BIOLOGIST

William Roxburgh

1751 - 1815

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William Roxburgh FRSE FRCPE FLS (3/29 June 1751 – 18 February 1815) was a Scottish surgeon and botanist who worked extensively in India, describing species and working on economic botany. He is known as the founding father of Indian botany. He published numerous works on Indian botany, illustrated by careful drawings made by Indian artists and accompanied by taxonomic descriptions of many plant species. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Roxburgh has received more than 82,969 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). William Roxburgh is the 669th most popular biologist (up from 821st in 2019), the 3,251st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,173rd in 2019) and the 87th most popular British Biologist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 83k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.88

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.30

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.89

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of William Roxburghs by language

Over the past year William Roxburgh has had the most page views in the with 11,477 views, followed by Bengali (3,134), and Spanish (1,567). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Finnish (409.52%), Catalan (153.01%), and Egyptian Arabic (115.97%)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, William Roxburgh ranks 669 out of 1,097. Before him are Eduard Oscar Schmidt, Jinzō Matsumura, Amotz Zahavi, Robert Swinhoe, Japetus Steenstrup, and Samuel Garman. After him are Bernard Heuvelmans, Johann Amman, Reginald Punnett, Hugo von Mohl, Wilhelm Hemprich, and Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1751, William Roxburgh ranks 26. Before him are Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Meiningen, Julie Billiart, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Anders Dahl, Johann Heinrich Voss, and Uesugi Harunori. After him are John Abbot, Corona Schröter, Johan Henric Kellgren, George Montagu, John Shore, 1st Baron Teignmouth, and Henry Dearborn. Among people deceased in 1815, William Roxburgh ranks 29. Before him are Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, Francesco Bartolozzi, John Singleton Copley, Johann Peter Salomon, William Nicholson, and Jakub Jan Ryba. After him are Thomas Picton, George Montagu, Benjamin Smith Barton, John Carroll, Charles Lee, and Richard Bassett.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Roxburgh ranks 3,251 out of 8,785. Before him are Jonathan Wild (1683), Andy Goldsworthy (1956), Davy Jones (1945), Lady Byron (1792), Dick Turpin (1705), and John Selden (1584). After him are Mike Spence (1936), Leonard Whiting (1950), Madge Syers (1881), Jennifer Saunders (1958), Warren Clarke (1947), and Gary Speed (1969).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, William Roxburgh ranks 87. Before him are Ray Lankester (1847), Anna Russell (1807), William Withering (1741), David Don (1799), Everard Home (1756), and John Sims (1749). After him are Reginald Punnett (1875), N. E. Brown (1849), Keith Campbell (1954), John Hutchinson (1884), John Abbot (1751), and Philip Barker-Webb (1793).

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