1454 - 1512
Amerigo Vespucci ( vesp-OO-chee, Italian: [ameˈriːɡo veˈsputtʃi]; 9 March 1451 – 22 February 1512) was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Florence, whose name the term "America" is derived from. Between 1497 and 1504, Vespucci participated in at least two voyages of the Age of Discovery, first on behalf of Spain (1499–1500) and then for Portugal (1501–1502). In 1503 and 1505, two booklets were published under his name, containing colourful descriptions of these explorations and other alleged voyages. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Amerigo Vespucci has received more than 6,038,954 page views. His biography is available in 97 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 94 in 2019). Amerigo Vespucci is the 5th most popular explorer, the 21st most popular biography from Italy (up from 25th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Italian Explorer.
Amerigo Vespucci is most famous for being the first person to realize that the continents of South America and North America were not connected, but were in fact two separate continents.
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Among explorers, Amerigo Vespucci ranks 5 out of 405. Before him are Marco Polo, Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan, and Vasco da Gama. After him are Bartolomeu Dias, Roald Amundsen, Ibn Battuta, James Cook, Hernán Cortés, Zheng He, and Francis Drake.
1254 - 1324
HPI: 94.60
Rank: 1
1451 - 1506
HPI: 93.18
Rank: 2
1480 - 1521
HPI: 91.69
Rank: 3
1460 - 1524
HPI: 90.25
Rank: 4
1454 - 1512
HPI: 84.72
Rank: 5
1450 - 1500
HPI: 83.59
Rank: 6
1872 - 1928
HPI: 82.81
Rank: 7
1304 - 1368
HPI: 82.35
Rank: 8
1728 - 1779
HPI: 82.31
Rank: 9
1485 - 1547
HPI: 81.70
Rank: 10
1387 - 1433
HPI: 80.31
Rank: 11
1540 - 1596
HPI: 79.36
Rank: 12
Among people born in 1454, Amerigo Vespucci ranks 1. After him are Catherine Cornaro, Pinturicchio, Poliziano, Bogislaw X, Duke of Pomerania, and Joanna of Aragon, Queen of Naples. Among people deceased in 1512, Amerigo Vespucci ranks 1. After him are Bayezid II, Gaston of Foix, Duke of Nemours, Sophia Jagiellon, Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Svante Nilsson, Alessandro Achillini, and Antoine Brumel.
1454 - 1512
HPI: 84.72
Rank: 1
1454 - 1510
HPI: 65.88
Rank: 2
1454 - 1513
HPI: 65.23
Rank: 3
1454 - 1494
HPI: 64.46
Rank: 4
1454 - 1523
HPI: 53.94
Rank: 5
1454 - 1517
HPI: 53.38
Rank: 6
1454 - 1512
HPI: 84.72
Rank: 1
1447 - 1512
HPI: 79.74
Rank: 2
1489 - 1512
HPI: 57.89
Rank: 3
1464 - 1512
HPI: 55.89
Rank: 4
1460 - 1512
HPI: 54.69
Rank: 5
1463 - 1512
HPI: 53.70
Rank: 6
1460 - 1512
HPI: 52.07
Rank: 7
Among people born in Italy, Amerigo Vespucci ranks 21 out of 4,668. Before him are Giuseppe Verdi (1813), Cicero (-106), Virgil (-70), Commodus (161), Giordano Bruno (1548), and Francis of Assisi (1182). After him are Caravaggio (1571), Nero (37), Ovid (-43), Sandro Botticelli (1445), Marcus Aurelius (121), and Petrarch (1304).
1813 - 1901
HPI: 86.57
Rank: 15
106 BC - 43 BC
HPI: 86.32
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70 BC - 19 BC
HPI: 85.91
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161 - 192
HPI: 85.73
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1548 - 1600
HPI: 85.43
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1182 - 1226
HPI: 84.80
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1454 - 1512
HPI: 84.72
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1571 - 1610
HPI: 84.46
Rank: 22
37 - 68
HPI: 84.29
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43 BC - 17
HPI: 84.24
Rank: 24
1445 - 1510
HPI: 83.90
Rank: 25
121 - 180
HPI: 83.70
Rank: 26
1304 - 1374
HPI: 83.55
Rank: 27
Among explorers born in Italy, Amerigo Vespucci ranks 3. Before him are Marco Polo (1254) and Christopher Columbus (1451). After him are John Cabot (1450), Giovanni da Verrazzano (1485), Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1778), Antonio Pigafetta (1492), Sebastian Cabot (1484), Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza (1852), Bartholomew Columbus (1460), Alvise Cadamosto (1432), and Lancelotto Malocello (1270).
1254 - 1324
HPI: 94.60
Rank: 1
1451 - 1506
HPI: 93.18
Rank: 2
1454 - 1512
HPI: 84.72
Rank: 3
1450 - 1498
HPI: 69.26
Rank: 4
1485 - 1528
HPI: 65.62
Rank: 5
1778 - 1823
HPI: 64.05
Rank: 6
1492 - 1531
HPI: 63.11
Rank: 7
1484 - 1557
HPI: 61.49
Rank: 8
1852 - 1905
HPI: 60.92
Rank: 9
1460 - 1515
HPI: 60.36
Rank: 10
1432 - 1488
HPI: 58.51
Rank: 11
1270 - 1336
HPI: 56.04
Rank: 12