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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Carey has received more than 48,157 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). William Carey is the 94th most popular biologist (up from 121st in 2019), the 693rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 895th in 2019) and the 16th 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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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, William Carey ranks 94 out of 841. Before him are E. O. Wilson, André Michel Lwoff, John Gurdon, Werner Arber, Bernard Katz, and Ibn al-Baitar. After him are Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, Thomas Huckle Weller, Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin, Carl Peter Thunberg, Nikolay Pirogov, and Philip Sclater.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1761, William Carey ranks 5. Before him are Pope Pius VIII, Selim III, Marie Tussaud, and Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly. After him are Jan Potocki, Christiaan Hendrik Persoon, Jean-Charles Pichegru, August von Kotzebue, Philippe Buonarroti, Antoine Barnave, and Sineperver Sultan. Among people deceased in 1834, William Carey ranks 10. Before him are Friedrich Schleiermacher, Joseph Marie Jacquard, Sunjo of Joseon, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Fath-Ali Shah Qajar, and Alois Senefelder. After him are Karl Ludwig Harding, Husein Gradaščević, François-Adrien Boieldieu, Jacques Balmat, Infanta Maria Francisca of Braganza, and Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Carey ranks 693 out of 7,765. Before him are Sawney Bean (1600), Richard of Cornwall (1209), Chris Norman (1950), Jessica Tandy (1909), Eleanor Marx (1855), and Brian Eno (1948). After him are David Brewster (1781), Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (1853), Norman Angell (1872), Niels Kaj Jerne (1911), John McAfee (1945), and Jeremy Brett (1933).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, William Carey ranks 16. Before him are Robert Edwards (1925), Erasmus Darwin (1731), John Edward Gray (1800), Philip Miller (1691), Julian Huxley (1887), and John Gurdon (1933). After him are Philip Sclater (1829), John Ray (1627), Archibald Hill (1886), Oliver Smithies (1925), William Bateson (1861), and Martin Evans (1941).

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