BIOLOGIST

William Carey

1761 - 1834

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William Carey (17 August 1761 – 9 June 1834) was an English Christian missionary, Particular Baptist minister, translator, social reformer and cultural anthropologist who founded the Serampore College and the Serampore University, the first degree-awarding university in India.He went to Calcutta (Kolkata) in 1793, but was forced to leave the British Indian territory by non-Baptist Christian missionaries. He joined the Baptist missionaries in the Danish colony of Frederiksnagore in Serampore. One of his first contributions was to start schools for impoverished children where they were taught reading, writing, accounting and Christianity. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Carey has received more than 47,853 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). William Carey is the 142nd most popular biologist (down from 93rd in 2019), the 824th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 693rd in 2019) and the 21st most popular British Biologist.

William Carey is most famous for being the father of modern missions. He was a British Baptist missionary to India, and he was the first person to translate the Bible into an Indian language.

Memorability Metrics

  • 48k

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  • 61.02

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.05

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.61

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year William Carey has had the most page views in the with 21,571 views, followed by Bengali (18,005), and Portuguese (13,502). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Latin (591.04%), Catalan (72.97%), and Telugu (55.67%)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, William Carey ranks 142 out of 1,097. Before him are Gerald Edelman, Tomas Lindahl, John Ray, Carl Peter Thunberg, Hamilton O. Smith, and Mario Capecchi. After him are J. Michael Bishop, William Bateson, Emmanuelle Charpentier, Jan Svatopluk Presl, Walther Flemming, and Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1761, William Carey ranks 7. Before him are Pope Pius VIII, Selim III, Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly, Marie Tussaud, Jan Potocki, and Christiaan Hendrik Persoon. After him are August von Kotzebue, Philippe Buonarroti, Jean-Charles Pichegru, Sineperver Sultan, Louis-Léopold Boilly, and Antoine Barnave. Among people deceased in 1834, William Carey ranks 10. Before him are Friedrich Schleiermacher, Joseph Marie Jacquard, Sunjo of Joseon, Fath-Ali Shah Qajar, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Alois Senefelder. After him are François-Adrien Boieldieu, Husein Gradaščević, Jacques Balmat, Karl Ludwig Harding, Infanta Maria Francisca of Braganza, and Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Carey ranks 824 out of 8,785. Before him are John Berger (1926), Kim Cattrall (1956), Dylan Thomas (1914), Edward Kelley (1555), Macbeth, King of Scotland (1005), and E. M. Forster (1879). After him are Edward Whymper (1840), Peter Cushing (1913), H. L. A. Hart (1907), Derek Jacobi (1938), Mairead Maguire (1944), and Godfrey Hounsfield (1919).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, William Carey ranks 21. Before him are Philip Sclater (1829), Oliver Smithies (1925), Julian Huxley (1887), John Gurdon (1933), Charles Scott Sherrington (1952), and John Ray (1627). After him are William Bateson (1861), Martin Evans (1941), John Boyd Orr (1880), Anna Atkins (1799), George Robert Gray (1808), and Ian Wilmut (1944).

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