1517 - 1564
Pierre Belon (1517–1564) was a French traveller, naturalist, writer and diplomat. Like many others of the Renaissance period, he studied and wrote on a range of topics including ichthyology, ornithology, botany, comparative anatomy, architecture and Egyptology. He is sometimes known as Pierre Belon du Mans, or, in the Latin in which his works appeared, as Petrus Bellonius Cenomanus. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pierre Belon has received more than 80,309 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Pierre Belon is the 216th most popular biologist (up from 246th in 2019), the 1,973rd most popular biography from France (up from 2,127th in 2019) and the 27th most popular French Biologist.
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Among biologists, Pierre Belon ranks 216 out of 841. Before him are David Baltimore, Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich, Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, Georges J. F. Köhler, Willi Hennig, and Thomas Browne. After him are Michael Rosbash, Bernard Germain de Lacépède, Michael W. Young, Erik Acharius, Carl Ludwig Willdenow, and Adolf Engler.
1938 - Present
HPI: 56.55
Rank: 210
1806 - 1886
HPI: 56.53
Rank: 211
1916 - 2010
HPI: 56.53
Rank: 212
1946 - 1995
HPI: 56.45
Rank: 213
1913 - 1976
HPI: 56.35
Rank: 214
1605 - 1682
HPI: 56.32
Rank: 215
1517 - 1564
HPI: 56.29
Rank: 216
1944 - Present
HPI: 56.25
Rank: 217
1756 - 1825
HPI: 56.14
Rank: 218
1949 - Present
HPI: 56.13
Rank: 219
1757 - 1819
HPI: 56.06
Rank: 220
1765 - 1812
HPI: 56.02
Rank: 221
1844 - 1930
HPI: 55.97
Rank: 222
Among people born in 1517, Pierre Belon ranks 8. Before him are Emperor Ōgimachi, Gioseffo Zarlino, Francis I, Duke of Lorraine, Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, Li Shizhen, and Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk. After him are Rembert Dodoens, Peter Ernst I von Mansfeld-Vorderort, Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk, and Jacques Pelletier du Mans. Among people deceased in 1564, Pierre Belon ranks 5. Before him are Michelangelo, John Calvin, Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, and Andreas Vesalius. After him are Rani Durgavati, Charles Estienne, Theodore Bibliander, Giovanni da Udine, and Maurice Scève.
1517 - 1593
HPI: 61.94
Rank: 2
1517 - 1590
HPI: 60.83
Rank: 3
1517 - 1545
HPI: 60.48
Rank: 4
1517 - 1586
HPI: 59.03
Rank: 5
1517 - 1593
HPI: 58.33
Rank: 6
1517 - 1559
HPI: 58.26
Rank: 7
1517 - 1564
HPI: 56.29
Rank: 8
1517 - 1585
HPI: 55.05
Rank: 9
1517 - 1604
HPI: 53.58
Rank: 10
1517 - 1554
HPI: 52.09
Rank: 11
1517 - 1583
HPI: 49.27
Rank: 12
1475 - 1564
HPI: 91.26
Rank: 1
1509 - 1564
HPI: 83.38
Rank: 2
1503 - 1564
HPI: 78.90
Rank: 3
1514 - 1564
HPI: 77.59
Rank: 4
1517 - 1564
HPI: 56.29
Rank: 5
1524 - 1564
HPI: 55.34
Rank: 6
1504 - 1564
HPI: 51.77
Rank: 7
1500 - 1564
HPI: 51.29
Rank: 8
1487 - 1564
HPI: 50.12
Rank: 9
1501 - 1564
HPI: 49.75
Rank: 10
Among people born in France, Pierre Belon ranks 1,973 out of 6,011. Before him are Louis-Michel van Loo (1707), Léon Brillouin (1889), Marie-Christine Barrault (1944), Nicholas Romanov, Prince of Russia (1922), Henri Grégoire (1750), and Guy de Rothschild (1909). After him are Yann Arthus-Bertrand (1946), Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay (1712), Jean-Pierre Beltoise (1937), Peter II of Courtenay (1155), Louis-Joseph de Montcalm (1712), and Édouard Séguin (1812).
1707 - 1771
HPI: 56.32
Rank: 1,967
1889 - 1969
HPI: 56.31
Rank: 1,968
1944 - Present
HPI: 56.30
Rank: 1,969
1922 - 2014
HPI: 56.30
Rank: 1,970
1750 - 1831
HPI: 56.30
Rank: 1,971
1909 - 2007
HPI: 56.29
Rank: 1,972
1517 - 1564
HPI: 56.29
Rank: 1,973
1946 - Present
HPI: 56.29
Rank: 1,974
1712 - 1759
HPI: 56.28
Rank: 1,975
1937 - 2015
HPI: 56.28
Rank: 1,976
1155 - 1219
HPI: 56.27
Rank: 1,977
1712 - 1759
HPI: 56.27
Rank: 1,978
1812 - 1880
HPI: 56.27
Rank: 1,979
Among biologists born in France, Pierre Belon ranks 27. Before him are Aimé Bonpland (1773), Emmanuelle Charpentier (1968), Antoine Béchamp (1816), Michel Adanson (1727), Pierre André Latreille (1762), and Jérôme Lejeune (1926). After him are Bernard Germain de Lacépède (1756), Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot (1748), Félix d'Herelle (1873), Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest (1784), Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle (1806), and Johann Hermann (1738).
1773 - 1858
HPI: 60.26
Rank: 21
1968 - Present
HPI: 59.87
Rank: 22
1816 - 1908
HPI: 58.32
Rank: 23
1727 - 1806
HPI: 57.29
Rank: 24
1762 - 1833
HPI: 57.08
Rank: 25
1926 - 1994
HPI: 56.66
Rank: 26
1517 - 1564
HPI: 56.29
Rank: 27
1756 - 1825
HPI: 56.14
Rank: 28
1748 - 1831
HPI: 55.71
Rank: 29
1873 - 1949
HPI: 55.28
Rank: 30
1784 - 1838
HPI: 55.11
Rank: 31
1806 - 1893
HPI: 55.07
Rank: 32
1738 - 1800
HPI: 54.96
Rank: 33