1910 - 1980
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, Joy Adamson ranks 241 out of 841. Before 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.
1730 - 1795
HPI: 55.48
Rank: 235
1498 - 1554
HPI: 55.45
Rank: 236
1813 - 1895
HPI: 55.44
Rank: 237
1856 - 1953
HPI: 55.43
Rank: 238
1884 - 1980
HPI: 55.37
Rank: 239
1947 - Present
HPI: 55.36
Rank: 240
1910 - 1980
HPI: 55.36
Rank: 241
1488 - 1534
HPI: 55.35
Rank: 242
1817 - 1911
HPI: 55.34
Rank: 243
1614 - 1659
HPI: 55.31
Rank: 244
1873 - 1949
HPI: 55.28
Rank: 245
1781 - 1826
HPI: 55.27
Rank: 246
1751 - 1813
HPI: 55.24
Rank: 247
Among people born in 1910, Joy Adamson ranks 88. Before 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 84. Before 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.
1910 - 1980
HPI: 55.92
Rank: 82
1910 - 2007
HPI: 55.66
Rank: 83
1910 - 1949
HPI: 55.53
Rank: 84
1910 - 2009
HPI: 55.49
Rank: 85
1910 - 1984
HPI: 55.45
Rank: 86
1910 - 2012
HPI: 55.44
Rank: 87
1910 - 1980
HPI: 55.36
Rank: 88
1910 - 1973
HPI: 55.35
Rank: 89
1910 - 1992
HPI: 55.18
Rank: 90
1910 - 1991
HPI: 55.08
Rank: 91
1910 - 2009
HPI: 55.07
Rank: 92
1910 - 1945
HPI: 55.06
Rank: 93
1910 - 1971
HPI: 54.99
Rank: 94
1897 - 1980
HPI: 55.68
Rank: 78
1892 - 1980
HPI: 55.65
Rank: 79
1912 - 1980
HPI: 55.55
Rank: 80
1901 - 1980
HPI: 55.45
Rank: 81
1923 - 1980
HPI: 55.39
Rank: 82
1884 - 1980
HPI: 55.37
Rank: 83
1910 - 1980
HPI: 55.36
Rank: 84
1935 - 1980
HPI: 55.34
Rank: 85
1883 - 1980
HPI: 55.27
Rank: 86
1900 - 1980
HPI: 55.27
Rank: 87
1905 - 1980
HPI: 55.23
Rank: 88
1904 - 1980
HPI: 54.95
Rank: 89
1902 - 1980
HPI: 54.94
Rank: 90
Among people born in Austria, Joy Adamson ranks 455 out of 1,237. Before 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).
1940 - 2002
HPI: 55.44
Rank: 449
1821 - 1847
HPI: 55.43
Rank: 450
1485 - 1553
HPI: 55.43
Rank: 451
1740 - 1825
HPI: 55.38
Rank: 452
1638 - 1701
HPI: 55.37
Rank: 453
1964 - Present
HPI: 55.36
Rank: 454
1910 - 1980
HPI: 55.36
Rank: 455
1892 - 1984
HPI: 55.28
Rank: 456
1768 - 1839
HPI: 55.25
Rank: 457
1931 - Present
HPI: 55.23
Rank: 458
1859 - 1942
HPI: 55.21
Rank: 459
1532 - 1590
HPI: 55.20
Rank: 460
1804 - 1871
HPI: 55.20
Rank: 461
Among biologists born in Austria, Joy Adamson ranks 5. Before 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).
1868 - 1943
HPI: 73.99
Rank: 1
1903 - 1989
HPI: 73.95
Rank: 2
1886 - 1982
HPI: 66.64
Rank: 3
1901 - 1972
HPI: 61.11
Rank: 4
1910 - 1980
HPI: 55.36
Rank: 5
1871 - 1962
HPI: 54.48
Rank: 6
1875 - 1946
HPI: 54.19
Rank: 7
1874 - 1929
HPI: 51.70
Rank: 8
1802 - 1884
HPI: 50.56
Rank: 9
1735 - 1805
HPI: 50.17
Rank: 10
1800 - 1870
HPI: 48.27
Rank: 11
1727 - 1806
HPI: 48.25
Rank: 12