1817 - 1893
Richard Spruce (10 September 1817 – 28 December 1893) was an English botanist specializing in bryology. One of the great Victorian botanical explorers, Spruce spent 15 years exploring the Amazon from the Andes to its mouth, and was one of the first Europeans to visit many of the places where he collected specimens. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Spruce has received more than 48,899 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Richard Spruce is the 780th most popular biologist (down from 691st in 2019).
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Among biologists, Richard Spruce ranks 780 out of 841. Before him are Robert May, Baron May of Oxford, Thomas Thomson, Richard Anthony Salisbury, Bunzō Hayata, Nikolai Turczaninow, and Grigore Antipa. After him are Yang Zhongjian, Sereno Watson, Félix de Avelar Brotero, Charles Conrad Abbott, Judah Folkman, and Nikolay Timofeev-Ressovsky.
1936 - 2020
HPI: 45.19
Rank: 774
1817 - 1878
HPI: 45.17
Rank: 775
1761 - 1829
HPI: 45.14
Rank: 776
1874 - 1934
HPI: 45.10
Rank: 777
1796 - 1863
HPI: 45.08
Rank: 778
1867 - 1944
HPI: 45.08
Rank: 779
1817 - 1893
HPI: 45.02
Rank: 780
1897 - 1979
HPI: 44.98
Rank: 781
1826 - 1892
HPI: 44.97
Rank: 782
1744 - 1828
HPI: 44.94
Rank: 783
1843 - 1919
HPI: 44.89
Rank: 784
1933 - 2008
HPI: 44.87
Rank: 785
1900 - 1981
HPI: 44.87
Rank: 786
Among people born in 1817, Richard Spruce ranks 74. Before him are Ramón de Campoamor y Campoosorio, José Mármol, Palladius, George Holyoake, Christen Andreas Fonnesbech, and Thomas Thomson. After him are Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès, Alfred Francis Russell, Manuel Robles Pezuela, Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen, and Benjamin Jowett. Among people deceased in 1893, Richard Spruce ranks 71. Before him are John O. Westwood, Constantin von Wurzbach, Benjamin Butler, Aleksey Pleshcheyev, James G. Blaine, and Edwin Booth. After him are Hamilton Fish, Ion Emanuel Florescu, John Rae, Aleksandra Potanina, Edmund Kirby Smith, and John Ballance.
1817 - 1901
HPI: 46.40
Rank: 68
1817 - 1871
HPI: 45.88
Rank: 69
1817 - 1878
HPI: 45.84
Rank: 70
1817 - 1906
HPI: 45.44
Rank: 71
1817 - 1880
HPI: 45.36
Rank: 72
1817 - 1878
HPI: 45.17
Rank: 73
1817 - 1893
HPI: 45.02
Rank: 74
1817 - 1880
HPI: 44.74
Rank: 75
1817 - 1884
HPI: 42.91
Rank: 76
1817 - 1862
HPI: 42.60
Rank: 77
1817 - 1885
HPI: 40.59
Rank: 78
1817 - 1893
HPI: 35.64
Rank: 79
1805 - 1893
HPI: 46.01
Rank: 65
1818 - 1893
HPI: 45.93
Rank: 66
1818 - 1893
HPI: 45.66
Rank: 67
1825 - 1893
HPI: 45.60
Rank: 68
1830 - 1893
HPI: 45.52
Rank: 69
1833 - 1893
HPI: 45.38
Rank: 70
1817 - 1893
HPI: 45.02
Rank: 71
1808 - 1893
HPI: 44.42
Rank: 72
1819 - 1893
HPI: 44.32
Rank: 73
1813 - 1893
HPI: 43.71
Rank: 74
1843 - 1893
HPI: 43.12
Rank: 75
1824 - 1893
HPI: 42.47
Rank: 76
1839 - 1893
HPI: 40.97
Rank: 77