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Frederick Gowland Hopkins
John Palmer Clarke (active 1890-1909), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Frederick Gowland Hopkins

British biochemist

Born 20 June 1861 · died 16 May 1947, aged 85
Also known as Frederick Hopkins, F. G. Hopkins, Sir Frederick Hopkins

Who was alive at the same time as Frederick Gowland Hopkins?

  1. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  2. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  3. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  4. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  5. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  6. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  7. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  8. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  9. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  10. Frederick Gowland Hopkins, 1861 – 1947
  11. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  12. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  13. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  14. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  15. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  16. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  17. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  18. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  19. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  20. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  21. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  22. Joe Biden, born 1942
  23. Donald Trump, born 1946
  24. George W. Bush, born 1946

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When Frederick Gowland Hopkins was born, Karl Marx was 43, Abraham Lincoln was 52, Leo Tolstoy was 32, Charles Darwin was 52 and Victor Hugo was 59.

When Frederick Gowland Hopkins died, Donald Trump was under a year old, Albert Einstein was 68, Ronald Reagan was 36, Nelson Mandela was 28 and Mahatma Gandhi was 77.

Born during Frederick Gowland Hopkins’s lifetime: Donald Trump, Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Vladimir Lenin, Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi and George W. Bush.

Not quite contemporaries: Barack Obama was born about 14 years after Frederick Gowland Hopkins died, Michael Jackson was born about 11 years after Frederick Gowland Hopkins died, Vladimir Putin was born about 5 years after Frederick Gowland Hopkins died and Bill Gates was born about 8 years after Frederick Gowland Hopkins died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

2,838 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Frederick Gowland Hopkins. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1904.

  1. Donald Trump born 1946
  2. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  3. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  4. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  5. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  6. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  7. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  8. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  9. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  10. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  11. George W. Bush born 1946
  12. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  13. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  14. Joe Biden born 1942
  15. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  16. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  17. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  18. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  19. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  20. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  21. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  22. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  23. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  24. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  25. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  26. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  27. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  28. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  29. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  30. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  31. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  32. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  33. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  34. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  35. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  36. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  37. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  38. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  39. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  40. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  41. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  42. Bill Clinton born 1946
  43. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  44. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  45. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  46. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  47. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  48. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  49. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  50. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  51. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  52. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  53. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  54. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  55. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  56. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  57. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  58. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  59. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  60. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  61. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  62. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  63. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  64. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  65. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  66. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  67. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  68. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  69. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  70. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  71. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  72. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  73. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  74. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  75. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  76. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  77. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  78. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  79. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  80. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  81. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  82. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  83. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  84. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  85. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  86. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  87. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  88. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  89. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  90. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  91. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  92. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  93. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  94. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  95. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  96. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  97. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  98. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  99. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  100. Bob Dylan born 1941
  101. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  102. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  103. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  104. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  105. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  106. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  107. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  108. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  109. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  110. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  111. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  112. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  113. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  114. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  115. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  116. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  117. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  118. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  119. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  120. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  121. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  122. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  123. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  124. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  125. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  126. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  127. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  128. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  129. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  130. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  131. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  132. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  133. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  134. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  135. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  136. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  137. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  138. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  139. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  140. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  141. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  142. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  143. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  144. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  145. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  146. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  147. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  148. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  149. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  150. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879