1779 - 1869
Peter Mark Roget (UK: US: ; 18 January 1779 – 12 September 1869) was a British physician, natural theologian, lexicographer, and founding secretary of The Portico Library. He is best known for publishing, in 1852, the Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases, a classified collection of related words (thesaurus). Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Mark Roget has received more than 219,627 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Peter Mark Roget is the 652nd most popular physicist (down from 598th in 2019), the 3,795th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,255th in 2019) and the 75th most popular British Physicist.
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Among physicists, Peter Mark Roget ranks 652 out of 717. Before him are Nikolay Umov, Tom Kibble, Bruno Zumino, Shoichi Sakata, Leona Woods, and Aleksandr Andronov. After him are Lisa Randall, Gregory Breit, Hedwig Kohn, John Aitken, George F. R. Ellis, and Valentine Telegdi.
1846 - 1915
HPI: 45.58
Rank: 646
1932 - 2016
HPI: 45.55
Rank: 647
1923 - 2014
HPI: 45.55
Rank: 648
1911 - 1970
HPI: 45.51
Rank: 649
1919 - 1986
HPI: 45.49
Rank: 650
1901 - 1952
HPI: 45.47
Rank: 651
1779 - 1869
HPI: 45.44
Rank: 652
1962 - Present
HPI: 45.43
Rank: 653
1899 - 1981
HPI: 45.42
Rank: 654
1887 - 1964
HPI: 45.33
Rank: 655
1839 - 1919
HPI: 45.27
Rank: 656
1939 - Present
HPI: 45.26
Rank: 657
1922 - 2006
HPI: 45.18
Rank: 658
Among people born in 1779, Peter Mark Roget ranks 33. Before him are Tabitha Babbitt, Augustin Saint-Hilaire, Mountstuart Elphinstone, Washington Allston, Louis de Freycinet, and Joel Roberts Poinsett. After him are Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough, Stephen Decatur, Zebulon Pike, Joseph Story, and Samuel D. Ingham. Among people deceased in 1869, Peter Mark Roget ranks 49. Before him are Pyotr Pavlovich Yershov, George Peabody, Alexander Dreyschock, Mary Ward, Pyotr Anjou, and Edwin Stanton. After him are Henry Jarvis Raymond, Michael Sars, Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough, Diomidis Kyriakos, Thomas Hodgskin, and Charles Sturt.
1779 - 1853
HPI: 48.51
Rank: 27
1779 - 1853
HPI: 47.86
Rank: 28
1779 - 1859
HPI: 47.68
Rank: 29
1779 - 1843
HPI: 47.08
Rank: 30
1779 - 1841
HPI: 46.66
Rank: 31
1779 - 1851
HPI: 46.62
Rank: 32
1779 - 1869
HPI: 45.44
Rank: 33
1779 - 1869
HPI: 44.16
Rank: 34
1779 - 1820
HPI: 43.48
Rank: 35
1779 - 1813
HPI: 40.35
Rank: 36
1779 - 1845
HPI: 38.53
Rank: 37
1779 - 1860
HPI: 35.19
Rank: 38
1815 - 1869
HPI: 47.98
Rank: 43
1795 - 1869
HPI: 47.86
Rank: 44
1818 - 1869
HPI: 47.43
Rank: 45
1827 - 1869
HPI: 47.05
Rank: 46
1796 - 1869
HPI: 46.26
Rank: 47
1814 - 1869
HPI: 46.20
Rank: 48
1779 - 1869
HPI: 45.44
Rank: 49
1820 - 1869
HPI: 44.55
Rank: 50
1805 - 1869
HPI: 44.44
Rank: 51
1779 - 1869
HPI: 44.16
Rank: 52
1811 - 1869
HPI: 43.83
Rank: 53
1787 - 1869
HPI: 43.07
Rank: 54
1795 - 1869
HPI: 42.87
Rank: 55
Among people born in United Kingdom, Peter Mark Roget ranks 3,795 out of 7,765. Before him are Timothy West (1934), Steven Moffat (1961), Sadie Frost (1965), George Holyoake (1817), Cadwallon ap Cadfan (591), and Tom Hooper (1972). After him are Ernest Payne (1884), Howard Marks (1945), Phil Neville (1977), Clara Reeve (1729), Charles Montagu Doughty (1843), and Beatrice Tinsley (1941).
1934 - Present
HPI: 45.45
Rank: 3,789
1961 - Present
HPI: 45.45
Rank: 3,790
1965 - Present
HPI: 45.44
Rank: 3,791
1817 - 1906
HPI: 45.44
Rank: 3,792
591 - 634
HPI: 45.44
Rank: 3,793
1972 - Present
HPI: 45.44
Rank: 3,794
1779 - 1869
HPI: 45.44
Rank: 3,795
1884 - 1961
HPI: 45.43
Rank: 3,796
1945 - 2016
HPI: 45.43
Rank: 3,797
1977 - Present
HPI: 45.43
Rank: 3,798
1729 - 1807
HPI: 45.43
Rank: 3,799
1843 - 1926
HPI: 45.43
Rank: 3,800
1941 - 1981
HPI: 45.42
Rank: 3,801
Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Peter Mark Roget ranks 75. Before him are John Lennard-Jones (1894), William Astbury (1898), Ralph H. Fowler (1889), John Polkinghorne (1930), John Hopkinson (1849), and Alfred Ewing (1855). After him are John Aitken (1839), Brandon Carter (1942), Julian Barbour (1937), Bernard Lovell (1913), Ronald Drever (1931), and John Pendry (1943).
1894 - 1954
HPI: 47.60
Rank: 69
1898 - 1961
HPI: 47.46
Rank: 70
1889 - 1944
HPI: 47.07
Rank: 71
1930 - 2021
HPI: 46.80
Rank: 72
1849 - 1898
HPI: 46.60
Rank: 73
1855 - 1935
HPI: 46.36
Rank: 74
1779 - 1869
HPI: 45.44
Rank: 75
1839 - 1919
HPI: 45.27
Rank: 76
1942 - Present
HPI: 44.98
Rank: 77
1937 - Present
HPI: 44.88
Rank: 78
1913 - 2012
HPI: 44.55
Rank: 79
1931 - 2017
HPI: 41.86
Rank: 80
1943 - Present
HPI: 41.85
Rank: 81