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William John Swainson

1789 - 1855

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William Swainson FLS, FRS (8 October 1789 – 6 December 1855), was an English ornithologist, malacologist, conchologist, entomologist and artist. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. William John Swainson is the 115th most popular biologist (up from 856th in 2019), the 707th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,154th in 2019) and the 21st most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, William John Swainson ranks 115 out of 1,097. Before him are Christiaan Hendrik Persoon, Stanley B. Prusiner, Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim, Svante Pääbo, Hermann Joseph Muller, and Vladimir Vernadsky. After him are Elias Magnus Fries, John B. Calhoun, Ferdinand Cohn, James Edward Smith, Sylvia Earle, and Carl Peter Thunberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1789, William John Swainson ranks 6. Before him are Georg Ohm, Augustin-Louis Cauchy, Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt, James Fenimore Cooper, and Princess Charlotte of Denmark. After him are María Isabella of Spain, Friedrich List, Stéphanie de Beauharnais, Horace Vernet, Johann Friedrich Overbeck, and Heinrich Schwabe. Among people deceased in 1855, William John Swainson ranks 7. Before him are Carl Friedrich Gauss, Søren Kierkegaard, Nicholas I of Russia, Charlotte Brontë, Adam Mickiewicz, and Gérard de Nerval. After him are Adelaide of Austria, Infante Carlos, Count of Molina, Maria Theresa of Austria, William Parry, Pavel Nakhimov, and Prince Ferdinando, Duke of Genoa.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William John Swainson ranks 707 out of 8,785. Before him are Norman Angell (1872), Joan Collins (1933), Alec Douglas-Home (1903), W. T. Stead (1849), Stanley Baldwin (1867), and Kenneth Branagh (1960). After him are John Cockcroft (1897), Bartholomew Roberts (1682), Colin Bell (1946), Margaret Douglas (1515), Tony Iommi (1948), and Oswald Mosley (1896).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, William John Swainson ranks 21. Before him are George Shaw (1751), Michael Houghton (1949), Richard Owen (1804), Archibald Hill (1886), Philip Sclater (1829), and Philip Miller (1691). After him are James Edward Smith (1759), Erasmus Darwin (1731), Reginald Innes Pocock (1863), William Jackson Hooker (1785), Oliver Smithies (1925), and Martin Evans (1941).

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