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John Ellis

1710 - 1776

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John Ellis (c. 1710 – 15 October 1776) aka Jean Ellis was a British linen merchant and naturalist. Ellis was the first to have a published written description of the Venus flytrap and its botanical name. The standard author abbreviation J.Ellis is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. Ellis specialised in the study of corals. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Ellis is the 764th most popular biologist (down from 568th in 2019), the 203rd most popular biography from Ireland (down from 162nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Irish Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, John Ellis ranks 764 out of 1,097. Before him are Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, John Hutchinson, Domenico Vandelli, Bertha Lutz, Adam Lonicer, and Tomitaro Makino. After him are George Prideaux Robert Harris, Hwang Woo-suk, Wilhelm Weinberg, Otto von Münchhausen, Emmanuel Drake del Castillo, and David Don.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1710, John Ellis ranks 26. Before him are Princess Amalia of Nassau-Dietz, Princess Luise Dorothea of Saxe-Meiningen, Adam Gottlob Moltke, Augustin Ehrensvärd, Charles Simon Favart, and Johann Georg Pinsel. After him is Paul Möhring. Among people deceased in 1776, John Ellis ranks 12. Before him are Natalia Alexeievna, James Ferguson, Jeanne Julie Éléonore de Lespinasse, Sabah I bin Jaber, Duchess Maria Anna Josepha of Bavaria, and Johann Adolf Scheibe. After him are Johann Jakob Breitinger, Giuseppe Asclepi, and Nathan Hale.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, John Ellis ranks 203 out of 549. Before him are Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne (1880), Steve Barron (1956), Cecil Day-Lewis (1904), Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh (1911), Colm Tóibín (1955), and Stephen Roche (1959). After him are Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley (1833), William Orpen (1878), Paul Kane (1810), Richard Steele (1672), Richard Todd (1919), and Brendan Behan (1923).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Ireland

Among biologists born in Ireland, John Ellis ranks 2. Before him are George Allman (1812). After him are William Henry Harvey (1811), and Edward Donovan (1768).

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