BIOLOGIST

John Lindley

1799 - 1865

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John Lindley FRS (5 February 1799 – 1 November 1865) was an English botanist, gardener and orchidologist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Lindley has received more than 146,273 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). John Lindley is the 263rd most popular biologist (down from 226th in 2019), the 1,481st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,474th in 2019) and the 42nd most popular British Biologist.

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    Page Views (PV)

  • 62.44

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.98

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.85

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, John Lindley ranks 263 out of 1,097. Before him are Michael Rosbash, Carol W. Greider, Sergei Winogradsky, Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link, Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, and James Bond. After him are Henrietta Lacks, Erik Pontoppidan, Johann Friedrich von Brandt, Eric F. Wieschaus, Francis Darwin, and David Julius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1799, John Lindley ranks 17. Before him are Fromental Halévy, Anna Atkins, Christian Friedrich Schönbein, Rodolphe Töpffer, Karl Adolph von Basedow, and Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby. After him are Vincenz Priessnitz, Countess of Ségur, René Caillié, Almeida Garrett, Ferenc Gyulay, and Duchess Amelia of Württemberg. Among people deceased in 1865, John Lindley ranks 30. Before him are George Phillips Bond, Shigechiyo Izumi, Joseph Paxton, James Barry, Antoine Wiertz, and Sebastián Iradier. After him are Andrés Bello, Princess Maria Ferdinanda of Saxony, Sengge Rinchen, Felice Romani, Madeleine Sophie Barat, and Andrés de Santa Cruz.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Lindley ranks 1,481 out of 8,785. Before him are Emilia Clarke (1986), Howard Staunton (1810), Billy Connolly (1942), John Eliot Gardiner (1943), Bertram Ramsay (1883), and Olivia Colman (1974). After him are Iain Glen (1961), John Rolfe (1585), Vince Clarke (1960), Sam Mendes (1965), Arthur Rackham (1867), and Arthur Phillip (1738).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, John Lindley ranks 42. Before him are Thomas Cavalier-Smith (1942), Michael Houghton (1949), Nehemiah Grew (1641), William Aiton (1731), Richard Henderson (1945), and Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817). After him are Francis Darwin (1848), Jack W. Szostak (1952), John Maynard Smith (1920), George Bentham (1800), Patrick Geddes (1854), and John Sulston (1942).

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