BIOLOGIST

Walter Buller

1838 - 1906

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Sir Walter Lawry Buller (9 October 1838 – 19 July 1906) was a New Zealand lawyer and naturalist who was a dominant figure in New Zealand ornithology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Walter Buller has received more than 33,147 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Walter Buller is the 1,025th most popular biologist (down from 874th in 2019), the 117th most popular biography from New Zealand (down from 79th in 2019) and the most popular New Zealander Biologist.

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  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.84

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.56

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Walter Buller ranks 1,025 out of 1,097. Before him are Edward William Nelson, Roger Revelle, Norman I. Platnick, Charles Sprague Sargent, Severn Cullis-Suzuki, and Albert Charles Smith. After him are Ilkka Hanski, Karl Shuker, David Prain, Elmer McCollum, Henry Weed Fowler, and Anthony R. Hunter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1838, Walter Buller ranks 104. Before him are Octavia Hill, John Wanamaker, Margaret E. Knight, Henry Hobson Richardson, Joseph F. Smith, and Shah Jahan Begum of Bhopal.  Among people deceased in 1906, Walter Buller ranks 78. Before him are Pedro Varela, Oscar Levertin, John Schofield, Mary Putnam Jacobi, George Holyoake, and Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts. After him are Richard Seddon, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Varina Davis, Eastman Johnson, and Michael Davitt.

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In New Zealand

Among people born in New Zealand, Walter Buller ranks 117 out of 303. Before him are Kerry Fox (1966), Jerry Mateparae (1954), Trevor Coker (1949), Keith Holyoake (1904), Jim Bolger (1935), and Georgina Beyer (1957). After him are Andrew Dominik (1967), John Walker (1952), Dudley Storey (1939), Mike Thackwell (1961), Simon Dickie (1951), and Archie Thompson (1978).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In New Zealand

Among biologists born in New Zealand, Walter Buller ranks 1. 

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