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Mungo Park

1771 - 1806

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Mungo Park (10 September 1771 – 1806) was a Scottish explorer of West Africa. After an exploration of the upper Niger River around 1796, he wrote a popular and influential travel book titled Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa in which he theorized the Niger and Congo merged to become the same river, though it was later proven that they are different rivers. He was killed during a second expedition, having successfully travelled about two-thirds of the way down the Niger. If the African Association was the "beginning of the age of African exploration" by Europeans, then Mungo Park was its first successful explorer; he set a standard for all who followed. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mungo Park is the 238th most popular physician (down from 212th in 2019), the 1,347th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,074th in 2019) and the 16th most popular British Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Mungo Park ranks 238 out of 726. Before him are Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Hasdai ibn Shaprut, Tasuku Honjo, Dominique Jean Larrey, Emil du Bois-Reymond, and Asclepiades of Bithynia. After him are Paul of Aegina, Robert Atkins, Vladimir Dal, Albert Calmette, Rembert Dodoens, and Francysk Skaryna.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1771, Mungo Park ranks 16. Before him are Alois Senefelder, Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg, Marie François Xavier Bichat, Jean-Andoche Junot, Laskarina Bouboulina, and Princess Louise Auguste of Denmark. After him are Éleuthère Irénée du Pont, Ferdinando Paer, Joseph Diez Gergonne, Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Mikhail Miloradovich, and Rahel Varnhagen. Among people deceased in 1806, Mungo Park ranks 22. Before him are Nicolas Leblanc, Mathurin Jacques Brisson, Claude Nicolas Ledoux, Michel Adanson, Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, and Princess Maria Antonia of Naples and Sicily. After him are Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, Pavel Tsitsianov, Vicente Martín y Soler, John Breckinridge, and Prince Francis Xavier of Saxony.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Mungo Park ranks 1,347 out of 8,785. Before him are Tony Atkinson (1944), Joseph Addison (1672), Alistair MacLean (1922), Charles Vane (1680), James Faulkner (1948), and Margaret Burbidge (1919). After him are Winifred Wagner (1897), Elizabeth Siddal (1829), Dana Rosemary Scallon (1951), David Warner (1941), E. E. Evans-Pritchard (1902), and Thomas Browne (1605).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among physicians born in United Kingdom, Mungo Park ranks 16. Before him are Elizabeth Blackwell (1821), Robert Knox (1791), Hans Sloane (1660), Thomas Willis (1621), Frederick Griffith (1879), and John Langdon Down (1828). After him are James Lind (1716), Cicely Saunders (1918), Clarke Abel (1780), Henry Gray (1827), Thomas Addison (1793), and Thomas Hodgkin (1798).

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