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Joy Adamson

1910 - 1980

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Friederike Victoria "Joy" Adamson (née Gessner; 20 January 1910 – 3 January 1980) was a naturalist, artist and author. Her book, Born Free, describes her experiences raising a lion cub named Elsa. Born Free was printed in several languages, and made into an Academy Award-winning movie of the same name. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joy Adamson has received more than 821,329 page views. Her biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Joy Adamson is the 241st most popular biologist (up from 266th in 2019), the 455th most popular biography from Austria (up from 458th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Austrian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Joy Adamson ranks 241 out of 841Before her are Pieter Boddaert, Hieronymus Bock, James Dwight Dana, Sergei Winogradsky, Josias Braun-Blanquet, and Martin Chalfie. After her are Otto Brunfels, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Michał Boym, Félix d'Herelle, Johann Baptist von Spix, and George Shaw.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Joy Adamson ranks 88Before her are Masayoshi Ōhira, Julien Gracq, Maria Cebotari, Ramaswamy Venkataraman, Kim Il, and Dorothea Tanning. After her are Jack Hawkins, Giorgio Perlasca, Carmine Coppola, Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme, Rudolf Lange, and John W. Campbell. Among people deceased in 1980, Joy Adamson ranks 84Before her are Olga Chekhova, Dietrich von Saucken, Salah al-Din al-Bitar, Marino Marini, Bert Kaempfert, and Josias Braun-Blanquet. After her are Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr, Katia Mann, Valko Chervenkov, Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff, Tadao Takayama, and Alexander Mach.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Joy Adamson ranks 455 out of 1,237Before her are Barbara Valentin (1940), Archduke Friedrich of Austria (1821), Wolf Huber (1485), Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein (1740), Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg (1638), and Martin Weinek (1964). After her are Josyf Slipyj (1892), Joseph Anton Koch (1768), Freddy Quinn (1931), Georg Alexander Pick (1859), Archduchess Magdalena of Austria (1532), and Moritz von Schwind (1804).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Austria

Among biologists born in Austria, Joy Adamson ranks 5Before her are Karl Landsteiner (1868), Konrad Lorenz (1903), Karl von Frisch (1886), and Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1901). After her are Erich von Tschermak (1871), Othenio Abel (1875), Clemens von Pirquet (1874), Leopold Fitzinger (1802), Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti (1735), Franz Unger (1800), and Ignaz Schiffermüller (1727).