BIOLOGIST

Salim Ali

1896 - 1987

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Sálim Moizuddin Abdul Ali (12 November 1896 – 20 June 1987) was an Indian ornithologist and naturalist. Sometimes referred to as the "Birdman of India", Salim Ali was the first Indian to conduct systematic bird surveys across India and wrote several bird books that popularized ornithology in India. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Salim Ali has received more than 1,613,722 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Salim Ali is the 280th most popular biologist (down from 190th in 2019), the 264th most popular biography from India (down from 181st in 2019) and the most popular Indian Biologist.

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  • 30

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  • 3.60

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Salim Ali ranks 280 out of 1,097. Before him are Jérôme Lejeune, Jack W. Szostak, John Maynard Smith, Guillaume-Antoine Olivier, René Louiche Desfontaines, and George Bentham. After him are Wilhelm Peters, Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, David Baltimore, Johann Georg Christian Lehmann, Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville, and Martin Vahl.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Salim Ali ranks 96. Before him are Mir Jafar Baghirov, Faina Ranevskaya, Rudolf Schmundt, Zygmunt Berling, Princess Maria Bona of Savoy-Genoa, and Carl Zuckmayer. After him are Henry Allingham, D. R. Bendre, He Long, Prince Roman Petrovich of Russia, Hans Cramer, and Pierre Jeanneret. Among people deceased in 1987, Salim Ali ranks 79. Before him are Randolph Scott, Geraldine Page, Mervyn LeRoy, Herbert Blumer, Otto Wöhler, and Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover. After him are Nobuhito, Prince Takamatsu, Asim Ferhatović, Masatoshi Nakayama, Yasuo Haruyama, Anatoli Papanov, and Lorne Greene.

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In India

Among people born in India, Salim Ali ranks 264 out of 1,861. Before him are Kalpana Chawla (1961), Vandana Shiva (1952), Guru Amar Das (1479), Zakir Naik (1965), Mahinda (-285), and Akbar II (1760). After him are D. R. Bendre (1896), M. Night Shyamalan (1970), Sridevi (1963), Swaminarayan (1781), Merle Oberon (1911), and Tilopa (928).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In India

Among biologists born in India, Salim Ali ranks 1. After him are Janaki Ammal (1897), Robert Swinhoe (1836), Akhtar Hameed Khan (1914), and Sunetra Gupta (1965).

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