Biologist

William Carey

English Baptist missionary and a Particular Baptist minister

1761 - 1834

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His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2024). William Carey is the 207th most popular biologist (down from 142nd in 2024), the 1,126th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 824th in 2019) and the 37th 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.

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William Carey's Wikipedia page drew 140k views over the past year, 3.7× the average among Biologists.

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Among Biologists

Among biologists, William Carey ranks 207 out of 1,121. Before him are César Milstein, Ludwig Reichenbach, Wilhelm Johannsen, George C. Williams, Hans Driesch, and George Wald. After him are Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart, Olaus Rudbeck, Gregory Goodwin Pincus, Nikolay Pirogov, Stephan Endlicher, and Johann Matthäus Bechstein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1761, William Carey ranks 9. Before him are Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly, Marie Tussaud, Christiaan Hendrik Persoon, Jan Potocki, Jean-Charles Pichegru, and August von Kotzebue. After him are Philippe Buonarroti, Georg I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Smithson Tennant, José, Prince of Brazil, Princess Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt, and Sineperver Sultan. Among people deceased in 1834, William Carey ranks 13. Before him are Samuel Taylor Coleridge, François-Adrien Boieldieu, Alois Senefelder, Fath-Ali Shah Qajar, Karl Ludwig Harding, and Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh. After him are Jacques Balmat, Husein Gradaščević, Infanta Maria Francisca of Braganza, Éleuthère Irénée du Pont, William Wirt, and William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Carey ranks 1,126 out of 9,870. Before him are Melanie C (1974), Roy Harper (1941), Mike Newell (1942), John Gray (1948), Dave Mackay (1934), and George Gilbert Scott (1811). After him are John Tenniel (1820), Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk (1484), George Vancouver (1757), Princess Maud, Countess of Southesk (1893), Philippa of England (1394), and Arthur Drewry (1891).

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Among Biologists In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, William Carey ranks 37. Before him are Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817), John Ray (1627), George Robert Gray (1808), Anna Atkins (1799), Julian Huxley (1887), and Joseph Banks (1743). After him are Oldfield Thomas (1858), J. B. S. Haldane (1892), Thomas Browne (1605), John Lindley (1799), William Aiton (1731), and Charles Bell (1774).

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