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Alexander Gordon Laing

1794 - 1826

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Major Alexander Gordon Laing (27 December 1794 – 26 September 1826) was a Scottish explorer and the first European to reach Timbuktu, arriving there via the north-to-south route in August 1826. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Gordon Laing has received more than 103,130 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Alexander Gordon Laing is the 300th most popular explorer (down from 291st in 2019), the 2,389th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,486th in 2019) and the 35th most popular British Explorer.

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  • 58.60

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.71

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.22

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Alexander Gordon Laing ranks 300 out of 498. Before him are Lourenço Marques, Semyon Chelyuskin, Louis Jolliet, Charles Francis Hall, László Almásy, and Peter Freuchen. After him are Fernão de Loronha, Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser, Bertrand Piccard, Meriwether Lewis, Gustav Adolf von Götzen, and Ludwig Leichhardt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1794, Alexander Gordon Laing ranks 36. Before him are Ernst I, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Carl Borivoj Presl, Heinrich Wilhelm Schott, Konstantin Thon, Heinrich Boie, and Princess Amalie of Saxony. After him are Eduard Friedrich Eversmann, Joseph Lebeau, Heinz Christian Pander, Wei Yuan, Henriette d'Angeville, and Achille Valenciennes. Among people deceased in 1826, Alexander Gordon Laing ranks 41. Before him are Pavel Pestel, Anton Walter, Christian Kramp, Jens Baggesen, J. F. Oberlin, and Kondraty Ryleyev. After him are Johann Heinrich Voss, Stanisław Staszic, Germanos III of Old Patras, Jacob Hübner, Nicolas Fuss, and Friedrich August Marschall von Bieberstein.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Alexander Gordon Laing ranks 2,389 out of 8,785. Before him are Anna Sewell (1820), Mary McAleese (1951), Henry Ireton (1611), Herbert James Draper (1863), John Mahoney (1940), and Thomas Blake Glover (1838). After him are George Cruikshank (1792), Arnold Wesker (1932), Eystein II of Norway (1125), Jude Bellingham (2003), Dora Boothby (1881), and Dorian Yates (1962).

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Among EXPLORERS In United Kingdom

Among explorers born in United Kingdom, Alexander Gordon Laing ranks 35. Before him are William Smith (1790), Anthony Jenkinson (1529), Humphrey Gilbert (1539), Richard Chancellor (1521), Douglas Mawson (1882), and Edward Wilson (1872). After him are Alexander Dalrymple (1737), Francis Crozier (1796), John Biscoe (1794), John Byron (1723), Samuel Baker (1821), and George Bass (1771).

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