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BIOLOGIST

William John Burchell

1781 - 1863

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William John Burchell (23 July 1781 – 23 March 1863) was an English explorer, naturalist, traveller, artist, and author. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William John Burchell has received more than 61,445 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. William John Burchell is the 613th most popular biologist (up from 661st in 2019), the 3,152nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,240th in 2019) and the 82nd most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, William John Burchell ranks 613 out of 841Before him are Everard Home, Augustin Saint-Hilaire, William Henry Hudson, Otto Bütschli, Tommaso Salvadori, and Salomon Müller. After him are Joseph Gottlieb Kölreuter, Ferdinand Albin Pax, Jack Horner, Johann Jakob Bernhardi, Morten Thrane Brünnich, and Joseph Franz von Jacquin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1781, William John Burchell ranks 35Before him are José de Madrazo y Agudo, Johann Friedrich Meckel, George Dawe, Henri Cassini, Christian von Steven, and Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana. After him are Friedrich von Berchtold, Joseph Johann von Littrow, Andrés Narvarte, Alexander Vostokov, Joaquín Suárez, and George Ord. Among people deceased in 1863, William John Burchell ranks 43Before him are C. L. Gloger, Gerrit Schimmelpenninck, Christian von Steven, Andrei Mureșanu, Johann Wilhelm Schirmer, and Salomon Müller. After him are Alfred Moquin-Tandon, Jane Pierce, Little Crow, John F. Reynolds, Nikolai Turczaninow, and Charles Robert Cockerell.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William John Burchell ranks 3,152 out of 7,765Before him are Mal Evans (1935), Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844), Steve Marriott (1947), Don Revie (1927), Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester (1724), and Nik Kershaw (1958). After him are Henry Scott Tuke (1858), Gemma Arterton (1986), Hermione Baddeley (1906), Nigel Davenport (1928), Eva Le Gallienne (1899), and Ælfheah of Canterbury (954).

Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, William John Burchell ranks 82Before him are John Anderson (1833), Anne McLaren (1927), William Withering (1741), Edward Turner Bennett (1797), Charles Wyville Thomson (1830), and Everard Home (1756). After him are Philip Barker-Webb (1793), Mary Elizabeth Barber (1818), Andrew Smith (1797), Edward Newton (1832), Edward Blyth (1810), and John Richardson (1787).