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Léon Jean Marie Dufour

1780 - 1865

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Léon Jean Marie (or Jean-Marie Léon) Dufour (10 April 1780, Saint-Sever – 18 April 1865) was a French medical doctor and naturalist. Between 1799 and 1806 he studied medicine in Paris then returned to Saint-Sever in the Landes. He participated as an army doctor in the Peninsular War and returned to his birthplace at the end of the war. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Léon Jean Marie Dufour has received more than 15,132 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Léon Jean Marie Dufour is the 504th most popular physician (up from 531st in 2019), the 3,910th most popular biography from France (up from 4,101st in 2019) and the 50th most popular French Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Léon Jean Marie Dufour ranks 504 out of 726. Before him are Ernest Starling, Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer, Adolf Meyer, Benjamin Rush, Rebecca Guarna, and Friedrich Robert Faehlmann. After him are Frank H. Netter, Ugo Cerletti, Johann Gottlieb Gleditsch, Vivien Thomas, Kurt Blome, and Eugene Lazowski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1780, Léon Jean Marie Dufour ranks 42. Before him are Fulgencio Yegros, José Joaquín de Olmedo, Johann Friedrich Naumann, Henri Braconnot, Karoline von Günderrode, and Henry Salt. After him are Piet Retief, Elizabeth Fry, Antonie Brentano, Matvei Gedenshtrom, Jørgen Jørgensen, and Francisco Xavier de Luna Pizarro. Among people deceased in 1865, Léon Jean Marie Dufour ranks 57. Before him are Ángel de Saavedra, 3rd Duke of Rivas, Antonios Kriezis, Achille Valenciennes, Philippe Buchez, Mary Surratt, and Stephen Allen Benson. After him are Otto Ludwig, Kitsos Tzavelas, Nicholas Wiseman, Lewis Powell, Eugène Devéria, and Samuel Cunard.

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In France

Among people born in France, Léon Jean Marie Dufour ranks 3,910 out of 6,770. Before him are Jane Dieulafoy (1851), Marcel Moyse (1889), Abel Bonnard (1883), Émile Allais (1912), Bernard Cazeneuve (1963), and Lili Damita (1904). After him are Sibylle Riqueti de Mirabeau (1850), Albert Ayat (1875), Robert Herbin (1939), René Pottier (1879), Richard Berry (1950), and Joseph, Duke of Parma (1875).

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Among PHYSICIANS In France

Among physicians born in France, Léon Jean Marie Dufour ranks 50. Before him are Charles Estienne (1504), Adrien Proust (1834), Jean Guillaume Auguste Lugol (1786), Bernard de Jussieu (1699), Noël Martin Joseph de Necker (1730), and Guy Patin (1601). After him are Wladimir Aïtoff (1879), Pierre Marie (1853), Henri Dutrochet (1776), Louis-Antoine Ranvier (1835), Aemilia Hilaria (300), and Jean Cruveilhier (1791).

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