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Norman Bethune

1890 - 1939

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Henry Norman Bethune (; March 4, 1890 – November 12, 1939; Chinese: 白求恩; pinyin: Bái Qiú'ēn) was a Canadian thoracic surgeon, early advocate of socialized medicine, and member of the Communist Party of Canada. Bethune came to international prominence first for his service as a frontline trauma surgeon supporting the Republican government during the Spanish Civil War, and later supporting the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) Eighth Route Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Norman Bethune has received more than 929,240 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Norman Bethune is the 238th most popular physician (down from 210th in 2019), the 94th most popular biography from Canada (down from 72nd in 2019) and the 5th most popular Canadian Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Norman Bethune ranks 238 out of 726. Before him are Aletta Jacobs, Alessandro Achillini, James Lind, John Hunter, Vladimir Dal, and Hieronymus Fabricius. After him are Hans Berger, Ernst-Robert Grawitz, Randy Schekman, Marcel Petiot, Frederik Ruysch, and Caspar Friedrich Wolff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Norman Bethune ranks 70. Before him are Béla Miklós, Max Immelmann, Bacha Khan, Géza Lakatos, Augusta Victoria of Hohenzollern, and Grigory Kulik. After him are Zeki Velidi Togan, Edwin Howard Armstrong, Bechara El Khoury, Yoshio Nishina, Elpidio Quirino, and Seiichi Itō. Among people deceased in 1939, Norman Bethune ranks 41. Before him are Otto Wels, Roman Dmowski, Franz Schmidt, Isaac Carasso, Hans Langsdorff, and Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz. After him are Carl Laemmle, Wu Peifu, Vladimir Shukhov, Bruno Liljefors, Grigori Sokolnikov, and Armand Călinescu.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Norman Bethune ranks 94 out of 1,622. Before him are Martin Short (1950), Simon Newcomb (1835), Robbie Robertson (1943), Michael Ironside (1950), Marie-Louise Meilleur (1880), and Wayne Gretzky (1961). After him are Jack L. Warner (1892), Rudolph A. Marcus (1923), Norma Shearer (1902), Nathan Fillion (1971), Marc Ouellet (1944), and Louis Slotin (1910).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Canada

Among physicians born in Canada, Norman Bethune ranks 5. Before him are Frederick Banting (1891), Oswald Avery (1877), Charles Brenton Huggins (1901), and David H. Hubel (1926). After him are William Osler (1849), Frances Oldham Kelsey (1914), Édouard Gagnon (1918), Lucille Teasdale-Corti (1929), Maude Abbott (1868), James Heilman (1979), and Alaa Murabit (1989).

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