1732 - 1807
Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande (French: [lalɑ̃d]; 11 July 1732 – 4 April 1807) was a French astronomer, freemason and writer. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jérôme Lalande has received more than 112,941 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Jérôme Lalande is the 51st most popular astronomer (down from 49th in 2019), the 850th most popular biography from France (down from 845th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular French Astronomer.
Jérôme Lalande is most famous for his discovery of the first periodic comet, which he named after himself.
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Among astronomers, Jérôme Lalande ranks 51 out of 531. Before him are James Bradley, Asaph Hall, Fritz Zwicky, Clyde Tombaugh, Ferdinand Verbiest, and Johann Palisa. After him are Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille, Pieter van Musschenbroek, Varāhamihira, John Flamsteed, Pierre Méchain, and Girolamo Fracastoro.
1693 - 1762
HPI: 64.32
Rank: 45
1829 - 1907
HPI: 64.25
Rank: 46
1898 - 1974
HPI: 63.78
Rank: 47
1906 - 1997
HPI: 63.75
Rank: 48
1623 - 1688
HPI: 63.74
Rank: 49
1848 - 1925
HPI: 63.56
Rank: 50
1732 - 1807
HPI: 63.38
Rank: 51
1713 - 1762
HPI: 63.26
Rank: 52
1692 - 1761
HPI: 63.25
Rank: 53
505 - 587
HPI: 63.12
Rank: 54
1646 - 1719
HPI: 63.08
Rank: 55
1744 - 1804
HPI: 62.83
Rank: 56
1476 - 1553
HPI: 62.42
Rank: 57
Among people born in 1732, Jérôme Lalande ranks 9. Before him are Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Stanisław August Poniatowski, Pierre Beaumarchais, Jacques Necker, Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, and Richard Arkwright. After him are Abbas III, Adélaïde of France, Frederick II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg, Johann Christoph Adelung, John Dickinson, and Warren Hastings. Among people deceased in 1807, Jérôme Lalande ranks 4. Before him are Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily, Angelica Kauffman, and Pasquale Paoli. After him are Magtymguly Pyragy, Jeanne Baret, Henry Benedict Stuart, George Atwood, John Newton, Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Osman Pazvantoğlu, and Jacob Philipp Hackert.
1732 - 1806
HPI: 72.02
Rank: 3
1732 - 1798
HPI: 70.62
Rank: 4
1732 - 1799
HPI: 69.13
Rank: 5
1732 - 1804
HPI: 67.92
Rank: 6
1732 - 1795
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 7
1732 - 1792
HPI: 63.63
Rank: 8
1732 - 1807
HPI: 63.38
Rank: 9
1732 - 1740
HPI: 62.11
Rank: 10
1732 - 1800
HPI: 61.84
Rank: 11
1732 - 1797
HPI: 60.03
Rank: 12
1732 - 1806
HPI: 59.83
Rank: 13
1732 - 1808
HPI: 59.59
Rank: 14
1732 - 1818
HPI: 59.13
Rank: 15
1772 - 1807
HPI: 67.44
Rank: 1
1741 - 1807
HPI: 66.27
Rank: 2
1725 - 1807
HPI: 66.27
Rank: 3
1732 - 1807
HPI: 63.38
Rank: 4
1733 - 1807
HPI: 62.22
Rank: 5
1740 - 1807
HPI: 61.64
Rank: 6
1725 - 1807
HPI: 58.32
Rank: 7
1745 - 1807
HPI: 57.44
Rank: 8
1725 - 1807
HPI: 56.99
Rank: 9
1739 - 1807
HPI: 56.92
Rank: 10
1758 - 1807
HPI: 56.35
Rank: 11
1737 - 1807
HPI: 55.97
Rank: 12
Among people born in France, Jérôme Lalande ranks 850 out of 6,011. Before him are Sebastian Brant (1458), Guillaume de Nogaret (1260), Marcel Carné (1906), François Christophe de Kellermann (1735), Christina of Lorraine (1565), and Jules Ferry (1832). After him are Émile Borel (1871), Louis Néel (1904), Jacques Callot (1592), Balthus (1908), Ferdinand Cheval (1836), and Stéphane Audran (1932).
1458 - 1521
HPI: 63.46
Rank: 844
1260 - 1313
HPI: 63.45
Rank: 845
1906 - 1996
HPI: 63.44
Rank: 846
1735 - 1820
HPI: 63.42
Rank: 847
1565 - 1637
HPI: 63.41
Rank: 848
1832 - 1893
HPI: 63.41
Rank: 849
1732 - 1807
HPI: 63.38
Rank: 850
1871 - 1956
HPI: 63.38
Rank: 851
1904 - 2000
HPI: 63.36
Rank: 852
1592 - 1635
HPI: 63.35
Rank: 853
1908 - 2001
HPI: 63.34
Rank: 854
1836 - 1924
HPI: 63.34
Rank: 855
1932 - 2018
HPI: 63.33
Rank: 856
Among astronomers born in France, Jérôme Lalande ranks 2. Before him are Charles Messier (1730). After him are Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille (1713), Pierre Méchain (1744), Jacques Cassini (1677), Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580), Édouard Stephan (1837), Alphonse Borrelly (1842), Pierre Janssen (1824), Joseph-Nicolas Delisle (1688), Guillaume Bigourdan (1851), and Bernard Lyot (1897).
1730 - 1817
HPI: 67.99
Rank: 1
1732 - 1807
HPI: 63.38
Rank: 2
1713 - 1762
HPI: 63.26
Rank: 3
1744 - 1804
HPI: 62.83
Rank: 4
1677 - 1756
HPI: 62.28
Rank: 5
1580 - 1637
HPI: 59.80
Rank: 6
1837 - 1923
HPI: 58.20
Rank: 7
1842 - 1926
HPI: 56.96
Rank: 8
1824 - 1907
HPI: 56.73
Rank: 9
1688 - 1768
HPI: 56.71
Rank: 10
1851 - 1932
HPI: 56.19
Rank: 11
1897 - 1952
HPI: 56.06
Rank: 12