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John Hawkins
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English navigator, admiral, privateer and slave trader (1532-1595)
OverviewAI-generated
John Hawkins was an English privateer, politician, businessperson, and sailor born in Plymouth in 1532. He served in His Majesty's Naval Service and participated in the Spanish Armada and the Anglo-Spanish War. A Knight Bachelor, he died of dysentery in Puerto Rico on November 12, 1595, due to natural causes. His son was Richard Hawkins.
Hawkins is described by sources including The Nuttall Encyclopædia and the Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition. He is associated with works such as The Life of Samuel Johnson, Ll D, Cocker's arithmetic, The clerk's tutor for writing, The young clerk's tutor enlarged, and Everything Forgotten. His name appears in the Commons category "John Hawkins (naval commander)."
Synthesized by Vinony from 38 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, OpenAlex, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Crossref, Last.fm, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 160
Top works
- The Life of Samuel Johnson, Ll D
- Cocker's arithmetic
- The clerk's tutor for writing
- The young clerk's tutor enlarged
- Everything Forgotten
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1904-11-21
- Active to
- 1969-05-19
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 870
- Total plays
- 3,997
Tags
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/John+Hawkins">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Academic profile · OpenAlex
- Works
- 401
- Cited by
- 22,976
Research areas
Most cited works
- Marine Ecology Progress Series2008 · 892 cit
- Living on the Edge of Two Changing Worlds: Forecasting the Responses of Rocky Intertidal Ecosystems to Climate Change2006 · 719 cit
- The role of kelp species as biogenic habitat formers in coastal marine ecosystems2017 · 612 cit
- Grazing of intertidal algae by marine invertebrates1983 · 571 cit
- Seventy years' observations of changes in distribution and abundance of zooplankton and intertidal organisms in the western English Channel in relation to rising sea temperature1995 · 542 cit
via OpenAlex · CC0
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 204,591x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,635x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,910x
- Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment
· 2007 · cited 35,581x
- The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
· 1992 · cited 29,131x
via Crossref · CC0
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- John
- Family name
- Hawkins
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Place of birth
- Plymouth
- Place of death
- Puerto Rico
- Child
- Richard Hawkins
- Award
- Knight Bachelor
- Conflict
- Anglo-Spanish War
- Military branch
- His Majesty's Naval Service
- Image
- John Hawkins.JPG
Show 8 more facts
- date of birth
- 1532-01-01
- date of death
- 1595-11-12
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- Commons category
- John Hawkins (naval commander)
- ethnic group
- English people
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- John Hawkins
- cause of death
- dysentery
Sources (2)
via Wikidata · CC0