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William Jones

1746 - 1794

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Sir William Jones (28 September 1746 – 27 April 1794) was a British philologist, orientalist and a puisne judge on the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal, and a scholar of ancient India. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Jones has received more than 54,488 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). William Jones is the 25th most popular linguist (down from 19th in 2019), the 683rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 657th in 2019) and the most popular British Linguist.

William Jones was the founder of the Royal Asiatic Society. He is most famous for his translations of Persian and Indian texts, as well as his work on Hindu law.

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  • 54k

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  • 62.57

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  • 47

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.28

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.16

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, William Jones ranks 25 out of 214. Before him are Patanjali, Jost Gippert, Georges Dumézil, Johann Martin Schleyer, Johann Christoph Adelung, and Ignác Goldziher. After him are Lucien Tesnière, Nikolai Trubetzkoy, Sibawayh, Pompeu Fabra, Franz Miklosich, and Nicholas Marr.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1746, William Jones ranks 10. Before him are Tadeusz Kościuszko, Gaspard Monge, Gustav III of Sweden, Giuseppe Piazzi, Archduchess Maria Amalia of Austria, and Maurice Benyovszky. After him are Sophia Magdalena of Denmark, Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville, Giovanni Battista Venturi, George XII of Georgia, Tiradentes, and Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Crown Princess of Prussia. Among people deceased in 1794, William Jones ranks 16. Before him are Jacques Hébert, Élisabeth of France, André Chénier, Georges Couthon, Gregory Skovoroda, and Augustin Robespierre. After him are Georg Forster, Wenzel Anton, Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg, Nicolas Chamfort, Jacques Roux, Countess Palatine Maria Franziska of Sulzbach, and Henri de la Rochejaquelein.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Jones ranks 683 out of 8,785. Before him are Roy Hodgson (1947), James Francis Edward Stuart (1688), John Henry Newman (1801), James Clark Ross (1800), Bruce Chatwin (1940), and Oliver Heaviside (1850). After him are Dua Lipa (1995), Jessica Tandy (1909), Peter Finch (1916), Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon (1930), Jim Broadbent (1949), and Peter Shilton (1949).

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Among LINGUISTS In United Kingdom

Among linguists born in United Kingdom, William Jones ranks 1. After him are Robert Morrison (1782), John Chadwick (1920), Michael Halliday (1925), Daniel Jones (1881), John Florio (1553), James Legge (1815), Brian Houghton Hodgson (1800), John Lyons (1932), Henry Liddell (1811), Jane Ellen Harrison (1850), and John Rupert Firth (1890).

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