BIOLOGIST

Robert Swinhoe

1836 - 1877

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Robert Swinhoe FRS (1 September 1836 – 28 October 1877) was an English diplomat and naturalist who worked as a Consul in Taiwan (then known to Westerners as Formosa). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Swinhoe has received more than 67,207 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Swinhoe is the 666th most popular biologist (down from 589th in 2019), the 569th most popular biography from India (down from 476th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Indian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Robert Swinhoe ranks 666 out of 1,097. Before him are Mary-Claire King, Walter Sutton, David Starr Jordan, Eduard Oscar Schmidt, Jinzō Matsumura, and Amotz Zahavi. After him are Japetus Steenstrup, Samuel Garman, William Roxburgh, Bernard Heuvelmans, Johann Amman, and Reginald Punnett.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1836, Robert Swinhoe ranks 63. Before him are Ernst von Bergmann, Georg August Schweinfurth, Bret Harte, Michał Elwiro Andriolli, Émile Étienne Guimet, and Emil Hartmann. After him are John W. Foster, W. S. Gilbert, Ferdinand Monoyer, Harry Rosenbusch, Isabella Beeton, and Greene Vardiman Black. Among people deceased in 1877, Robert Swinhoe ranks 53. Before him are Duke Eugen of Württemberg, Jung Bahadur Rana, Georg Adolf Erman, Janko Matúška, Alexander Bain, and Julius Rietz. After him are Juan Bautista Gill, Johann Carl Fuhlrott, Alexander Brullov, Ramón Cabrera, 1st Duke of Maestrazgo, Rómulo Díaz de la Vega, and Karel Sabina.

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In India

Among people born in India, Robert Swinhoe ranks 569 out of 1,861. Before him are Shivakumara Swami (1907), Mohammad Hamid Ansari (1937), Dawood Ibrahim (1955), Rahul Gandhi (1970), Bidhan Chandra Roy (1882), and Manna Dey (1919). After him are Arjun Appadurai (1949), Kamala Surayya (1934), Jayakanthan (1934), Sushma Swaraj (1952), Roshan Seth (1942), and Naseeruddin Shah (1949).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In India

Among biologists born in India, Robert Swinhoe ranks 3. Before him are Salim Ali (1896), and Janaki Ammal (1897). After him are Akhtar Hameed Khan (1914), and Sunetra Gupta (1965).

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