PHYSICIAN

James Curtis Hepburn

1815 - 1911

Photo of James Curtis Hepburn

Icon of person James Curtis Hepburn

James Curtis Hepburn (; March 13, 1815 – September 21, 1911) was an American physician, educator, translator and lay Christian missionary. He is known for the Hepburn romanization system for transliteration of the Japanese language into the Latin alphabet, which he popularized in his Japanese–English dictionary. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. James Curtis Hepburn is the 346th most popular physician (down from 325th in 2019), the 3,332nd most popular biography from United States (down from 2,958th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular American Physician.

Memorability Metrics

Loading...

Page views of James Curtis Hepburn by language

Loading...

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, James Curtis Hepburn ranks 346 out of 726. Before him are Prospero Alpini, Mary Putnam Jacobi, Friedrich Hoffmann, Horace Wells, Masawaiyh, and Podalirius. After him are Karl Genzken, Aëtius of Amida, Thomas Szasz, Paul Neumann, Jean Baptiste François Pierre Bulliard, and Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat.

Most Popular Physicians in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1815, James Curtis Hepburn ranks 35. Before him are Andrew Graham, Charles Renouvier, Wilhelm Peters, Ii Naosuke, Louise Rasmussen, and Horace Wells. After him are Jean-Delphin Alard, Eugène Marin Labiche, Robert Remak, Robert Volkmann, Ang Mey, and George Averoff. Among people deceased in 1911, James Curtis Hepburn ranks 36. Before him are George Johnstone Stoney, Jan Puzyna de Kosielsko, Frances Harper, Heinrich Hofmann, Maurice Rouvier, and Jack Daniel. After him are Sister Nivedita, Georg, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe, Félix Ziem, Georg Hilmar, Christian Bohr, and Sam Loyd.

Others Born in 1815

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1911

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In United States

Among people born in United States, James Curtis Hepburn ranks 3,332 out of 20,380. Before him are Peter Cetera (1944), Eric Trump (1984), Mercedes McCambridge (1916), Brad Little (1954), Kathy Reichs (1948), and Earl Boen (1945). After him are Tommy Bolin (1951), Steven Van Zandt (1950), Richard Brautigan (1935), Larry Scott (1938), Grace Slick (1939), and Bob Hastings (1925).

Others born in United States

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, James Curtis Hepburn ranks 43. Before him are John Harvey Kellogg (1852), Gregg L. Semenza (1956), Henry Heimlich (1920), Mehmet Oz (1960), Fernando J. Corbató (1926), and Horace Wells (1815). After him are Thomas Horsfield (1773), Priscilla Chan (1985), Philip Showalter Hench (1896), Jack Kevorkian (1928), Walter Jackson Freeman II (1895), and William Bates (1860).

American born Physicians

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous