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 651,404 page views. Her biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Joy Adamson is the 266th most popular biologist (down from 250th in 2019), the 458th most popular biography from Austria (down from 404th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Austrian Biologist.
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Among biologists, Joy Adamson ranks 266 out of 844. Before her are Waldemar Haffkine, Johann Friedrich von Brandt, Wilder Penfield, Francisco Varela, Otto Friedrich Müller, and Alexander Georg von Bunge. After her are Emil Christian Hansen, Henri Milne-Edwards, August Grisebach, Carl Correns, Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti, and Wilhelm Peters.
1860 - 1930
HPI: 65.21
Rank: 260
1802 - 1879
HPI: 65.18
Rank: 261
1891 - 1976
HPI: 65.18
Rank: 262
1946 - 2001
HPI: 65.12
Rank: 263
1730 - 1784
HPI: 65.10
Rank: 264
1803 - 1890
HPI: 65.09
Rank: 265
1910 - 1980
HPI: 65.08
Rank: 266
1842 - 1909
HPI: 65.08
Rank: 267
1800 - 1885
HPI: 65.07
Rank: 268
1814 - 1879
HPI: 65.04
Rank: 269
1864 - 1933
HPI: 65.04
Rank: 270
1735 - 1805
HPI: 65.03
Rank: 271
1815 - 1883
HPI: 64.98
Rank: 272
Among people born in 1910, Joy Adamson ranks 99. Before her are Howlin' Wolf, Sylvester Stadler, Helene Mayer, Hideo Shinojima, Giulietta Simionato, and Scatman Crothers. After her are Magda Olivero, Trygve Bratteli, Félix Candela, Artie Shaw, Bernard Voorhoof, and Fritz Leiber. Among people deceased in 1980, Joy Adamson ranks 90. Before her are Shigemaru Takenokoshi, Olga Chekhova, Farrokhroo Parsa, Dixie Dean, Lil Dagover, and Gabriel González Videla. After her are Josias Braun-Blanquet, Mohammed Rafi, Alexander Mach, Hiroshi Inagaki, Celia Sánchez, and Barbara O'Neil.
1910 - 1976
HPI: 65.14
Rank: 93
1910 - 1995
HPI: 65.14
Rank: 94
1910 - 1953
HPI: 65.14
Rank: 95
1910 - 1975
HPI: 65.13
Rank: 96
1910 - 2010
HPI: 65.09
Rank: 97
1910 - 1986
HPI: 65.09
Rank: 98
1910 - 1980
HPI: 65.08
Rank: 99
1910 - 2014
HPI: 65.07
Rank: 100
1910 - 1984
HPI: 65.06
Rank: 101
1910 - 1997
HPI: 64.90
Rank: 102
1910 - 2004
HPI: 64.86
Rank: 103
1910 - 1974
HPI: 64.84
Rank: 104
1910 - 1992
HPI: 64.81
Rank: 105
1906 - 1980
HPI: 65.87
Rank: 84
1897 - 1980
HPI: 65.81
Rank: 85
1922 - 1980
HPI: 65.67
Rank: 86
1907 - 1980
HPI: 65.26
Rank: 87
1887 - 1980
HPI: 65.24
Rank: 88
1898 - 1980
HPI: 65.11
Rank: 89
1910 - 1980
HPI: 65.08
Rank: 90
1884 - 1980
HPI: 64.87
Rank: 91
1924 - 1980
HPI: 64.81
Rank: 92
1902 - 1980
HPI: 64.78
Rank: 93
1905 - 1980
HPI: 64.76
Rank: 94
1920 - 1980
HPI: 64.69
Rank: 95
1910 - 1980
HPI: 64.68
Rank: 96
Among people born in Austria, Joy Adamson ranks 458 out of 1,075. Before her are Sylvester Stadler (1910), Solomiya Krushelnytska (1872), Leopold Auenbrugger (1722), Archduke Maximilian Eugen of Austria (1895), Ilse Aichinger (1921), and Prince René of Bourbon-Parma (1894). After her are Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg (1638), Aurel Vlaicu (1882), Philipp Frank (1884), Ernst Krenek (1900), Guido Starhemberg (1657), and Infanta Alicia, Duchess of Calabria (1917).
1910 - 1995
HPI: 65.14
Rank: 452
1872 - 1952
HPI: 65.13
Rank: 453
1722 - 1809
HPI: 65.12
Rank: 454
1895 - 1952
HPI: 65.10
Rank: 455
1921 - 2016
HPI: 65.09
Rank: 456
1894 - 1962
HPI: 65.08
Rank: 457
1910 - 1980
HPI: 65.08
Rank: 458
1638 - 1701
HPI: 65.08
Rank: 459
1882 - 1913
HPI: 65.06
Rank: 460
1884 - 1966
HPI: 65.06
Rank: 461
1900 - 1991
HPI: 65.06
Rank: 462
1657 - 1737
HPI: 65.05
Rank: 463
1917 - 2017
HPI: 65.04
Rank: 464
Among biologists born in Austria, Joy Adamson ranks 5. Before her are Konrad Lorenz (1903), Karl Landsteiner (1868), Karl von Frisch (1886), and Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1901). After her are Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti (1735), Othenio Abel (1875), Erich von Tschermak (1871), Leopold Fitzinger (1802), Clemens von Pirquet (1874), Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás (1877), and Josef August Schultes (1773).
1903 - 1989
HPI: 81.10
Rank: 1
1868 - 1943
HPI: 80.37
Rank: 2
1886 - 1982
HPI: 75.81
Rank: 3
1901 - 1972
HPI: 70.46
Rank: 4
1910 - 1980
HPI: 65.08
Rank: 5
1735 - 1805
HPI: 65.03
Rank: 6
1875 - 1946
HPI: 64.36
Rank: 7
1871 - 1962
HPI: 64.22
Rank: 8
1802 - 1884
HPI: 63.81
Rank: 9
1874 - 1929
HPI: 62.36
Rank: 10
1877 - 1933
HPI: 61.85
Rank: 11
1773 - 1831
HPI: 61.29
Rank: 12