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Mungo Park

1771 - 1806

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Mungo Park (11 September 1771 – 1806) was a Scottish explorer of West Africa. After an exploration of the upper Niger River around 1796, he wrote a popular and influential travel book titled Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa in which he theorized the Niger and Congo merged to become the same river, though it was later proven that they are different rivers. He was killed during a second expedition, having successfully travelled about two-thirds of the way down the Niger. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mungo Park has received more than 23,987 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia. Mungo Park is the 212th most popular physician (down from 140th in 2019), the 1,074th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 763rd in 2019) and the 15th most popular British Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Mungo Park ranks 212 out of 726. Before him are Li Shizhen, David H. Hubel, Thomas Willis, Ernst-Günther Schenck, Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis, and August Oetker. After him are Adolf Eugen Fick, Fritz Klein, Soranus of Ephesus, Thomas Bartholin, Franciscus Sylvius, and Pietro Andrea Mattioli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1771, Mungo Park ranks 14. Before him are Princess Louise Auguste of Denmark, Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg, Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, Alois Senefelder, Marie François Xavier Bichat, and Laskarina Bouboulina. After him are Jean-Andoche Junot, Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim, Mikhail Miloradovich, Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Duke Alexander of Württemberg, and Éleuthère Irénée du Pont. Among people deceased in 1806, Mungo Park ranks 21. Before him are Claude Nicolas Ledoux, Nicolas Leblanc, Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, Princess Maria Antonia of Naples and Sicily, and Michel Adanson. After him are Mathurin Jacques Brisson, Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, Pavel Tsitsianov, Shah Alam II, Vicente Martín y Soler, and Prince Francis Xavier of Saxony.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Mungo Park ranks 1,074 out of 8,785. Before him are Nicko McBrain (1952), Dave Gahan (1962), Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872), W. O. Bentley (1888), Bob Hope (1903), and Ian Wilmut (1944). After him are Edmund Leighton (1852), William Henry Perkin (1838), Jane Hawking (1944), Chris Patten (1944), Godwin, Earl of Wessex (1001), and Paul Grice (1913).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among physicians born in United Kingdom, Mungo Park ranks 15. Before him are James Black (1924), John Langdon Down (1828), Frederick Griffith (1879), Alan Hodgkin (1914), Hans Sloane (1660), and Thomas Willis (1621). After him are James Lind (1716), John Hunter (1728), Edward Bach (1886), Cicely Saunders (1918), Thomas Hodgkin (1798), and Thomas Addison (1793).

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