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John Latham

1740 - 1837

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John Latham (27 June 1740 – 4 February 1837) was an English physician, naturalist and author. His main works were A General Synopsis of Birds (1781–1801) and General History of Birds (1821–1828). He was able to examine specimens of Australian birds which reached England in the last twenty years of the 18th century, and was responsible for providing English names for many of them. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Latham has received more than 10,780 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). John Latham is the 406th most popular physician (down from 326th in 2019), the 2,329th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,832nd in 2019) and the 30th most popular British Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, John Latham ranks 406 out of 502. Before him are Wilhelm Stekel, Jim Yong Kim, Paul Neumann, Kusumoto Ine, Maximilian Bircher-Benner, and Theodoor Hendrik van de Velde. After him are Vladimir Filatov, Hiroshi Nakajima, Bernard de Jussieu, Emil Aarestrup, Kadambini Ganguly, and William Stewart Halsted.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1740, John Latham ranks 21. Before him are Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine, James Boswell, Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau, Matthias Claudius, Juan Ignacio Molina, and Anders Johan Lexell. After him are Johan Tobias Sergel, Princess Ernestine of Saxe-Weimar, Johan Andreas Murray, Samuel Arnold, Ivan Lepyokhin, and John Sullivan. Among people deceased in 1837, John Latham ranks 30. Before him are Akbar II, Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli, Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus, Marguerite Gérard, François-Xavier Fabre, and Prince Frederick of Hesse-Kassel. After him are Yuri Lisyansky, Alexander Bestuzhev, John Soane, Princess Louise Eleonore of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Valentino Fioravanti, and Joseph Grimaldi.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Latham ranks 2,329 out of 7,765. Before him are Ernest Marsden (1889), Delroy Lindo (1952), Prince Maurice of Battenberg (1891), Steven Knight (1959), Anthony Berkeley Cox (1893), and Edward Coke (1552). After him are Auguste Couder (1789), Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone (1874), Lytton Strachey (1880), Dennis Viollet (1933), Roger Fry (1866), and Margaret of Scotland, Queen of Norway (1261).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among physicians born in United Kingdom, John Latham ranks 30. Before him are Clarke Abel (1780), Cicely Saunders (1918), Henry Gray (1827), Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836), William Cullen (1710), and William Bayliss (1860). After him are James Braid (1795), William Gull (1816), Francis Buchanan-Hamilton (1762), William Turner (1510), Rutherford Alcock (1809), and Harry Seeley (1839).

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