1710 - 1790
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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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.
1815 - 1865
HPI: 52.74
Rank: 361
1776 - 1847
HPI: 52.71
Rank: 362
100 - Present
HPI: 52.71
Rank: 363
1499 - 1568
HPI: 52.69
Rank: 364
1813 - 1865
HPI: 52.67
Rank: 365
100 - 100
HPI: 52.64
Rank: 366
1710 - 1790
HPI: 52.62
Rank: 367
1822 - 1902
HPI: 52.61
Rank: 368
1898 - 1969
HPI: 52.52
Rank: 369
1833 - 1892
HPI: 52.48
Rank: 370
1515 - 1588
HPI: 52.48
Rank: 371
1794 - 1867
HPI: 52.43
Rank: 372
1949 - Present
HPI: 52.39
Rank: 373
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.
1710 - 1761
HPI: 57.13
Rank: 9
1710 - 1790
HPI: 56.66
Rank: 10
1710 - 1790
HPI: 56.14
Rank: 11
1710 - 1778
HPI: 55.98
Rank: 12
1710 - 1751
HPI: 54.12
Rank: 13
1710 - 1789
HPI: 53.50
Rank: 14
1710 - 1790
HPI: 52.62
Rank: 15
1710 - 1776
HPI: 52.61
Rank: 16
1710 - 1790
HPI: 52.40
Rank: 17
1710 - 1772
HPI: 52.00
Rank: 18
1710 - 1777
HPI: 51.57
Rank: 19
1710 - 1784
HPI: 51.50
Rank: 20
1710 - 1767
HPI: 50.77
Rank: 21
1723 - 1790
HPI: 57.23
Rank: 8
1710 - 1790
HPI: 56.66
Rank: 9
1710 - 1790
HPI: 56.14
Rank: 10
1713 - 1790
HPI: 55.04
Rank: 11
1718 - 1790
HPI: 54.36
Rank: 12
1725 - 1790
HPI: 54.04
Rank: 13
1710 - 1790
HPI: 52.62
Rank: 14
1710 - 1790
HPI: 52.40
Rank: 15
1722 - 1790
HPI: 52.04
Rank: 16
1701 - 1790
HPI: 50.43
Rank: 17
1723 - 1790
HPI: 48.09
Rank: 18
1745 - 1790
HPI: 47.12
Rank: 19
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).
1846 - 1924
HPI: 52.65
Rank: 2,043
1905 - 1990
HPI: 52.63
Rank: 2,044
1937 - Present
HPI: 52.63
Rank: 2,045
1925 - 2011
HPI: 52.63
Rank: 2,046
1809 - 1903
HPI: 52.62
Rank: 2,047
1949 - Present
HPI: 52.62
Rank: 2,048
1710 - 1790
HPI: 52.62
Rank: 2,049
1909 - 2006
HPI: 52.62
Rank: 2,050
1967 - Present
HPI: 52.62
Rank: 2,051
1926 - 2011
HPI: 52.62
Rank: 2,052
1950 - Present
HPI: 52.60
Rank: 2,053
1915 - 2001
HPI: 52.58
Rank: 2,054
1866 - 1938
HPI: 52.58
Rank: 2,055
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).
1928 - 2014
HPI: 55.86
Rank: 22
1728 - 1793
HPI: 55.66
Rank: 23
1780 - 1826
HPI: 55.42
Rank: 24
1918 - 2005
HPI: 55.41
Rank: 25
1827 - 1861
HPI: 55.41
Rank: 26
1836 - 1917
HPI: 53.67
Rank: 27
1710 - 1790
HPI: 52.62
Rank: 28
1860 - 1924
HPI: 51.78
Rank: 29
1740 - 1837
HPI: 51.23
Rank: 30
1795 - 1860
HPI: 51.02
Rank: 31
1816 - 1890
HPI: 50.92
Rank: 32
1762 - 1829
HPI: 50.54
Rank: 33
1510 - 1568
HPI: 50.38
Rank: 34