BIOLOGIST

Charles Tate Regan

1878 - 1943

Photo of Charles Tate Regan

Icon of person Charles Tate Regan

Charles Tate Regan (1 February 1878 – 12 January 1943) was a British ichthyologist, working mainly around the beginning of the 20th century. He did extensive work on fish classification schemes. Born in Sherborne, Dorset, he was educated at Derby School and Queens' College, Cambridge and in 1901 joined the staff of the Natural History Museum, where he became Keeper of Zoology, and later director of the entire museum, in which role he served from 1927 to 1938. Regan was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1917. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Tate Regan is the 884th most popular biologist (down from 878th in 2019), the 3,997th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,282nd in 2019) and the 137th most popular British Biologist.

Memorability Metrics

Loading...

Page views of Charles Tate Regan by language

Loading...

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Charles Tate Regan ranks 884 out of 1,097Before him are William Hemsley, Carlo Luigi Spegazzini, Théodore Monod, Liberty Hyde Bailey, Henry Baker, and Flossie Wong-Staal. After him are Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Claus, Thomas Andrew Knight, Jakob Emanuel Lange, William Townsend Aiton, Tokiharu Abe, and Peter Ascanius.

Most Popular Biologists in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Charles Tate Regan ranks 203Before him are Muriel Robb, Ion Dragoumis, Paul Weinstein, John Derbyshire, Francisco Lagos Cházaro, and Zdeněk Nejedlý. After him are Holcombe Ward, Mikheil Tsereteli, Edith Hannam, Peter Kemp, Peder Kolstad, and John Cregan. Among people deceased in 1943, Charles Tate Regan ranks 188Before him are Peider Lansel, Otto Modersohn, Willoughby Hamilton, András Székely, Georg Gehring, and W. W. Jacobs. After him are Akilles Järvinen, Gisela Januszewska, Alice Tegnér, Wilhelm Geiger, Oswald Teichmüller, and Robert W. Paul.

Others Born in 1878

Go to all Rankings

Others Deceased in 1943

Go to all Rankings

In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Charles Tate Regan ranks 3,998 out of 8,785Before him are Lemuel Francis Abbott (1760), David Stewart, Duke of Rothesay (1378), Thomas Linley the younger (1756), Hywel Dda (880), Gladys Davis (1893), and Chris Irwin (1942). After him are Andy Green (1962), Peter Perez Burdett (1734), Kim Newman (1959), Andy Taylor (1961), Mike Spence (1936), and Jane March (1973).

Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Charles Tate Regan ranks 137Before him are Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet (1800), Reginald Punnett (1875), Charles Wyville Thomson (1830), Ann Bishop (1899), William Hemsley (1843), and Henry Baker (1698). After him are Thomas Andrew Knight (1759), William Townsend Aiton (1766), Hugh Edwin Strickland (1811), Marmaduke Tunstall (1743), Louis Fraser (1810), and Joseph Barcroft (1872).