BIOLOGIST

Joseph Banks

1743 - 1820

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Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet, (24 February [O.S. 13 February] 1743 – 19 June 1820) was an English naturalist, botanist, and patron of the natural sciences. Banks made his name on the 1766 natural-history expedition to Newfoundland and Labrador. He took part in Captain James Cook's first great voyage (1768–1771), visiting Brazil, Tahiti, and after 6 months in New Zealand, Australia, returning to immediate fame. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Banks has received more than 989,056 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Joseph Banks is the 213th most popular biologist (down from 180th in 2019), the 1,235th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,139th in 2019) and the 34th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Joseph Banks ranks 213 out of 1,097. Before him are Mikhail Tsvet, Friedrich Parrot, Johann Reinhold Forster, Thomas Browne, Wilbur Scoville, and Tomitaro Makino. After him are Hans Driesch, Hideyo Noguchi, Michael W. Young, Desmond Morris, Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim, and Stephan Endlicher.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1743, Joseph Banks ranks 19. Before him are Carl Peter Thunberg, Edmund Cartwright, René Just Haüy, William I, Elector of Hesse, Louis Claude de Saint-Martin, and Gavrila Derzhavin. After him are Giuseppe Gazzaniga, Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova, Victor Amadeus II, Prince of Carignano, Princess Carolina of Orange-Nassau, William Paley, and Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst. Among people deceased in 1820, Joseph Banks ranks 15. Before him are Gia Long, Henri Christophe, Manuel Belgrano, Jean-Lambert Tallien, François Joseph Lefebvre, and Wilhelmina of Prussia, Princess of Orange. After him are Clement Mary Hofbauer, Augustin Barruel, Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney, Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia, Princess Wilhelmina Caroline of Denmark, and Alexander Mackenzie.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Joseph Banks ranks 1,235 out of 8,785. Before him are Robert Stirling (1790), Ciarán Hinds (1953), Frances Shand Kydd (1936), Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (1855), John Hunter (1728), and James Faulkner (1948). After him are Robert Faurisson (1929), John Entwistle (1944), Prince Philippe, Duke of Orléans (1869), Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone (1883), William McDougall (1871), and Ebenezer Howard (1850).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Joseph Banks ranks 34. Before him are Henry Walter Bates (1825), George Shaw (1751), Charles Bell (1774), Oldfield Thomas (1858), J. B. S. Haldane (1892), and Thomas Browne (1605). After him are Desmond Morris (1928), Thomas Cavalier-Smith (1942), Michael Houghton (1949), Nehemiah Grew (1641), William Aiton (1731), and Richard Henderson (1945).

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