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Wim Eijk

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Willem Jacobus "Wim" Eijk (born 22 June 1953) is a Dutch prelate of the Catholic Church, a cardinal since 2012. He has been the Metropolitan Archbishop of Utrecht since 2007. He was Bishop of Groningen-Leeuwarden from 1999 to 2007. Before his clerical career he worked as a medical doctor; as a priest he made medical ethics the focus of his academic studies. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Wim Eijk is the 259th most popular physician (up from 484th in 2019), the 264th most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 607th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Dutch Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Wim Eijk ranks 259 out of 726. Before him are Carl Værnet, Charaka, Hans Rosling, Leonhart Fuchs, Joseph Erlanger, and Gavriil Ilizarov. After him are May-Britt Moser, Karl Adolph von Basedow, Cicely Saunders, Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol, François Magendie, and Caspar Friedrich Wolff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Wim Eijk ranks 93. Before him are Dominique de Villepin, Salvatore Garau, Maurizio Malvestiti, Alan Moore, Joseph Augustus Zarelli, and Loalwa Braz. After him are Sergio Castellitto, Ivo Sanader, Alpha Blondy, Joan Lin, Hussein Arnous, and Bobby Joe Long.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Wim Eijk ranks 264 out of 1,646. Before him are Ton Koopman (1944), William II, Duke of Bavaria (1365), Guido van Rossum (1956), Cornelis de Houtman (1565), Yolanda Hadid (1964), and Adriaan Blaauw (1914). After him are Tiësto (1969), Fanny Blankers-Koen (1918), Geert Adriaans Boomgaard (1788), Pieter van Laer (1599), Sicco Mansholt (1908), and Emanuel de Witte (1617).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Netherlands

Among physicians born in Netherlands, Wim Eijk ranks 7. Before him are Christiaan Eijkman (1858), Peter Canisius (1521), Cornelius Jansen (1585), Nicolaes Tulp (1593), Frederik Ruysch (1638), and Johann Weyer (1515). After him are Regnier de Graaf (1641), Herman Snellen (1834), Franciscus Donders (1818), Titus Brandsma (1881), Gerard van Swieten (1700), and Aletta Jacobs (1854).

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