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George Robert Gray

1808 - 1872

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George Robert Gray (8 July 1808 – 6 May 1872) was an English zoologist and author, and head of the ornithological section of the British Museum, now the Natural History Museum, London for forty-one years. He was the younger brother of the zoologist John Edward Gray and the son of the botanist Samuel Frederick Gray. George Gray's most important publication was his Genera of Birds (1844–49), illustrated by David William Mitchell and Joseph Wolf, which included 46,000 references. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. George Robert Gray is the 175th most popular biologist (up from 181st in 2019), the 985th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,034th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, George Robert Gray ranks 175 out of 1,097. Before him are William Bateson, Mathurin Jacques Brisson, Joseph Dalton Hooker, John Ray, Norman Borlaug, and Adolf Engler. After him are Dmitri Ivanovsky, Alexander Agassiz, Adam Afzelius, Antoine-Augustin Parmentier, Ludwig von Bertalanffy, and Carl Woese.

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Among people born in 1808, George Robert Gray ranks 18. Before him are Johann Gustav Droysen, David Strauss, Maria Malibran, Carl Spitzweg, Mohammad Shah Qajar, and Thomas Cook. After him are Princess Louise of Prussia, Nimatullah Kassab, Wilhelm Weitling, José de Espronceda, Henrik Wergeland, and Solomon Northup. Among people deceased in 1872, George Robert Gray ranks 12. Before him are William John Macquorn Rankine, Théophile Gautier, Benito Juárez, Stanisław Moniuszko, N. F. S. Grundtvig, and Franz Grillparzer. After him are Aleksis Kivi, William Webb Ellis, Ljudevit Gaj, Mary Somerville, Charles-Eugène Delaunay, and Mpande kaSenzangakhona.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, George Robert Gray ranks 985 out of 8,785. Before him are Brian Eno (1948), Natasha Richardson (1963), Charles Spurgeon (1834), Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868), John A. Hobson (1858), and Rachel Weisz (1970). After him are Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York (1373), Robert Graves (1895), Brian O'Nolan (1911), Boris Karloff (1887), Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury (1671), and James Clark Ross (1800).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, George Robert Gray ranks 33. Before him are Martin Evans (1941), Charles Scott Sherrington (1952), Henry Walter Bates (1825), William Bateson (1861), Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817), and John Ray (1627). After him are Anna Atkins (1799), Julian Huxley (1887), Joseph Banks (1743), William Carey (1761), Oldfield Thomas (1858), and J. B. S. Haldane (1892).

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