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Philip Miller

1691 - 1771

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Philip Miller FRS (1691 – 18 December 1771) was an English botanist and gardener of Scottish descent. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Philip Miller has received more than 165,102 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Philip Miller is the 79th most popular biologist (down from 76th in 2019), the 558th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 620th in 2019) and the 12th most popular British Biologist.

Philip Miller is most famous for his work on the classification of plants. He was a founding member of the Royal Society and was a professor at Oxford University.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Philip Miller ranks 79 out of 1,097. Before him are Max Theiler, Ernst Mayr, Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, Svante Pääbo, Dmitri Ivanovsky, and Bernard Katz. After him are Ibn al-Baitar, Elizabeth Blackburn, Archibald Hill, Charles Lucien Bonaparte, Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, and Werner Arber.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1691, Philip Miller ranks 2. Before him is Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. After him are Giovanni Paolo Panini, Tsarevna Catherine Ivanovna of Russia, Mir Jafar, Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, Francesco Feo, Edward Cave, Princess Dorothea Wilhelmine of Saxe-Zeitz, Wilhelm Heinrich, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach, Alessandro Galilei, and George Lillo. Among people deceased in 1771, Philip Miller ranks 3. Before him are Adolf Frederick, King of Sweden, and Claude Adrien Helvétius. After him are Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Henri Pitot, Louis-Michel van Loo, Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, Alexei Razumovsky, John Bevis, Frederick William, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt, and Tobias Smollett.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Philip Miller ranks 558 out of 8,785. Before him are Thomas Cranmer (1489), Christian Bale (1974), David II of Scotland (1324), Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet (1892), David J. Thouless (1934), and Benjamin Graham (1894). After him are Thomas Wolsey (1473), Bill Nighy (1949), Hugh Laurie (1959), James Parkinson (1755), Christopher Tolkien (1924), and Ronald George Wreyford Norrish (1897).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Philip Miller ranks 12. Before him are Thomas Henry Huxley (1825), Robert Brown (1773), Christian de Duve (1917), Richard Owen (1804), John Edward Gray (1800), and Robert Edwards (1925). After him are Archibald Hill (1886), Erasmus Darwin (1731), Philip Sclater (1829), Oliver Smithies (1925), Julian Huxley (1887), and John Gurdon (1933).

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