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John Latham

1740 - 1837

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John Latham (27 June 1740 – 4 February 1837) was an English physician, naturalist and author. His main works were A General Synopsis of Birds (1781–1801) and A General History of Birds (1821–1828). He was able to examine specimens of Australian birds that reached England in the final twenty years of the 18th century, and was responsible for providing English names for many of them. He named some of Australia's most famous birds, including the emu, sulphur-crested cockatoo, wedge-tailed eagle, superb lyrebird, Australian magpie, magpie-lark, white-throated needletail and pheasant coucal. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Latham is the 307th most popular physician (up from 311th in 2019), the 1,771st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,664th in 2019) and the 24th most popular British Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, John Latham ranks 307 out of 726. Before him are Ennio Antonelli, Saint Fabiola, Mehmet Oz, William Osler, Michel-Gabriel Paccard, and Antonio Maria Valsalva. After him are John Hunter, Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari, Grunya Sukhareva, Edward Bach, Edmond Locard, and Franciscus Donders.

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Among people born in 1740, John Latham ranks 15. Before him are Carl Michael Bellman, Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein, Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay, Louis-Sébastien Mercier, John Sullivan, and Giambattista Bodoni. After him are Johann Jacob Schweppe, Princess Ernestine of Saxe-Weimar, Anders Johan Lexell, James Boswell, Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine, and Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau. Among people deceased in 1837, John Latham ranks 25. Before him are Duke Pius August in Bavaria, Ludwig Börne, 10th Dalai Lama, Duke Wilhelm in Bavaria, Marguerite Gérard, and François-Xavier Fabre. After him are Mariano José de Larra, Princess Louise Eleonore of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, William George Horner, Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli, Gaspar del Bufalo, and Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Latham ranks 1,771 out of 8,785. Before him are Princess Augusta of Great Britain (1737), Nevil Maskelyne (1732), Robert Chambers (1802), Patrick Geddes (1854), Alexander Mackenzie (1764), and John Graunt (1620). After him are John Hunter (1728), Paul McGrath (1959), Rosamund Pike (1979), Philip Sidney (1554), Paul Scofield (1922), and Edward Blyth (1810).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among physicians born in United Kingdom, John Latham ranks 24. Before him are Cicely Saunders (1918), Clarke Abel (1780), Henry Gray (1827), Thomas Addison (1793), Thomas Hodgkin (1798), and William Gull (1816). After him are John Hunter (1728), Edward Bach (1886), Harry Seeley (1839), Thomas Sydenham (1624), Sir John Pringle, 1st Baronet (1707), and Mary Putnam Jacobi (1842).

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