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Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

1788 - 1856

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Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet FRSE (8 March 1788 – 6 May 1856) was a Scottish metaphysician. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet has received more than 154,787 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet is the 1,081st most popular philosopher (down from 988th in 2019), the 3,078th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,817th in 2019) and the 69th most popular British Philosopher.

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  • 2.65

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet ranks 1,081 out of 1,267. Before him are Paul Kurtz, Heymann Steinthal, P. C. Chang, Adolf Grünbaum, Mario Tronti, and Amina Wadud. After him are Josef Pieper, Barrington Moore Jr., Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski, Richard Posner, Ladislav Klíma, and Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1788, Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet ranks 49. Before him are Spyridon Trikoupis, Princess Juliane Sophie of Denmark, Edward Sabine, Kikuchi Yōsai, Margaret Taylor, and Gheorghe Asachi. After him are Mikhail Shchepkin, Adoniram Judson, Károly Kisfaludy, Edwin Atherstone, Hugh Clapperton, and Charles Robert Cockerell. Among people deceased in 1856, Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet ranks 44. Before him are Carl, 3rd Prince of Leiningen, Ninomiya Sontoku, Agostino Bassi, Jovan Sterija Popović, Henry Pottinger, and Josef Kajetán Tyl. After him are Michel Félix Dunal, Ivan Kireyevsky, Johan August Wahlberg, Joseph Meyer, Frederick William Beechey, and John M. Clayton.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet ranks 3,078 out of 8,785. Before him are Pamela Colman Smith (1878), Rhona Mitra (1976), Sam Smith (1992), Alicia Markova (1910), Anna Russell (1807), and John Stott (1921). After him are Ernest Renshaw (1861), Peter Sinfield (1943), Ian Stuart Donaldson (1957), Reynold A. Nicholson (1868), Martin Barre (1946), and Frederick Grace (1884).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In United Kingdom

Among philosophers born in United Kingdom, Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet ranks 69. Before him are Thomas Arnold (1795), Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (1678), John Hick (1922), R. M. Hare (1919), Damaris Cudworth Masham (1659), and Michael Oakeshott (1901). After him are Carole Pateman (1940), Walter Burley (1275), W. D. Ross (1877), Hector Boece (1465), Ralph Cudworth (1617), and Mark Fisher (1968).

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