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John Walter Gregory

1864 - 1932

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John Walter Gregory, , (27 January 1864 – 2 June 1932) was a British geologist and explorer, known principally for his work on glacial geology and on the geography and geology of Australia and East Africa. The Gregory Rift in the Great Rift Valley is named in his honour. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Walter Gregory has received more than 41,046 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). John Walter Gregory is the 64th most popular geographer (down from 55th in 2019), the 3,350th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,880th in 2019) and the 5th most popular British Geographer.

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  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.03

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.96

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among GEOGRAPHERS

Among geographers, John Walter Gregory ranks 64 out of 67. Before him are Vaclav Smil, Ellen Churchill Semple, Adolf Stieler, Torsten Hägerstrand, Anton Friedrich Büsching, and Doreen Massey. After him are Curt von François, Ellsworth Huntington, Carl O. Sauer, Yuly Shokalsky, Herman Moll, and Johannes Gabriel Granö.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1864, John Walter Gregory ranks 121. Before him are Kamini Roy, Maud Watson, Jens Ferdinand Willumsen, Charles Dawson, Aleksey Shakhmatov, and Herman Heijermans. After him are José Pardo y Barreda, Sergei Zubatov, Ransom E. Olds, Jozef Murgaš, Stéphane Javelle, and F. Holland Day. Among people deceased in 1932, John Walter Gregory ranks 100. Before him are Dora Carrington, Henry M. Leland, Hart Crane, Constantin Coandă, Carmen de Burgos, and Giuseppe Vitali. After him are László Lukács, Kliment Boyadzhiev, Albert Londres, Marcel Boulenger, Hermann Gunkel, and Ioannis Chrysafis.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Walter Gregory ranks 3,350 out of 7,765. Before him are Ralph H. Fowler (1889), Jack Sheppard (1702), Gary Lewis (1957), Tony Kaye (1952), Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835), and Brian Redman (1937). After him are Graeme Souness (1953), Frederick Browning (1896), John Farey Sr. (1766), Grace Aguilar (1816), Jane Marcet (1769), and Donald Rayfield (1942).

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Among GEOGRAPHERS In United Kingdom

Among geographers born in United Kingdom, John Walter Gregory ranks 5. Before him are George Everest (1790), David Harvey (1935), James Lovelock (1919), and Doreen Massey (1944). After him are John Speed (1551) and Thomas Griffith Taylor (1880).

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