajdusek (1923), Richard Axel (1946), Michael DeBakey (1908), Drew Weissman (1959), Horace Wells (1815), and James Curtis Hepburn (1815).

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