1823 - 1891
Joseph Mellick Leidy (September 9, 1823 – April 30, 1891) was an American paleontologist, parasitologist and anatomist. Leidy was professor of anatomy at the University of Pennsylvania, later becoming a professor of natural history at Swarthmore College and the director of scientific and educational programs at the Wagner Free Institute of Science. His book Extinct Fauna of Dakota and Nebraska (1869) contained many species not previously described and many previously unknown on the North American continent. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Leidy has received more than 169,252 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Joseph Leidy is the 664th most popular biologist (down from 562nd in 2019), the 6,368th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,091st in 2019) and the 95th most popular American Biologist.
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Among biologists, Joseph Leidy ranks 664 out of 841. Before him are Charlotte Auerbach, Théodore Monod, Alexei Fedchenko, Georg Dionysius Ehret, Johan Andreas Murray, and Paul Gervais. After him are Andrew Smith, Heinrich Zollinger, Edward Newton, Eduard Oscar Schmidt, Alfred G. Knudson, and David Ho.
1899 - 1994
HPI: 46.98
Rank: 658
1902 - 2000
HPI: 46.97
Rank: 659
1844 - 1873
HPI: 46.97
Rank: 660
1708 - 1770
HPI: 46.95
Rank: 661
1740 - 1791
HPI: 46.93
Rank: 662
1816 - 1879
HPI: 46.93
Rank: 663
1823 - 1891
HPI: 46.91
Rank: 664
1797 - 1872
HPI: 46.90
Rank: 665
1818 - 1859
HPI: 46.90
Rank: 666
1832 - 1897
HPI: 46.90
Rank: 667
1823 - 1886
HPI: 46.90
Rank: 668
1922 - 2016
HPI: 46.88
Rank: 669
1952 - Present
HPI: 46.86
Rank: 670
Among people born in 1823, Joseph Leidy ranks 60. Before him are Oscar Dickson, Gustav Adolf, Cardinal Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, John Evans, Gonçalves Dias, Lascăr Catargiu, and Daniel Harrwitz. After him are Eduard Oscar Schmidt, William M. Tweed, Emilio Arrieta, Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent, Francisco Asenjo Barbieri, and Spencer Fullerton Baird. Among people deceased in 1891, Joseph Leidy ranks 80. Before him are Ahmed Vefik Pasha, Jean Stas, Laza Lazarević, Carl Johan Thyselius, Henry Litolff, and Sarah Childress Polk. After him are Nikolay Ilminsky, Lajos Haynald, Constantine Paparrigopoulos, Anton Heinrich Springer, Edwin Long, and Calixa Lavallée.
1823 - 1897
HPI: 48.31
Rank: 54
1823 - 1896
HPI: 48.16
Rank: 55
1823 - 1908
HPI: 47.92
Rank: 56
1823 - 1864
HPI: 47.89
Rank: 57
1823 - 1899
HPI: 47.44
Rank: 58
1823 - 1884
HPI: 47.05
Rank: 59
1823 - 1891
HPI: 46.91
Rank: 60
1823 - 1886
HPI: 46.90
Rank: 61
1823 - 1878
HPI: 46.68
Rank: 62
1823 - 1894
HPI: 46.27
Rank: 63
1823 - 1900
HPI: 45.68
Rank: 64
1823 - 1894
HPI: 45.60
Rank: 65
1823 - 1887
HPI: 44.78
Rank: 66
1823 - 1891
HPI: 49.35
Rank: 74
1813 - 1891
HPI: 49.20
Rank: 75
1851 - 1891
HPI: 49.19
Rank: 76
1811 - 1891
HPI: 48.17
Rank: 77
1818 - 1891
HPI: 47.26
Rank: 78
1803 - 1891
HPI: 47.05
Rank: 79
1823 - 1891
HPI: 46.91
Rank: 80
1822 - 1891
HPI: 46.68
Rank: 81
1816 - 1891
HPI: 46.08
Rank: 82
1815 - 1891
HPI: 45.88
Rank: 83
1825 - 1891
HPI: 45.87
Rank: 84
1829 - 1891
HPI: 45.77
Rank: 85
1842 - 1891
HPI: 45.65
Rank: 86
Among people born in United States, Joseph Leidy ranks 6,368 out of 18,182. Before him are Kevin Conway (1942), Stephen Root (1951), Michael Imperioli (1966), Andy Roddick (1982), Alan Dean Foster (1946), and Francis Davis Millet (1848). After him are Lewis Sheldon (1874), Floyd Gottfredson (1905), Alison Arngrim (1962), Henry Dreyfuss (1904), Benjamin Orr (1947), and Sylvia Browne (1936).
1942 - 2020
HPI: 46.92
Rank: 6,362
1951 - Present
HPI: 46.92
Rank: 6,363
1966 - Present
HPI: 46.91
Rank: 6,364
1982 - Present
HPI: 46.91
Rank: 6,365
1946 - Present
HPI: 46.91
Rank: 6,366
1848 - 1912
HPI: 46.91
Rank: 6,367
1823 - 1891
HPI: 46.91
Rank: 6,368
1874 - 1960
HPI: 46.90
Rank: 6,369
1905 - 1986
HPI: 46.90
Rank: 6,370
1962 - Present
HPI: 46.90
Rank: 6,371
1904 - 1972
HPI: 46.90
Rank: 6,372
1947 - 2000
HPI: 46.90
Rank: 6,373
1936 - 2013
HPI: 46.90
Rank: 6,374
Among biologists born in United States, Joseph Leidy ranks 95. Before him are Jack Horner (1946), Elmer Drew Merrill (1876), George Newbold Lawrence (1806), Benjamin Smith Barton (1766), Alice Hamilton (1869), and Nathaniel Lord Britton (1859). After him are Alfred G. Knudson (1922), Elizabeth Gertrude Britton (1858), Theobald Smith (1859), Daniel Giraud Elliot (1835), Karl Patterson Schmidt (1890), and Robert Trivers (1943).
1946 - Present
HPI: 47.82
Rank: 89
1876 - 1956
HPI: 47.66
Rank: 90
1806 - 1895
HPI: 47.43
Rank: 91
1766 - 1815
HPI: 47.31
Rank: 92
1869 - 1970
HPI: 47.20
Rank: 93
1859 - 1934
HPI: 47.11
Rank: 94
1823 - 1891
HPI: 46.91
Rank: 95
1922 - 2016
HPI: 46.88
Rank: 96
1858 - 1934
HPI: 46.80
Rank: 97
1859 - 1934
HPI: 46.49
Rank: 98
1835 - 1915
HPI: 46.24
Rank: 99
1890 - 1957
HPI: 46.18
Rank: 100
1943 - Present
HPI: 46.05
Rank: 101