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William Cullen

1710 - 1790

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William Cullen (; 15 April 1710 – 5 February 1790) was a Scottish physician, chemist and agriculturalist, and professor at the Edinburgh Medical School. Cullen was a central figure in the Scottish Enlightenment: He was David Hume's physician, and was friends with Joseph Black, Henry Home, Adam Ferguson, John Millar, and Adam Smith, among others. He was President of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow (1746–47), President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (1773–1775) and First Physician to the King in Scotland (1773–1790). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Cullen has received more than 251,711 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. William Cullen is the 367th most popular physician (down from 264th in 2019), the 2,049th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,473rd in 2019) and the 28th most popular British Physician.

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  • 22

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, William Cullen ranks 367 out of 502. Before him are Robert Remak, Karl Friedrich Burdach, Rufus of Ephesus, Garcia de Orta, Adolph Kolping, and Scribonius Largus. After him are Adolf Kussmaul, Warren Sturgis McCulloch, Theodor Meynert, Giorgio Biandrata, Jean Pierre Flourens, and Peter C. Gøtzsche.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1710, William Cullen ranks 15. Before him are Thomas Simpson, András Hadik, Mohammed ben Abdallah, Thomas Arne, Louise Julie de Mailly-Nesle, and Paolo Renier. After him are John Ellis, Johann II Bernoulli, Augustin Ehrensvärd, Princess Amalia of Nassau-Dietz, Abraham Trembley, and Princess Luise Dorothea of Saxe-Meiningen. Among people deceased in 1790, William Cullen ranks 14. Before him are Johann Bernhard Basedow, András Hadik, Mohammed ben Abdallah, Cezayirli Gazi Hasan Pasha, Jacob Christian Schäffer, and Maria Teresa Cybo-Malaspina, Duchess of Massa. After him are Johann II Bernoulli, Flora MacDonald, Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim, William Livingston, and Prince Henry, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Cullen ranks 2,049 out of 7,765. Before him are F. H. Bradley (1846), Michael Powell (1905), Gordon Milne (1937), Michael Dummett (1925), James Glaisher (1809), and Paul Nurse (1949). After him are W. Montgomery Watt (1909), Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (1967), Jimmy Savile (1926), Mike Rutherford (1950), Ken Aston (1915), and Ernest William Brown (1866).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among physicians born in United Kingdom, William Cullen ranks 28. Before him are Lorna Wing (1928), John Hunter (1728), Clarke Abel (1780), Cicely Saunders (1918), Henry Gray (1827), and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836). After him are William Bayliss (1860), John Latham (1740), James Braid (1795), William Gull (1816), Francis Buchanan-Hamilton (1762), and William Turner (1510).

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