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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 59,165 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Swinhoe is the 590th most popular biologist (down from 566th in 2019), the 480th most popular biography from India (down from 408th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Indian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Robert Swinhoe ranks 590 out of 841Before him are Edmond de Sélys Longchamps, Franz Unger, Gerrit Smith Miller, Ignaz Schiffermüller, Fritz Schaudinn, and Marie Jules César Savigny. After him are Volcher Coiter, Shi Zhengli, Roberto de Visiani, John Isaac Briquet, Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold, and Friedrich Reinitzer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1836, Robert Swinhoe ranks 58Before him are Walery Antoni Wróblewski, Ernst von Bergmann, Norman Lockyer, Emil Hartmann, Bret Harte, and Ferdinand Monoyer. After him are Michał Elwiro Andriolli, Adolf Schwarz, Isabella Beeton, Jay Gould, W. S. Gilbert, and Casimir de Candolle. Among people deceased in 1877, Robert Swinhoe ranks 49Before him are Georg Adolf Erman, Janko Matúška, Nathaniel Palmer, Julius Rietz, Jung Bahadur Rana, and Johann Carl Fuhlrott. After him are Edward Belcher, Ramón Cabrera, 1st Duke of Maestrazgo, Louise Bertin, Errico Petrella, Alexander Brullov, and Karel Sabina.

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In India

Among people born in India, Robert Swinhoe ranks 480 out of 1,493Before him are Percy Hobart (1885), Sanjay Gandhi (1946), Frederick Lugard, 1st Baron Lugard (1858), Sharmila Tagore (1944), Kamini Roy (1864), and Vyjayanthimala Bali (1936). After him are Phoolan Devi (1963), Fatima Jinnah (1893), Islam Shah Suri (1510), Saadat Hasan Manto (1912), V. S. Ramachandran (1951), and Arjun Appadurai (1949).

Among BIOLOGISTS In India

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