1880 - 1958
Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes (15 October 1880 – 2 October 1958) was a British author, palaeobotanist and campaigner for eugenics and women's rights. She made significant contributions to plant paleontology and coal classification, and was the first female academic on the faculty of the University of Manchester. With her second husband, Humphrey Verdon Roe, Stopes founded the first birth control clinic in Britain. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marie Stopes has received more than 915,988 page views. Her biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Marie Stopes is the 280th most popular biologist (up from 413th in 2019), the 1,720th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,188th in 2019) and the 41st most popular British Biologist.
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Among biologists, Marie Stopes ranks 280 out of 841. Before her are Carl Hagenbeck, Arthur Tansley, Thomas Cavalier-Smith, Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart, Jacob Christian Schäffer, and Alexander von Middendorff. After her are Johann Bauhin, Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, Johann Friedrich von Brandt, Vladimir Demikhov, Pierre Edmond Boissier, and Wilhelm Peters.
1844 - 1913
HPI: 54.43
Rank: 274
1871 - 1955
HPI: 54.43
Rank: 275
1942 - 2021
HPI: 54.43
Rank: 276
1801 - 1876
HPI: 54.39
Rank: 277
1718 - 1790
HPI: 54.36
Rank: 278
1815 - 1894
HPI: 54.36
Rank: 279
1880 - 1958
HPI: 54.35
Rank: 280
1541 - 1613
HPI: 54.34
Rank: 281
1794 - 1868
HPI: 54.34
Rank: 282
1802 - 1879
HPI: 54.32
Rank: 283
1916 - 1998
HPI: 54.31
Rank: 284
1810 - 1885
HPI: 54.28
Rank: 285
1815 - 1883
HPI: 54.23
Rank: 286
Among people born in 1880, Marie Stopes ranks 79. Before her are Ivar Kreuger, Hermann von Keyserling, Eric Campbell, Jan Kubelík, Arnold Gesell, and Sholem Asch. After her are Carl Van Vechten, Leon Rupnik, Waldemar Bonsels, Kōdō Sawaki, Archie Hahn, and Mihail Sadoveanu. Among people deceased in 1958, Marie Stopes ranks 59. Before her are 'Abd al-Ilah, Princess Joséphine Caroline of Belgium, Claire Lee Chennault, Ivan Yefimovich Petrov, Johannes R. Becher, and Ernest Jones. After her are Pierre-Étienne Flandin, Stuart Lewis-Evans, José Miaja, Rudolf Rocker, Grigory Petrovsky, and Princess Adelgunde of Bavaria.
1880 - 1932
HPI: 55.00
Rank: 73
1880 - 1946
HPI: 54.76
Rank: 74
1880 - 1917
HPI: 54.64
Rank: 75
1880 - 1940
HPI: 54.53
Rank: 76
1880 - 1961
HPI: 54.52
Rank: 77
1880 - 1957
HPI: 54.43
Rank: 78
1880 - 1958
HPI: 54.35
Rank: 79
1880 - 1964
HPI: 53.99
Rank: 80
1880 - 1946
HPI: 53.93
Rank: 81
1880 - 1952
HPI: 53.93
Rank: 82
1880 - 1965
HPI: 53.92
Rank: 83
1880 - 1955
HPI: 53.74
Rank: 84
1880 - 1961
HPI: 53.71
Rank: 85
1913 - 1958
HPI: 55.79
Rank: 53
1872 - 1958
HPI: 55.39
Rank: 54
1890 - 1958
HPI: 55.24
Rank: 55
1896 - 1958
HPI: 55.17
Rank: 56
1891 - 1958
HPI: 54.81
Rank: 57
1879 - 1958
HPI: 54.47
Rank: 58
1880 - 1958
HPI: 54.35
Rank: 59
1889 - 1958
HPI: 54.27
Rank: 60
1930 - 1958
HPI: 54.24
Rank: 61
1878 - 1958
HPI: 54.08
Rank: 62
1873 - 1958
HPI: 54.04
Rank: 63
1878 - 1958
HPI: 53.97
Rank: 64
1870 - 1958
HPI: 53.85
Rank: 65
Among people born in United Kingdom, Marie Stopes ranks 1,720 out of 7,765. Before her are Miranda Richardson (1958), Phil Jones (1992), Geoff Hurst (1941), James Finlayson (1887), Richard Aldington (1892), and Peter Vaughan (1923). After her are Robert Morrison (1782), J. Lee Thompson (1914), Dixie Dean (1907), Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom (1768), Rick Parfitt (1948), and John Watson (1946).
1958 - Present
HPI: 54.36
Rank: 1,714
1992 - Present
HPI: 54.36
Rank: 1,715
1941 - Present
HPI: 54.36
Rank: 1,716
1887 - 1953
HPI: 54.35
Rank: 1,717
1892 - 1962
HPI: 54.35
Rank: 1,718
1923 - 2016
HPI: 54.35
Rank: 1,719
1880 - 1958
HPI: 54.35
Rank: 1,720
1782 - 1834
HPI: 54.33
Rank: 1,721
1914 - 2002
HPI: 54.32
Rank: 1,722
1907 - 1980
HPI: 54.31
Rank: 1,723
1768 - 1840
HPI: 54.30
Rank: 1,724
1948 - 2016
HPI: 54.28
Rank: 1,725
1946 - Present
HPI: 54.27
Rank: 1,726
Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Marie Stopes ranks 41. Before her are George Shaw (1751), Rupert Sheldrake (1942), James Edward Smith (1759), June Almeida (1930), Arthur Tansley (1871), and Thomas Cavalier-Smith (1942). After her are John Hughlings Jackson (1835), John Gould (1804), Jack W. Szostak (1952), Richard Henderson (1945), George Robert Gray (1808), and Patrick Geddes (1854).
1751 - 1813
HPI: 55.24
Rank: 35
1942 - Present
HPI: 55.16
Rank: 36
1759 - 1828
HPI: 55.10
Rank: 37
1930 - 2007
HPI: 54.55
Rank: 38
1871 - 1955
HPI: 54.43
Rank: 39
1942 - 2021
HPI: 54.43
Rank: 40
1880 - 1958
HPI: 54.35
Rank: 41
1835 - 1911
HPI: 54.20
Rank: 42
1804 - 1881
HPI: 54.12
Rank: 43
1952 - Present
HPI: 54.09
Rank: 44
1945 - Present
HPI: 53.56
Rank: 45
1808 - 1872
HPI: 53.49
Rank: 46
1854 - 1932
HPI: 53.44
Rank: 47