BIOLOGIST

Walter Buller

1838 - 1906

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Sir Walter Lawry Buller (9 October 1838 – 19 July 1906) was a New Zealand lawyer and naturalist who was a dominant figure in New Zealand ornithology. His book, A History of the Birds of New Zealand, first published in 1873, was published as an enlarged version in 1888 and became a New Zealand classic. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Walter Buller is the 941st most popular biologist (up from 1,025th in 2019), the 75th most popular biography from New Zealand (up from 119th in 2019) and the most popular New Zealander Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Walter Buller ranks 941 out of 1,097. Before him are Johann Wilhelm Meigen, Norman I. Platnick, Philipp Christoph Zeller, Alice Catherine Evans, George Edwards, and Shi Zhengli. After him are Maxine Singer, Maxwell T. Masters, Outram Bangs, Mark Catesby, Karl Patterson Schmidt, and Jacob Bjerknes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1838, Walter Buller ranks 99. Before him are Gustav Neumann, Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu, Oswald Schmiedeberg, Marc Delafontaine, Stefanos Skouloudis, and Margaret E. Knight. After him are General Tom Thumb, Henry Hobson Richardson, Joseph F. Smith, Octavia Hill, and John Wanamaker. Among people deceased in 1906, Walter Buller ranks 74. Before him are Ivan Babushkin, Ferdinand von Saar, Aniceto Arce, Pedro Varela, Simon Gregorčič, and José María de Pereda. After him are George Holyoake, Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts, Oscar Levertin, John Schofield, Richard Seddon, and Paul Laurence Dunbar.

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In New Zealand

Among people born in New Zealand, Walter Buller ranks 75 out of 303. Before him are Rupert Julian (1879), Martin Henderson (1974), Wallace Fard Muhammad (1893), Winston Reid (1988), Jacinda Ardern (1980), and Hugh Walpole (1884). After him are Lee Tamahori (1950), Jonah Lomu (1975), Canada at the 2020 Summer Olympics#Field hockey (null), Jenny Shipley (1952), John Gorton (1911), and Keri Hulme (1947).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In New Zealand

Among biologists born in New Zealand, Walter Buller ranks 1. 

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