1701 - 1774
Charles Marie de La Condamine (28 January 1701 – 4 February 1774) was a French explorer, geographer, and mathematician. He spent ten years in territory which is now Ecuador, measuring the length of a degree of latitude at the equator and preparing the first map of the Amazon region based on astro-geodetic observations. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Marie de La Condamine has received more than 150,398 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Charles Marie de La Condamine is the 86th most popular explorer (down from 81st in 2019), the 1,093rd most popular biography from France (down from 1,081st in 2019) and the 9th most popular French Explorer.
A French explorer and mathematician, Charles Marie de la Condamine is most famous for his expedition to Peru and Colombia in 1735-1736, during which he measured the length of a degree of latitude at the equator.
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Among explorers, Charles Marie de La Condamine ranks 86 out of 405. Before him are Ármin Vámbéry, Stepan Makarov, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Bjarni Herjólfsson, Yaqut al-Hamawi, and Jeanne Baret. After him are Juan Díaz de Solís, Sebastian Cabot, Adam Johann von Krusenstern, Jean de Béthencourt, Diogo Dias, and Heinrich Barth.
1832 - 1913
HPI: 61.86
Rank: 80
1848 - 1904
HPI: 61.83
Rank: 81
1488 - 1559
HPI: 61.80
Rank: 82
966 - 1000
HPI: 61.73
Rank: 83
1179 - 1229
HPI: 61.70
Rank: 84
1740 - 1807
HPI: 61.64
Rank: 85
1701 - 1774
HPI: 61.57
Rank: 86
1470 - 1516
HPI: 61.54
Rank: 87
1484 - 1557
HPI: 61.49
Rank: 88
1770 - 1846
HPI: 61.11
Rank: 89
1362 - 1425
HPI: 61.10
Rank: 90
1450 - 1500
HPI: 61.08
Rank: 91
1821 - 1865
HPI: 61.06
Rank: 92
Among people born in 1701, Charles Marie de La Condamine ranks 5. Before him are Anders Celsius, Anna Magdalena Bach, Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia, and Maria Amalia of Austria. After him are Pietro Longhi, Sharaku, Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, Count of Maurepas, Alvise Giovanni Mocenigo, Johan Agrell, Dmitry Laptev, and Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim. Among people deceased in 1774, Charles Marie de La Condamine ranks 4. Before him are Louis XV of France, Pope Clement XIV, and François Quesnay. After him are Niccolò Jommelli, Robert Clive, Countess Palatine Caroline of Zweibrücken, Duke Anthony Ulrich of Brunswick, Jacques-François Blondel, Oliver Goldsmith, Countess Caroline of Nassau-Saarbrücken, and Florian Leopold Gassmann.
1701 - 1744
HPI: 79.08
Rank: 1
1701 - 1760
HPI: 66.32
Rank: 2
1701 - 1773
HPI: 64.09
Rank: 3
1701 - 1756
HPI: 63.80
Rank: 4
1701 - 1774
HPI: 61.57
Rank: 5
1701 - 1785
HPI: 58.98
Rank: 6
1701 - 1801
HPI: 56.92
Rank: 7
1701 - 1781
HPI: 55.05
Rank: 8
1701 - 1778
HPI: 53.76
Rank: 9
1701 - 1765
HPI: 51.74
Rank: 10
1701 - 1771
HPI: 51.28
Rank: 11
1701 - 1790
HPI: 50.43
Rank: 12
1710 - 1774
HPI: 81.76
Rank: 1
1705 - 1774
HPI: 74.94
Rank: 2
1694 - 1774
HPI: 72.55
Rank: 3
1701 - 1774
HPI: 61.57
Rank: 4
1714 - 1774
HPI: 60.83
Rank: 5
1725 - 1774
HPI: 60.20
Rank: 6
1721 - 1774
HPI: 58.69
Rank: 7
1714 - 1774
HPI: 57.19
Rank: 8
1705 - 1774
HPI: 56.14
Rank: 9
1728 - 1774
HPI: 55.74
Rank: 10
1704 - 1774
HPI: 55.12
Rank: 11
1729 - 1774
HPI: 53.86
Rank: 12
Among people born in France, Charles Marie de La Condamine ranks 1,093 out of 6,011. Before him are Daniel Cohn-Bendit (1945), Bruno Cremer (1929), Jules Renard (1864), Agnes of Poitou (1025), Claude-Louis Navier (1785), and Alexandra David-Néel (1868). After him are Marie François Xavier Bichat (1771), Nicolas Chauvin (1790), Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (1838), Charles Nodier (1780), Manu Chao (1961), and Louis Antoine, Duke of Enghien (1772).
1945 - Present
HPI: 61.62
Rank: 1,087
1929 - 2010
HPI: 61.60
Rank: 1,088
1864 - 1910
HPI: 61.59
Rank: 1,089
1025 - 1077
HPI: 61.58
Rank: 1,090
1785 - 1836
HPI: 61.58
Rank: 1,091
1868 - 1969
HPI: 61.58
Rank: 1,092
1701 - 1774
HPI: 61.57
Rank: 1,093
1771 - 1802
HPI: 61.57
Rank: 1,094
1790 - 1900
HPI: 61.56
Rank: 1,095
1838 - 1889
HPI: 61.54
Rank: 1,096
1780 - 1844
HPI: 61.53
Rank: 1,097
1961 - Present
HPI: 61.52
Rank: 1,098
1772 - 1804
HPI: 61.50
Rank: 1,099
Among explorers born in France, Charles Marie de La Condamine ranks 9. Before him are Pytheas (-380), Louis Antoine de Bougainville (1729), Samuel de Champlain (1567), Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse (1741), Jules Dumont d'Urville (1790), and Jeanne Baret (1740). After him are Jean de Béthencourt (1362), René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (1643), Jean Chardin (1643), Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier (1705), Sophie Blanchard (1778), and Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec (1734).
380 BC - 310 BC
HPI: 69.15
Rank: 3
1729 - 1811
HPI: 65.43
Rank: 4
1567 - 1635
HPI: 64.39
Rank: 5
1741 - 1788
HPI: 64.11
Rank: 6
1790 - 1842
HPI: 62.48
Rank: 7
1740 - 1807
HPI: 61.64
Rank: 8
1701 - 1774
HPI: 61.57
Rank: 9
1362 - 1425
HPI: 61.10
Rank: 10
1643 - 1687
HPI: 58.00
Rank: 11
1643 - 1713
HPI: 57.96
Rank: 12
1705 - 1786
HPI: 56.58
Rank: 13
1778 - 1819
HPI: 56.18
Rank: 14
1734 - 1797
HPI: 56.09
Rank: 15