INSPIRATION

Joseph Bell

1837 - 1911

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Joseph Bell FRCSE (2 December 1837 – 4 October 1911) was a Scottish surgeon and lecturer at the medical school of the University of Edinburgh in the 19th century. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Bell has received more than 790,891 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Bell is the 5th most popular inspiration, the 1,056th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,119th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular British Inspiration.

Memorability Metrics

  • 790k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 64.84

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.80

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.58

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INSPIRATIONS

Among inspirations, Joseph Bell ranks 5 out of 10. Before him are Vlad the Impaler, Eugène François Vidocq, Johann Georg Faust, and Alice Liddell. After him are George Floyd, Jack LaLanne, Andrew Wakefield, and Mahsa Amini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1837, Joseph Bell ranks 33. Before him are Vasily Radlov, Stephanie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Édouard Stephan, Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione, Abraham Kuyper, and James Murray. After him are Arnold Janssen, Henry Draper, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Wild Bill Hickok, Pierre Auguste Cot, and Maria Domenica Mazzarello. Among people deceased in 1911, Joseph Bell ranks 21. Before him are Edward Whymper, Ahmed ‘Urabi, Princess Maria Clotilde of Savoy, Laura Marx, Theodor Escherich, and Jules Joseph Lefebvre. After him are Jozef Israëls, Jack Daniel, Sister Nivedita, Johan Svendsen, Jules Brunet, and Christian Bohr.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Joseph Bell ranks 1,056 out of 8,785. Before him are John Hanning Speke (1827), Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom (1768), Peter D. Mitchell (1920), Inigo Jones (1573), Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (1900), and Reginald Pole (1500). After him are Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax (1881), Ron Dennis (1947), George Boleyn, 2nd Viscount Rochford (1504), Frank Lloyd (1886), Stephen Boyd (1931), and Thomas Willis (1621).

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Among INSPIRATIONS In United Kingdom

Among inspirations born in United Kingdom, Joseph Bell ranks 2. Before him are Alice Liddell (1852). After him are Andrew Wakefield (1957).

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