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William Hunter

1718 - 1783

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William Hunter (23 May 1718 – 30 March 1783) was a Scottish anatomist and physician. He was a leading teacher of anatomy, and the outstanding obstetrician of his day. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Hunter has received more than 16,816 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 17 in 2019). William Hunter is the 464th most popular physician (down from 398th in 2019), the 2,781st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,380th in 2019) and the 40th most popular British Physician.

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  • 16

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  • 4.53

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  • 2.27

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, William Hunter ranks 464 out of 502Before him are Heinrich Rudolf Schinz, Louis-Antoine Ranvier, Henri Dutrochet, Pierre Marie, Nicolás Monardes, and Kyusaku Ogino. After him are Sergey Botkin, Philip Showalter Hench, Richard Bright, Antonio Scarpa, Antonio Bertoloni, and Anastasia Golovina.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1718, William Hunter ranks 17Before him are Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie, Antoine de Chézy, Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, John Canton, Johan Ernst Gunnerus, and Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix. After him are Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht, Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg, George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney, and Hugh Blair. Among people deceased in 1783, William Hunter ranks 18Before him are Princess Caroline Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt, Johann Jakob Bodmer, Johann Kirnberger, Christian Mayer, Ignaz Holzbauer, and Gerhard Friedrich Müller. After him is Capability Brown.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Hunter ranks 2,781 out of 7,765Before him are Ronald Speirs (1920), Cosmo Duff-Gordon (1862), John Shrapnel (1942), Geoff Duke (1923), Ronald Fairbairn (1889), and Anna Kingsford (1846). After him are Eric Gill (1882), Jim Sturgess (1978), Barry Jackson (1938), John Wilkinson (1728), Mick Jackson (1943), and Thomas Wedgwood (1771).

Among PHYSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among physicians born in United Kingdom, William Hunter ranks 40Before him are William Turner (1510), Rutherford Alcock (1809), Harry Seeley (1839), James Young Simpson (1811), John Crawfurd (1783), and James Paget (1814). After him are Richard Bright (1789), Sir William Bowman, 1st Baronet (1816), Robert Knox (1791), Thomas Francis Wade (1818), Ernest Starling (1866), and Richard Leach Maddox (1816).