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Francis Buchanan-Hamilton

1762 - 1829

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Francis Buchanan (15 February 1762 – 15 June 1829), later known as Francis Hamilton but often referred to as Francis Buchanan-Hamilton, was a Scottish surgeon, surveyor and botanist who made significant contributions as a geographer and zoologist while living in India. He did not assume the name of Hamilton until three years after his retirement from India. The standard botanical author abbreviation Buch.-Ham. is applied to plants and animals he described, though today the form "Hamilton, 1822" is more usually seen in ichthyology and is preferred by Fishbase. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Francis Buchanan-Hamilton is the 567th most popular physician (up from 583rd in 2019), the 3,481st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,616th in 2019) and the 51st most popular British Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Francis Buchanan-Hamilton ranks 567 out of 726. Before him are Devi Shetty, Friedrich Robert Faehlmann, María Teresa Ferrari, Ludwig Aschoff, Guy Patin, and Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar. After him are Adolf Meyer, Sunao Tawara, Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt, Napoleon Cybulski, Adam Zamenhof, and Jeffrey Ullman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1762, Francis Buchanan-Hamilton ranks 30. Before him are Juan O'Donojú, Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland, Giuseppe Valadier, Anton Aloys, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Princess Caroline of Nassau-Usingen, and Marcos Portugal. After him are Lachlan Macquarie, Marie Bouliard, Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst, and Joanna Baillie. Among people deceased in 1829, Francis Buchanan-Hamilton ranks 41. Before him are Cristóbal Mendoza, Frederick VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg, Adam Müller, Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros, Wojciech Bogusławski, and Richard Anthony Salisbury. After him are Timothy Pickering, Cornelio Saavedra, John Mawe, James Smithson, Albrecht Berblinger, and Henry Dearborn.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Francis Buchanan-Hamilton ranks 3,482 out of 8,785. Before him are Geoff Downes (1952), Paul Potts (1970), Nicholas Clay (1946), Centwine of Wessex (643), Philip Jackson (1948), and William Davies Evans (1790). After him are Barry Ackroyd (1954), Abraham Darby I (1678), Melita Norwood (1912), John Walter Gregory (1864), David Don (1799), and Gabrielle Anwar (1970).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among physicians born in United Kingdom, Francis Buchanan-Hamilton ranks 51. Before him are William Hunter (1718), Thomas Francis Wade (1818), Anthony Carlisle (1768), John Crawfurd (1783), Frederick Twort (1877), and John Arbuthnot (1667). After him are Patrick Steptoe (1913), James Paget (1814), Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899), Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer (1850), Richard Leach Maddox (1816), and Sophia Jex-Blake (1840).

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