BIOLOGIST

Richard Meinertzhagen

1878 - 1967

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Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen, CBE, DSO (3 March 1878 – 17 June 1967) was a British soldier, intelligence officer, and ornithologist. He had a decorated military career spanning Africa and the Middle East. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Meinertzhagen has received more than 523,807 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Richard Meinertzhagen is the 962nd most popular biologist, the 4,875th most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 159th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Richard Meinertzhagen ranks 962 out of 1,097. Before him are Charles Sibley, Edward Lhuyd, Ivan Lepyokhin, Édouard Louis Trouessart, Janet Rowley, and John Hutton Balfour. After him are Aimée Antoinette Camus, João Barbosa Rodrigues, Alexander Wetmore, Alexander Wendt, James Chapin, and John Lawrence LeConte.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Richard Meinertzhagen ranks 224. Before him are Harold Hackett, Flora Drummond, Albert Corey, Peder Kolstad, Peter Kemp, and Herbert H. Lehman. After him are Charles Hefferon, Elvia Carrillo Puerto, Gyula Kakas, Katie Johnson, Léon Binoche, and Oscar Apfel. Among people deceased in 1967, Richard Meinertzhagen ranks 252. Before him are John Masefield, Sigurd Moen, Harald Julin, Vladimir Sukachev, Simo Puupponen, and Nikolay Okhlopkov. After him are Malcolm Sargent, Edward Givens, Romildo Etcheverry, Reginald Denny, Lewis H. Brereton, and Robert Daniel Carmichael.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Richard Meinertzhagen ranks 4,875 out of 8,785. Before him are Taylor Wane (1968), The Proclaimers (1962), Leeroy Thornhill (1968), John Hutton Balfour (1808), Philippa Pearce (1920), and Diana Wynyard (1906). After him are Chris Dreja (1945), Richard K. Guy (1916), James Oglethorpe (1696), Malcolm Sargent (1895), Colin Greenwood (1969), and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Richard Meinertzhagen ranks 159. Before him are Hugh Edwin Strickland (1811), Alister Hardy (1896), Maxwell T. Masters (1833), William T. Stearn (1911), Edward Lhuyd (1660), and John Hutton Balfour (1808). After him are Archibald Menzies (1754), Sarah Gilbert (1962), Gilbert White (1720), Hugh Huxley (1924), Lancelot Hogben (1895), and David Douglas (1799).

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