MILITARY PERSONNEL

Alexander Selkirk

1676 - 1721

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Alexander Selkirk (1676 – 13 December 1721) was a Scottish privateer and Royal Navy officer who spent four years and four months as a castaway (1704–1709) after being marooned by his captain, initially at his request, on an uninhabited island in the South Pacific Ocean. He survived that ordeal, but died from tropical illness years later while serving as a lieutenant aboard HMS Weymouth off West Africa. Selkirk was an unruly youth and joined buccaneering voyages to the South Pacific during the War of the Spanish Succession. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Selkirk has received more than 1,569,807 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Alexander Selkirk is the 160th most popular military personnel (down from 110th in 2019), the 326th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 243rd in 2019) and the 7th most popular British Military Personnel.

Alexander Selkirk was a Scottish sailor who spent four years as a castaway on an uninhabited island in the South Pacific Ocean.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Alexander Selkirk ranks 160 out of 2,058. Before him are Pittacus of Mytilene, Józef Poniatowski, Alfred von Schlieffen, Semyon Timoshenko, Abraha, and Hermann Fegelein. After him are Joseph Joffre, Louis, Grand Condé, Joachim Peiper, Semyon Budyonny, Anton Denikin, and Matilda of Tuscany.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1676, Alexander Selkirk ranks 2. Before him is Frederick I of Sweden. After him are Francis II Rákóczi, Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans, Robert Walpole, Philip Johan von Strahlenberg, Theresa Kunegunda Sobieska, Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Jacopo Riccati, Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, Leonard of Port Maurice, and Louise Bénédicte de Bourbon. Among people deceased in 1721, Alexander Selkirk ranks 3. Before him are Pope Clement XI, and Jean-Antoine Watteau. After him are Mary Read, Charles Vane, Anton Florian, Prince of Liechtenstein, Marguerite Louise d'Orléans, Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, Johann Christoph Bach, Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, Pierre Daniel Huet, and Elihu Yale.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Alexander Selkirk ranks 326 out of 8,785. Before him are Ian Gillan (1945), Edmund Ironside (993), Edmund I (921), Frederick Soddy (1877), James V of Scotland (1512), and Bonnie Tyler (1951). After him are Alfred North Whitehead (1861), Robbie Coltrane (1950), Halford Mackinder (1861), Graham Greene (1904), Morrissey (1959), and William Hogarth (1697).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, Alexander Selkirk ranks 7. Before him are William Wallace (1270), Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (1857), Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (1758), T. E. Lawrence (1888), Edward Smith (1850), and Bernard Montgomery (1887). After him are John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (1650), Gertrude Bell (1868), Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby (1861), Rudolf Abel (1903), James Paul Moody (1887), and John Franklin (1786).

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