BIOLOGIST

Sydney Parkinson

1745 - 1771

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Sydney Parkinson (c. 1745 – 26 January 1771) was a Scottish botanical illustrator and natural history artist. He was the first European artist to visit Australia, New Zealand and Tahiti. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sydney Parkinson has received more than 88,326 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Sydney Parkinson is the 832nd most popular biologist (up from 900th in 2019), the 4,061st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,870th in 2019) and the 116th most popular British Biologist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 88k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.41

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.08

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.59

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Sydney Parkinson ranks 832 out of 1,097. Before him are John Jacob Abel, Joseph Rock, Paul Henri Lecomte, Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers, Herbert Giles, and Max Fürbringer. After him are Eduard von Martens, Johan Wilhelm Zetterstedt, Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet, Zinaida Yermolyeva, Judah Folkman, and Edmund Reitter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1745, Sydney Parkinson ranks 48. Before him are Timothy Pickering, Hannah More, Johann Gottfried Köhler, Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, Oliver Ellsworth, and John Jeffries. After him are Madhavrao I, Anthony Wayne, William Paterson, Richard Bassett, Samuel Hearne, and Caleb Strong. Among people deceased in 1771, Sydney Parkinson ranks 22. Before him are Dmitry Laptev, William Fermor, Augustus George, Margrave of Baden-Baden, Infanta Maria Doroteia of Portugal, Konrad Ernst Ackermann, and Jan Klemens Branicki. After him is Christopher Smart.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Sydney Parkinson ranks 4,061 out of 8,785. Before him are Rachel Portman (1960), Edward John Eyre (1815), Acker Bilk (1929), Bernard Cribbins (1928), John Sykes (1959), and Paddy Considine (1973). After him are George Back (1796), Charles Montagu Doughty (1843), Grace Chisholm Young (1868), Martin O'Neill (1952), Daniel Tammet (1979), and Henry Home, Lord Kames (1696).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Sydney Parkinson ranks 116. Before him are William Townsend Aiton (1766), Alec Jeffreys (1950), Thomas Thomson (1817), George Edwards (1694), William Hemsley (1843), and Herbert Giles (1845). After him are Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet (1800), William John Burchell (1781), D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860), Richard Anthony Salisbury (1761), Anne McLaren (1927), and Daniel Oliver (1830).

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