The Most Famous

BIOLOGISTS from Kenya

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This page contains a list of the greatest Kenyan Biologists. The pantheon dataset contains 1,097 Biologists, 1 of which were born in Kenya. This makes Kenya the birth place of the 43rd most number of Biologists behind Lebanon, and Jordan.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Kenyan Biologists of all time. This list of famous Kenyan Biologists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.

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1. Richard Dawkins (b. 1941)

With an HPI of 75.49, Richard Dawkins is the most famous Kenyan Biologist.  His biography has been translated into 97 different languages on wikipedia.

Richard Dawkins (born 26 March 1941) is a British evolutionary biologist, zoologist, science communicator and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was Professor for Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford from 1995 to 2008, and is on the advisory board of the University of Austin. His book The Selfish Gene (1976) popularised the gene-centred view of evolution and coined the word meme. Dawkins has won several academic and writing awards. A vocal atheist, Dawkins is known for his criticism of creationism and intelligent design. He wrote The Blind Watchmaker (1986), in which he argues against the watchmaker analogy, an argument for the existence of a creator deity based upon the complexity of living organisms. Instead, he describes evolutionary processes as analogous to a blind watchmaker, in that reproduction, mutation and selection are unguided by any sentient designer. In his book The God Delusion (2006) he argues that a supernatural creator almost certainly does not exist and calls religious faith a delusion. He founded the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science in 2006. Dawkins has published two volumes of memoirs, An Appetite for Wonder (2013) and Brief Candle in the Dark (2015).

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Pantheon has 1 people classified as Kenyan biologists born between 1941 and 1941. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Kenyan biologists include Richard Dawkins. As of April 2024, 1 new Kenyan biologists have been added to Pantheon including Richard Dawkins.

Living Kenyan Biologists

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Newly Added Kenyan Biologists (2024)

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