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Alexander Mackenzie

1764 - 1820

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Sir Alexander Mackenzie (c. 1764 – 12 March 1820) was a Scottish explorer and fur trader known for accomplishing the first crossing of North America in 1793. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Mackenzie has received more than 114,874 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Alexander Mackenzie is the 144th most popular explorer (down from 116th in 2019), the 1,266th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,010th in 2019) and the 20th most popular British Explorer.

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  • 35

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Alexander Mackenzie ranks 144 out of 405Before him are Francisco Hernández de Córdoba, Mikhail Lazarev, Martin Frobisher, Philip Johan von Strahlenberg, Emin Pasha, and Sebastián de Belalcázar. After him are Otto Sverdrup, Scylax of Caryanda, Gaspar Corte-Real, Vladimir Arsenyev, Hans Staden, and Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1764, Alexander Mackenzie ranks 7Before him are Élisabeth of France, Ann Radcliffe, Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno, and José Gervasio Artigas. After him are Fletcher Christian, Sophie de Condorcet, Duchess Augusta of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Princess Maria Carolina of Savoy, Johann Gottfried Schadow, and Nikolai Rezanov. Among people deceased in 1820, Alexander Mackenzie ranks 16Before him are Henri Christophe, Gia Long, Wilhelmina of Prussia, Princess of Orange, Manuel Belgrano, Joseph Banks, and Princess Wilhelmina Caroline of Denmark. After him are Jean-Lambert Tallien, Clement Mary Hofbauer, Augustin Barruel, Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia, Nguyễn Du, and Daniel Boone.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Alexander Mackenzie ranks 1,266 out of 7,765Before him are Louis Lucien Bonaparte (1813), Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick (1475), Alistair MacLean (1922), Charles Frederick Worth (1825), Thomas Reid (1710), and George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon (1827). After him are William Stuart-Houston (1911), Thomas Simpson (1710), Robert Fludd (1574), Dusty Springfield (1939), Joseph Paxton (1803), and Michael Ventris (1922).

Among EXPLORERS In United Kingdom

Among explorers born in United Kingdom, Alexander Mackenzie ranks 20Before him are Robert FitzRoy (1805), Mary Kingsley (1862), Thomas Cavendish (1560), George Vancouver (1757), Isabella Bird (1831), and Martin Frobisher (1535). After him are Samuel Wallis (1728), Matthew Flinders (1774), James Bruce (1730), John Rolfe (1585), Mark Sykes (1879), and Lady Hester Stanhope (1776).