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Sir John Pringle, 1st Baronet

1707 - 1782

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Sir John Pringle, 1st Baronet (10 April 1707 – 18 January 1782) was a British physician who has been called the "father of military medicine" (although Ambroise Paré and Jonathan Letterman have also been accorded this sobriquet). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sir John Pringle, 1st Baronet has received more than 30,394 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Sir John Pringle, 1st Baronet is the 621st most popular physician (down from 513th in 2019), the 4,146th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,252nd in 2019) and the 56th most popular British Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Sir John Pringle, 1st Baronet ranks 621 out of 726Before her are Halfdan T. Mahler, Emily Blackwell, Richard Friedrich Johannes Pfeiffer, Vilma Hugonnai, Türkan Saylan, and Concepción Aleixandre. After her are Maurice Raynaud, Jill Stein, Peter Lesgaft, Fernando Quiroga Palacios, William C. Gorgas, and María Teresa Ferrari.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1707, Sir John Pringle, 1st Baronet ranks 19Before her are Ernest Frederick II, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, Johannes Burman, Johann Amman, Stephen Hopkins, and Benjamin Robins.  Among people deceased in 1782, Sir John Pringle, 1st Baronet ranks 35Before her are José Cadalso, Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau, Martha Jefferson, Karl Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Charles Lee, and Henry Home, Lord Kames. After her is Joseph Pickford.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Sir John Pringle, 1st Baronet ranks 4,146 out of 8,785Before her are Archie Stark (1897), William Kirby (1759), William Muir (1819), Ireen Sheer (1949), Roger Hargreaves (1935), and Herbert Baddeley (1872). After her are Mike Summerbee (1942), Thomas Phillips (1770), Daphne Oram (1925), John Marston (1576), John Milne (1850), and Steve Bruce (1960).

Among PHYSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among physicians born in United Kingdom, Sir John Pringle, 1st Baronet ranks 56Before her are John Arbuthnot (1667), William Stukeley (1687), Francis Buchanan-Hamilton (1762), Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet (1783), Astley Cooper (1768), and Emily Blackwell (1826). After her are Archie Cochrane (1909), George E. P. Box (1919), Thomas Lewis (1881), Almroth Wright (1861), Sophia Jex-Blake (1840), and Mary Putnam Jacobi (1842).