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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 22,136 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia. Mungo Park is the 140th most popular physician (up from 217th in 2019), the 763rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,144th in 2019) and the 10th most popular British Physician.

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  • 47

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Mungo Park ranks 140 out of 502. Before him are Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Jens Christian Skou, Marie François Xavier Bichat, Robin Cook, Haldan Keffer Hartline, and Agnodice. After him are Ulf von Euler, Theodor Billroth, Georgios Papanikolaou, Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, Heo Jun, and Louis Ignarro.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1771, Mungo Park ranks 14. Before him are Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg, Princess Louise Auguste of Denmark, Alois Senefelder, Jean-Andoche Junot, and Marie François Xavier Bichat. After him are Laskarina Bouboulina, Ferdinando Paer, Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Duke Alexander of Württemberg, Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim, and Mikhail Miloradovich. Among people deceased in 1806, Mungo Park ranks 16. Before him are Michael Haydn, Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick, William Pitt the Younger, Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, Claude Nicolas Ledoux, and Pierre-Charles Villeneuve. After him are Nicolas Leblanc, Johann Christoph Adelung, Princess Maria Antonia of Naples and Sicily, Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, and Michel Adanson.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Mungo Park ranks 763 out of 7,765. Before him are George Darwin (1845), Amy Winehouse (1983), John Fowles (1926), David Coverdale (1951), Ronald Fisher (1890), and Philip Sclater (1829). After him are Edmund Cartwright (1743), Tim Roth (1961), John Ambrose Fleming (1849), Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby (1861), Kenny Dalglish (1951), and Charles Spurgeon (1834).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among physicians born in United Kingdom, Mungo Park ranks 10. Before him are James Parkinson (1755), Elizabeth Blackwell (1821), Edgar Adrian (1889), John Snow (1813), Niels Kaj Jerne (1911), and Frederick Griffith (1879). After him are John Langdon Down (1828), Alan Hodgkin (1914), Thomas Willis (1621), Hans Sloane (1660), James Black (1924), and James Lind (1716).

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