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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 269,640 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). William Cullen is the 322nd most popular physician (up from 367th in 2019), the 1,734th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,044th in 2019) and the 26th most popular British Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, William Cullen ranks 322 out of 726. Before him are Masawaiyh, Friedrich von Berchtold, Lorna Wing, Friedrich Hoffmann, Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser, and Ferdinand Sauerbruch. After him are Dorothea Erxleben, Howard Florey, James Curtis Hepburn, Willi Graf, Clarke Abel, and Carlos Finlay.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1710, William Cullen ranks 14. Before him are Thomas Simpson, Mohammed ben Abdallah, Marie-Anne de Cupis de Camargo, Domenico Alberti, Thomas Arne, and Louise Julie de Mailly-Nesle. After him are Abraham Trembley, Paolo Renier, Princess Luise Dorothea of Saxe-Meiningen, Princess Amalia of Nassau-Dietz, Johann II Bernoulli, and Carl Alexander Clerck. Among people deceased in 1790, William Cullen ranks 13. Before him are Johann Bernhard Basedow, András Hadik, Louis IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, Mohammed ben Abdallah, Cezayirli Gazi Hasan Pasha, and Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim. After him are Jacob Christian Schäffer, Johann II Bernoulli, Maria Teresa Cybo-Malaspina, Duchess of Massa, William Livingston, Prince Henry, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn, and Marmaduke Tunstall.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Cullen ranks 1,734 out of 8,785. Before him are Kingsley Amis (1922), Dido (1971), Patrick Head (1946), Kathleen Ferrier (1912), Edward Low (1690), and Frederic W. H. Myers (1843). After him are Terry Eagleton (1943), Gordon Ramsay (1966), David Gill (1843), Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland (1640), Steven Runciman (1903), and Anthony Quayle (1913).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among physicians born in United Kingdom, William Cullen ranks 26. Before him are Thomas Hodgkin (1798), Thomas Addison (1793), Henry Gray (1827), Thomas Sydenham (1624), John Latham (1740), and Lorna Wing (1928). After him are Clarke Abel (1780), James Braid (1795), Robert Darwin (1766), Sir William Bowman, 1st Baronet (1816), William Bayliss (1860), and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836).

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