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John Ray

1627 - 1705

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John Ray FRS (29 November 1627 – 17 January 1705) was a Christian English naturalist widely regarded as one of the earliest of the English parson-naturalists. Until 1670, he wrote his name as John Wray. From then on, he used 'Ray', after "having ascertained that such had been the practice of his family before him". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Ray has received more than 420,804 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). John Ray is the 138th most popular biologist (down from 112th in 2019), the 811th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 792nd in 2019) and the 20th most popular British Biologist.

John Ray was an English naturalist who wrote about the natural world and the classification of plants and animals.

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  • 420k

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  • 61.16

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.04

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.30

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, John Ray ranks 138 out of 1,097. Before him are Giovanni Sartori, Elias Magnus Fries, E. O. Wilson, Bert Sakmann, Gerald Edelman, and Tomas Lindahl. After him are Carl Peter Thunberg, Hamilton O. Smith, Mario Capecchi, William Carey, J. Michael Bishop, and William Bateson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1627, John Ray ranks 7. Before him are Robert Boyle, Turhan Hatice Sultan, Shivaji, Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier, and Aşub Sultan. After him are Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten, Willem van Aelst, Countess Louise Henriette of Nassau, Petro Doroshenko, Mohammad-Baqer Majlesi, and Landgravine Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel. Among people deceased in 1705, John Ray ranks 8. Before him are Jacob Bernoulli, Emeric Thököly, Ninon de l'Enclos, Luca Giordano, Sophia Charlotte of Hanover, and Catherine of Braganza. After him are Philipp Spener, Madame d'Aulnoy, Pierre Beauchamp, George William, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Guillaume Amontons, and Princess Dorothea Charlotte of Brandenburg-Ansbach.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Ray ranks 811 out of 8,785. Before him are John Langdon Down (1828), Adam Ferguson (1723), Diana Wynne Jones (1934), Robert Graves (1895), David Cameron (1966), and Osborne Reynolds (1842). After him are Tim Roth (1961), Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany (1158), John Harrison (1693), Edmund Cartwright (1743), Thomas Cole (1801), and Eric Burdon (1941).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, John Ray ranks 20. Before him are Erasmus Darwin (1731), Philip Sclater (1829), Oliver Smithies (1925), Julian Huxley (1887), John Gurdon (1933), and Charles Scott Sherrington (1952). After him are William Carey (1761), William Bateson (1861), Martin Evans (1941), John Boyd Orr (1880), Anna Atkins (1799), and George Robert Gray (1808).

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