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Alexander Gordon Laing

1794 - 1826

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His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Alexander Gordon Laing is the 342nd most popular explorer (down from 300th in 2024), the 3,040th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,388th in 2019) and the 39th most popular British Explorer.

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Among Explorers

Among explorers, Alexander Gordon Laing ranks 342 out of 498Before him are Khariton Laptev, Pascual de Andagoya, Martim Afonso de Sousa, Meriwether Lewis, Georg August Wallin, and Louis de Freycinet. After him are Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Yuri Lisyansky, Hugh Clapperton, Sebastián Vizcaíno, Domingo Martínez de Irala, and Paweł Strzelecki.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1794, Alexander Gordon Laing ranks 46Before him are Gabriel Antonio Pereira, Joseph Lebeau, Konstantin Thon, Wei Yuan, Abbasgulu Bakikhanov, and Princess Amalie of Saxony. After him are Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt, Leopold Zunz, Antoine Bussy, Heinz Christian Pander, Gerrit Schimmelpenninck, and Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal. Among people deceased in 1826, Alexander Gordon Laing ranks 45Before him are Nikolay Rumyantsev, Johann Heinrich Voss, J. F. Oberlin, Jens Baggesen, Fyodor Rostopchin, and Stanisław Staszic. After him are Friedrich August Marschall von Bieberstein, Nicolas Fuss, Antoni Malczewski, Ferdinand Bauer, Germanos III of Old Patras, and Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Alexander Gordon Laing ranks 3,041 out of NaNBefore him are Paul Johnson (1928), Margaret of England (1240), Daniel Oliver (1830), Clare Torry (1947), Howard Webb (1971), and Pete Burns (1959). After him are John Arthur Jarvis (1872), Amanda Tapping (1965), Danny Murphy (1977), Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma (1924), Henry Ireton (1611), and Henry Taylor (1885).

Among Explorers In United Kingdom

Among explorers born in United Kingdom, Alexander Gordon Laing ranks 39Before him are Richard Chancellor (1521), William Smith (1790), Anthony Jenkinson (1529), John Byron (1723), Lady Hester Stanhope (1776), and John McDouall Stuart (1815). After him are Hugh Clapperton (1788), Alexander Dalrymple (1737), Humphrey Gilbert (1539), Vivian Fuchs (1908), John Biscoe (1794), and George Bass (1771).

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