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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 94,696 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Alexander Gordon Laing is the 292nd most popular explorer (up from 304th in 2019), the 2,492nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,572nd in 2019) and the 35th most popular British Explorer.

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  • 50.54

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.28

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.03

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Alexander Gordon Laing ranks 292 out of 405. Before him are Jens Munk, Grigory Potanin, Lourenço Marques, Peter Freuchen, Sebastián Vizcaíno, and Johann Anton Güldenstädt. After him are Gonçalo Velho Cabral, Bertrand Piccard, Meriwether Lewis, Pierre Poivre, Albert von Le Coq, and Knut Haugland.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1794, Alexander Gordon Laing ranks 36. Before him are Konstantin Thon, Heinrich Wilhelm Schott, Joseph Lebeau, Wei Yuan, Princess Amalie of Saxony, and Edward Robinson. After him are Jeanne Villepreux-Power, Carl Borivoj Presl, Leopold Zunz, Achille Valenciennes, Gerrit Schimmelpenninck, and Eduard Friedrich Eversmann. Among people deceased in 1826, Alexander Gordon Laing ranks 39. Before him are Jens Baggesen, Nikolay Rumyantsev, Lucia Migliaccio, Georg Franz Hoffmann, Conrad Malte-Brun, and Kondraty Ryleyev. After him are Stanisław Staszic, Johann Heinrich Voss, Jacob Hübner, John Farey Sr., Ferdinand Bauer, and Nicolas Fuss.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Alexander Gordon Laing ranks 2,492 out of 7,765. Before him are Fatboy Slim (1963), Corin Redgrave (1939), Egon Pearson (1895), Banastre Tarleton (1754), Shirley Eaton (1937), and Donald Watson (1910). After him are Francis Buchanan-Hamilton (1762), Steve Bruce (1960), David Burke (1934), Pete Burns (1959), Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton (1735), and Terry-Thomas (1911).

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Among EXPLORERS In United Kingdom

Among explorers born in United Kingdom, Alexander Gordon Laing ranks 35. Before him are Samuel Baker (1821), William Parry (1790), Anthony Jenkinson (1529), Richard Chancellor (1521), Francis Crozier (1796), and Alexander Dalrymple (1737). After him are Humphrey Gilbert (1539), Edward John Eyre (1815), Alexander Burnes (1805), John Biscoe (1794), William Smith (1790), and Frederick William Beechey (1796).

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