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John Edward Gray

1800 - 1875

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John Edward Gray (12 February 1800 – 7 March 1875) was a British zoologist. He was the elder brother of zoologist George Robert Gray and son of the pharmacologist and botanist Samuel Frederick Gray (1766–1828). The standard author abbreviation J.E.Gray is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. The same is used for a zoological name. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Edward Gray is the 38th most popular biologist (up from 59th in 2019), the 353rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 457th in 2019) and the 11th most popular British Biologist.

John Edward Gray is most famous for being the first person to publish a comprehensive list of animal species.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, John Edward Gray ranks 38 out of 1,097. Before him are Albrecht Kossel, Conrad Gessner, Francis Crick, George Smith, Trofim Lysenko, and Barbara McClintock. After him are Rachel Carson, Albert Claude, Christian de Duve, Karl von Frisch, Ada Yonath, and Richard Henderson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1800, John Edward Gray ranks 4. Before him are Friedrich Wöhler, Thomas Babington Macaulay, and Helmuth von Moltke the Elder. After him are Millard Fillmore, Emperor Ninkō, France Prešeren, Charles Goodyear, Henry Fox Talbot, Jean-Baptiste Dumas, John Brown, and Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg. Among people deceased in 1875, John Edward Gray ranks 8. Before him are Georges Bizet, Ferdinand I of Austria, Jean-François Millet, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Éliphas Lévi, and Andrew Johnson. After him are Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, Charles Lyell, Isaac Singer, Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander, Charles Wheatstone, and Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Edward Gray ranks 353 out of 8,785. Before him are Julie Andrews (1935), Stan Laurel (1890), Lady Godiva (990), Syd Barrett (1946), Vivienne Westwood (1941), and Frank Williams (1942). After him are Edward Gibbon (1737), Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803), George Michael (1963), Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792), Jimmy Page (1944), and Henrietta of England (1644).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, John Edward Gray ranks 11. Before him are Robert Brown (1773), Alfred Russel Wallace (1823), John Boyd Orr (1880), Thomas Henry Huxley (1825), John Sulston (1942), and Francis Crick (1916). After him are Christian de Duve (1917), Richard Henderson (1945), Gregory Winter (1951), George Shaw (1751), Michael Houghton (1949), and Richard Owen (1804).

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