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Sophia Jex-Blake

1840 - 1912

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Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake (21 January 1840 – 7 January 1912) was an English physician, teacher, and feminist. She led the campaign to secure women access to a university education, when six other women and she, collectively known as the Edinburgh Seven, began studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh in 1869. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sophia Jex-Blake has received more than 157,204 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Sophia Jex-Blake is the 573rd most popular physician (down from 493rd in 2019), the 4,282nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,711th in 2019) and the 53rd most popular British Physician.

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  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.88

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  • 3.37

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Sophia Jex-Blake ranks 573 out of 502. Before her are Eugène Olivier, Cecilia Grierson, John Ostrom, James Ewing, Priscilla Chan, and Lucille Teasdale-Corti. After her are William C. Gorgas, Denton Cooley, George E. P. Box, Jill Stein, Richard Friedrich Johannes Pfeiffer, and Robert Spitzer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1840, Sophia Jex-Blake ranks 85. Before her are Juan Bautista Gill, Ghazaros Aghayan, John Philip Holland, Jakub Arbes, Charles Booth, and Isabella Stewart Gardner. After her are Richard Knill Freeman, Adolf Bernhard Meyer, and John Stainer. Among people deceased in 1912, Sophia Jex-Blake ranks 112. Before her are Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg, Cesare Arzelà, Henry Robertson Bowers, Björn Jónsson, Anton Aškerc, and Edward Wilmot Blyden. After her are Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Luis Cordero Crespo, Henri Bouckaert, Emil Stang, Albino Jara, and Thomas Pollock Anshutz.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Sophia Jex-Blake ranks 4,282 out of 7,765. Before her are George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland (1784), Owain Yeoman (1978), Grantley Goulding (1874), Tony Adams (1966), Toby Kebbell (1982), and James Whitbread Lee Glaisher (1848). After her are Richard Ashcroft (1971), Henry Macintosh (1892), Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875), Tony Jay (1933), Donald Nicol (1923), and John Martyn (1948).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among physicians born in United Kingdom, Sophia Jex-Blake ranks 53. Before her are Frederick Twort (1877), Sir John Pringle, 1st Baronet (1707), William Stukeley (1687), John Arbuthnot (1667), Astley Cooper (1768), and Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet (1783). After her are George E. P. Box (1919), Richard Doll (1912), Ran Laurie (1915), Mary Putnam Jacobi (1842), Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer (1850), and William Hewson (1739).

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