1605 - 1682
Sir Thomas Browne (; 19 October 1605 – 19 October 1682) was an English polymath and author of varied works which reveal his wide learning in diverse fields including science and medicine, religion and the esoteric. His writings display a deep curiosity towards the natural world, influenced by the Scientific Revolution of Baconian enquiry and are permeated by references to Classical and Biblical sources as well as the idiosyncrasies of his own personality. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas Browne has received more than 725,117 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Thomas Browne is the 215th most popular biologist (down from 203rd in 2019), the 1,375th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,273rd in 2019) and the 32nd most popular British Biologist.
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Among biologists, Thomas Browne ranks 215 out of 841. Before him are Adam Afzelius, David Baltimore, Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich, Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, Georges J. F. Köhler, and Willi Hennig. After him are Pierre Belon, Michael Rosbash, Bernard Germain de Lacépède, Michael W. Young, Erik Acharius, and Carl Ludwig Willdenow.
1750 - 1837
HPI: 56.58
Rank: 209
1938 - Present
HPI: 56.55
Rank: 210
1806 - 1886
HPI: 56.53
Rank: 211
1916 - 2010
HPI: 56.53
Rank: 212
1946 - 1995
HPI: 56.45
Rank: 213
1913 - 1976
HPI: 56.35
Rank: 214
1605 - 1682
HPI: 56.32
Rank: 215
1517 - 1564
HPI: 56.29
Rank: 216
1944 - Present
HPI: 56.25
Rank: 217
1756 - 1825
HPI: 56.14
Rank: 218
1949 - Present
HPI: 56.13
Rank: 219
1757 - 1819
HPI: 56.06
Rank: 220
1765 - 1812
HPI: 56.02
Rank: 221
Among people born in 1605, Thomas Browne ranks 13. Before him are Giacomo Carissimi, Adriaen Brouwer, Ayşe Sultan, Marie de Bourbon, Duchess of Montpensier, Semyon Dezhnev, and George II, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt. After him are Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, Simon Dach, Zhu Yuyue, Antonio Bertali, Ismaël Bullialdus, and Brynjólfur Sveinsson. Among people deceased in 1682, Thomas Browne ranks 12. Before him are Jacob van Ruisdael, Johann Joachim Becher, Jacob Kettler, Alessandro Stradella, Avvakum, and Baldassare Longhena. After him are Jean Picard, Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Gu Yanwu, Heo Mok, and Yohannes I.
1605 - 1674
HPI: 61.50
Rank: 7
1605 - 1638
HPI: 61.01
Rank: 8
1605 - 1660
HPI: 60.88
Rank: 9
1605 - 1627
HPI: 59.39
Rank: 10
1605 - 1673
HPI: 59.33
Rank: 11
1605 - 1661
HPI: 56.33
Rank: 12
1605 - 1682
HPI: 56.32
Rank: 13
1605 - 1689
HPI: 55.64
Rank: 14
1605 - 1659
HPI: 54.04
Rank: 15
1605 - 1647
HPI: 53.29
Rank: 16
1605 - 1669
HPI: 52.62
Rank: 17
1605 - 1694
HPI: 52.28
Rank: 18
1605 - 1675
HPI: 51.62
Rank: 19
1628 - 1682
HPI: 67.33
Rank: 6
1635 - 1682
HPI: 63.14
Rank: 7
1610 - 1682
HPI: 60.96
Rank: 8
1643 - 1682
HPI: 60.93
Rank: 9
1620 - 1682
HPI: 60.17
Rank: 10
1596 - 1682
HPI: 59.25
Rank: 11
1605 - 1682
HPI: 56.32
Rank: 12
1620 - 1682
HPI: 55.82
Rank: 13
1619 - 1682
HPI: 55.40
Rank: 14
1606 - 1682
HPI: 53.81
Rank: 15
1613 - 1682
HPI: 51.56
Rank: 16
1595 - 1682
HPI: 48.53
Rank: 17
1640 - 1682
HPI: 42.95
Rank: 18
Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas Browne ranks 1,375 out of 7,765. Before him are Edward Lear (1812), Dennis Nilsen (1945), Malcolm Lowry (1909), Thomas Sydenham (1624), Frank Lampard (1978), and Neville Marriner (1924). After him are Anthony Daniels (1946), Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone (1883), Robert Pattinson (1986), Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom (1770), Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837), and Martin Gore (1961).
1812 - 1888
HPI: 56.35
Rank: 1,369
1945 - 2018
HPI: 56.34
Rank: 1,370
1909 - 1957
HPI: 56.34
Rank: 1,371
1624 - 1689
HPI: 56.33
Rank: 1,372
1978 - Present
HPI: 56.32
Rank: 1,373
1924 - 2016
HPI: 56.32
Rank: 1,374
1605 - 1682
HPI: 56.32
Rank: 1,375
1946 - Present
HPI: 56.32
Rank: 1,376
1883 - 1981
HPI: 56.30
Rank: 1,377
1986 - Present
HPI: 56.30
Rank: 1,378
1770 - 1840
HPI: 56.30
Rank: 1,379
1837 - 1909
HPI: 56.29
Rank: 1,380
1961 - Present
HPI: 56.29
Rank: 1,381
Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Thomas Browne ranks 32. Before him are Michael Houghton (1949), J. B. S. Haldane (1892), Joseph Banks (1743), Charles Bell (1774), Henry Walter Bates (1825), and John Boyd Orr (1880). After him are John Lindley (1799), Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817), George Shaw (1751), Rupert Sheldrake (1942), James Edward Smith (1759), and June Almeida (1930).
1949 - Present
HPI: 58.70
Rank: 26
1892 - 1964
HPI: 58.29
Rank: 27
1743 - 1820
HPI: 58.08
Rank: 28
1774 - 1842
HPI: 57.75
Rank: 29
1825 - 1892
HPI: 57.63
Rank: 30
1880 - 1971
HPI: 56.92
Rank: 31
1605 - 1682
HPI: 56.32
Rank: 32
1799 - 1865
HPI: 55.72
Rank: 33
1817 - 1911
HPI: 55.34
Rank: 34
1751 - 1813
HPI: 55.24
Rank: 35
1942 - Present
HPI: 55.16
Rank: 36
1759 - 1828
HPI: 55.10
Rank: 37
1930 - 2007
HPI: 54.55
Rank: 38