1676 - 1721
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 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 1,450,064 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 40 in 2019). Alexander Selkirk is the 110th most popular military personnel (down from 5th in 2019), the 243rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 231st 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, Alexander Selkirk ranks 110 out of 1,468. Before him are Klaus Barbie, Nestor Makhno, Gaius Julius Caesar, Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas, Zhang Fei, and Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist. After him are Eli Cohen, Abu Muslim, Cimon, Semyon Timoshenko, Erich von Falkenhayn, and Narses.
1913 - 1991
HPI: 69.82
Rank: 104
1888 - 1934
HPI: 69.68
Rank: 105
135 BC - 85 BC
HPI: 69.64
Rank: 106
595 - 674
HPI: 69.64
Rank: 107
167 - 221
HPI: 69.61
Rank: 108
1881 - 1954
HPI: 69.54
Rank: 109
1676 - 1721
HPI: 69.52
Rank: 110
1924 - 1965
HPI: 69.48
Rank: 111
718 - 755
HPI: 69.42
Rank: 112
510 BC - 450 BC
HPI: 69.32
Rank: 113
1895 - 1970
HPI: 69.31
Rank: 114
1861 - 1922
HPI: 69.24
Rank: 115
478 - 574
HPI: 69.17
Rank: 116
Among people born in 1676, Alexander Selkirk ranks 1. After him are Frederick I of Sweden, Francis II Rákóczi, Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans, Robert Walpole, Theresa Kunegunda Sobieska, Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, Philip Johan von Strahlenberg, Louise Bénédicte de Bourbon, Jacopo Riccati, and Stanisław Poniatowski. 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, Marguerite Louise d'Orléans, Anton Florian, Prince of Liechtenstein, Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, Johann Christoph Bach, Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, Edward Colston, and Elihu Yale.
1676 - 1721
HPI: 69.52
Rank: 1
1676 - 1751
HPI: 68.24
Rank: 2
1676 - 1735
HPI: 67.42
Rank: 3
1676 - 1744
HPI: 67.42
Rank: 4
1676 - 1745
HPI: 66.60
Rank: 5
1676 - 1730
HPI: 61.11
Rank: 6
1676 - 1747
HPI: 58.12
Rank: 7
1676 - 1749
HPI: 57.20
Rank: 8
1676 - 1747
HPI: 57.17
Rank: 9
1676 - 1753
HPI: 56.00
Rank: 10
1676 - 1754
HPI: 55.63
Rank: 11
1676 - 1762
HPI: 55.10
Rank: 12
1649 - 1721
HPI: 74.73
Rank: 1
1684 - 1721
HPI: 71.89
Rank: 2
1676 - 1721
HPI: 69.52
Rank: 3
1695 - 1721
HPI: 66.46
Rank: 4
1680 - 1721
HPI: 60.64
Rank: 5
1645 - 1721
HPI: 59.46
Rank: 6
1656 - 1721
HPI: 59.03
Rank: 7
1667 - 1721
HPI: 57.26
Rank: 8
1671 - 1721
HPI: 57.25
Rank: 9
1665 - 1721
HPI: 52.81
Rank: 10
1636 - 1721
HPI: 52.77
Rank: 11
1649 - 1721
HPI: 50.54
Rank: 12
Among people born in United Kingdom, Alexander Selkirk ranks 243 out of 7,765. Before him are Harold Wilson (1916), Edward Burnett Tylor (1832), William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (1824), John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (1842), John Law (1671), and Ken Loach (1936). After him are Clement Attlee (1883), James George Frazer (1854), David Gilmour (1946), Bobby Charlton (1937), Timothy Dalton (1946), and Roger Waters (1943).
1916 - 1995
HPI: 69.66
Rank: 237
1832 - 1917
HPI: 69.65
Rank: 238
1824 - 1907
HPI: 69.64
Rank: 239
1842 - 1919
HPI: 69.62
Rank: 240
1671 - 1729
HPI: 69.62
Rank: 241
1936 - Present
HPI: 69.54
Rank: 242
1676 - 1721
HPI: 69.52
Rank: 243
1883 - 1967
HPI: 69.51
Rank: 244
1854 - 1941
HPI: 69.50
Rank: 245
1946 - Present
HPI: 69.50
Rank: 246
1937 - 2023
HPI: 69.49
Rank: 247
1946 - Present
HPI: 69.47
Rank: 248
1943 - Present
HPI: 69.46
Rank: 249
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), Bernard Montgomery (1887), and Edward Smith (1850). After him are Rudolf Abel (1903), Gertrude Bell (1868), John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (1650), Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (1738), John Franklin (1786), and Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby (1861).
1270 - 1305
HPI: 78.17
Rank: 1
1857 - 1941
HPI: 77.50
Rank: 2
1758 - 1805
HPI: 74.60
Rank: 3
1888 - 1935
HPI: 73.17
Rank: 4
1887 - 1976
HPI: 71.76
Rank: 5
1850 - 1912
HPI: 71.44
Rank: 6
1676 - 1721
HPI: 69.52
Rank: 7
1903 - 1971
HPI: 67.52
Rank: 8
1868 - 1926
HPI: 67.52
Rank: 9
1650 - 1722
HPI: 66.13
Rank: 10
1738 - 1805
HPI: 63.79
Rank: 11
1786 - 1847
HPI: 63.20
Rank: 12
1861 - 1936
HPI: 61.36
Rank: 13