1794 - 1849
René Primevère Lesson (20 March 1794 – 28 April 1849) was a French surgeon, naturalist, ornithologist, and herpetologist. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of René Lesson has received more than 54,380 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia. René Lesson is the 264th most popular biologist (down from 216th in 2019), the 2,380th most popular biography from France (down from 1,943rd in 2019) and the 34th most popular French Biologist.
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Among biologists, René Lesson ranks 264 out of 841. Before him are Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart, Johann Hermann, Eduard Rüppell, Wilder Penfield, Alexander Georg von Bunge, and Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle. After him are Stephan Endlicher, Clair Cameron Patterson, Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville, June Almeida, Fritz Müller, and Alain Bombard.
1742 - 1795
HPI: 54.98
Rank: 258
1738 - 1800
HPI: 54.96
Rank: 259
1794 - 1884
HPI: 54.93
Rank: 260
1891 - 1976
HPI: 54.74
Rank: 261
1803 - 1890
HPI: 54.70
Rank: 262
1809 - 1885
HPI: 54.65
Rank: 263
1794 - 1849
HPI: 54.64
Rank: 264
1804 - 1849
HPI: 54.63
Rank: 265
1922 - 1995
HPI: 54.63
Rank: 266
1777 - 1850
HPI: 54.56
Rank: 267
1930 - 2007
HPI: 54.55
Rank: 268
1822 - 1897
HPI: 54.55
Rank: 269
1924 - 2005
HPI: 54.53
Rank: 270
Among people born in 1794, René Lesson ranks 18. Before him are Ami Boué, Léon Cogniet, Eduard Rüppell, Friedrich Christian Diez, Leopold IV, Duke of Anhalt, and Jacques Collin de Plancy. After him are Eilhard Mitscherlich, Ernst I, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, Mirza Shafi Vazeh, Pyotr Chaadayev, and Johann Heinrich von Mädler. Among people deceased in 1849, René Lesson ranks 32. Before him are Delphine LaLaurie, Dionisio Aguado y García, Grand Duchess Alexandra Alexandrovna of Russia, Quatremère de Quincy, Thomas Robert Bugeaud, and Archduke Ferdinand Karl Viktor of Austria-Este. After him are Stephan Endlicher, Angelica Catalani, Duchess Maria Elisabeth in Bavaria, Jacques-Laurent Agasse, Carlo Rossi, and Conradin Kreutzer.
1794 - 1881
HPI: 55.83
Rank: 12
1794 - 1880
HPI: 55.27
Rank: 13
1794 - 1884
HPI: 54.93
Rank: 14
1794 - 1876
HPI: 54.90
Rank: 15
1794 - 1871
HPI: 54.75
Rank: 16
1794 - 1881
HPI: 54.70
Rank: 17
1794 - 1849
HPI: 54.64
Rank: 18
1794 - 1863
HPI: 54.46
Rank: 19
1794 - 1860
HPI: 54.36
Rank: 20
1794 - 1868
HPI: 54.34
Rank: 21
1794 - 1852
HPI: 54.26
Rank: 22
1794 - 1856
HPI: 54.08
Rank: 23
1794 - 1874
HPI: 53.85
Rank: 24
1787 - 1849
HPI: 56.31
Rank: 26
1784 - 1849
HPI: 56.12
Rank: 27
1842 - 1849
HPI: 55.42
Rank: 28
1755 - 1849
HPI: 55.15
Rank: 29
1784 - 1849
HPI: 55.11
Rank: 30
1821 - 1849
HPI: 54.71
Rank: 31
1794 - 1849
HPI: 54.64
Rank: 32
1804 - 1849
HPI: 54.63
Rank: 33
1780 - 1849
HPI: 54.12
Rank: 34
1784 - 1849
HPI: 53.94
Rank: 35
1767 - 1849
HPI: 53.27
Rank: 36
1775 - 1849
HPI: 53.09
Rank: 37
1780 - 1849
HPI: 52.45
Rank: 38
Among people born in France, René Lesson ranks 2,380 out of 6,011. Before him are Eugène Fromentin (1820), Elena Poniatowska (1932), Jean Lefebvre (1919), Pierre Joseph Pelletier (1788), Yolanda of Courtenay (1197), and Georges Lautner (1926). After him are Édouard Branly (1844), Odo de St Amand (1110), Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois (1749), Anne Henriette of Bavaria (1648), Charles-Eugène Delaunay (1816), and Eugène Marin Labiche (1815).
1820 - 1876
HPI: 54.69
Rank: 2,374
1932 - Present
HPI: 54.68
Rank: 2,375
1919 - 2004
HPI: 54.67
Rank: 2,376
1788 - 1842
HPI: 54.66
Rank: 2,377
1197 - 1233
HPI: 54.66
Rank: 2,378
1926 - 2013
HPI: 54.65
Rank: 2,379
1794 - 1849
HPI: 54.64
Rank: 2,380
1844 - 1940
HPI: 54.64
Rank: 2,381
1110 - 1179
HPI: 54.63
Rank: 2,382
1749 - 1796
HPI: 54.63
Rank: 2,383
1648 - 1723
HPI: 54.63
Rank: 2,384
1816 - 1872
HPI: 54.63
Rank: 2,385
1815 - 1888
HPI: 54.62
Rank: 2,386
Among biologists born in France, René Lesson ranks 34. Before 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). After him are Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (1777), Alain Bombard (1924), Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart (1801), René Louiche Desfontaines (1750), Pierre Gaspard Chaumette (1763), and Charles Plumier (1646).
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
1794 - 1849
HPI: 54.64
Rank: 34
1777 - 1850
HPI: 54.56
Rank: 35
1924 - 2005
HPI: 54.53
Rank: 36
1801 - 1876
HPI: 54.39
Rank: 37
1750 - 1833
HPI: 54.17
Rank: 38
1763 - 1794
HPI: 53.69
Rank: 39
1646 - 1704
HPI: 53.63
Rank: 40