BIOLOGIST

William Thomas Blanford

1832 - 1905

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William Thomas Blanford (7 October 1832 – 23 June 1905) was an English geologist and naturalist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Thomas Blanford has received more than 44,765 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). William Thomas Blanford is the 772nd most popular biologist (down from 704th in 2019), the 3,732nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,546th in 2019) and the 106th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, William Thomas Blanford ranks 772 out of 1,097Before him are Bunzō Hayata, Spencer Fullerton Baird, Kristine Bonnevie, Ángel Cabrera, Giacomo Bresadola, and Jules Verreaux. After him are Alfred G. Knudson, Hipólito Ruiz López, Nathaniel Lord Britton, Charlotte Auerbach, Joseph Banks Rhine, and Louisa Bolus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1832, William Thomas Blanford ranks 84Before him are Heinrich Gerber, Zsófia Torma, Boston Corbett, Adalbert Krueger, Horatio Alger, and Léon Gautier. After him are Marcelo Azcárraga Palmero, Gyula Szapáry, Mary Everest Boole, Kolos Ferenc Vaszary, Edward Wilmot Blyden, and Edward Newton. Among people deceased in 1905, William Thomas Blanford ranks 79Before him are Simeon Solomon, Frederic Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford, Émile Oustalet, Francisco Silvela, Harold Mahony, and Theodore Thomas. After him are Victor Borisov-Musatov, George Williams, Juan Lindolfo Cuestas, Étienne Desmarteau, Lev Lagorio, and Gyula Szapáry.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Thomas Blanford ranks 3,732 out of 8,785Before him are Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet (1783), James Steuart (1712), Barbara Windsor (1937), Winifred McNair (1877), William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong (1810), and Joseph Thomson (1858). After him are Eliza Acton (1799), Captain Tom (1920), George Finlay (1799), Philip Howard, 13th Earl of Arundel (1557), Angela Mortimer (1932), and Jeremy Wade (1956).

Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, William Thomas Blanford ranks 106Before him are Louis Fraser (1810), Mary F. Lyon (1925), Charles Wyville Thomson (1830), John Gerard (1545), Albert Bruce Jackson (1876), and James Sowerby (1757). After him are Henry Baker (1698), Thomas Andrew Knight (1759), Mary Elizabeth Barber (1818), William Townsend Aiton (1766), Alec Jeffreys (1950), and Thomas Thomson (1817).