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John Richardson

1787 - 1865

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Sir John Richardson FRS FRSE (5 November 1787 – 5 June 1865) was a Scottish naval surgeon, naturalist and Arctic explorer. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Richardson is the 634th most popular biologist (up from 735th in 2019), the 3,003rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,550th in 2019) and the 93rd most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, John Richardson ranks 634 out of 1,097Before him are Johann Centurius Hoffmannsegg, Carl Bolle, Carl Friedrich von Ledebour, Charles Horton Peck, Joseph Rock, and Émile Auguste Joseph De Wildeman. After him are Philip Barker-Webb, August von Pelzeln, Roberto de Visiani, Caspar Georg Carl Reinwardt, William John Burchell, and Aylmer Bourke Lambert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1787, John Richardson ranks 35Before him are Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Hildburghausen, William Etty, Josef Ludwig von Armansperg, Alexander Alyabyev, Ramón Freire, and Pellegrino Rossi. After him are Ninomiya Sontoku, José María Bocanegra, Joaquín Mosquera, Michele Carafa, Thomas Say, and Konstantin Batyushkov. Among people deceased in 1865, John Richardson ranks 55Before him are Princess Anna of Hesse and by Rhine, Joseph Lebeau, Léon Jean Marie Dufour, Alexander Dukhnovych, Charles Lock Eastlake, and Mary Surratt. After him are Robert Hermann Schomburgk, Otto Ludwig, Eugène Devéria, Richard Cobden, Antonios Kriezis, and Marie-Anne Libert.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Richardson ranks 3,004 out of 8,785Before him are Eleanor of Scotland (1433), Maryam d'Abo (1960), Ellen Terry (1847), Samuel Clarke (1675), Anthony Dawson (1916), and Peter Mayle (1939). After him are Naveen Andrews (1969), Shaun Murphy (1982), Minnie Driver (1970), Philip Barker-Webb (1793), Frederick Scott Archer (1813), and Martin Peters (1943).

Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, John Richardson ranks 93Before him are Frederick DuCane Godman (1834), Philip Henry Gosse (1810), William Speirs Bruce (1867), Charles Walter De Vis (1829), Patrick Manson (1844), and Ray Lankester (1847). After him are Philip Barker-Webb (1793), William John Burchell (1781), Aylmer Bourke Lambert (1761), Daniel Oliver (1830), James Francis Stephens (1792), and Paul Nurse (1949).