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Chris McCandless

1968 - 1992

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Christopher Johnson McCandless (; February 12, 1968 – c. August 1992), also known by his pseudonym "Alexander Supertramp", was an American adventurer who sought an increasingly nomadic lifestyle as he grew up. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Chris McCandless has received more than 7,964,984 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia. Chris McCandless is the 312th most popular explorer (down from 235th in 2019), the 4,508th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,395th in 2019) and the 21st most popular American Explorer.

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  • 51.51

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.74

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.03

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Chris McCandless ranks 312 out of 498. Before him are Ludwig Leichhardt, Edward S. Curtis, Helmer Hanssen, Francis Younghusband, Sebastián Vizcaíno, and Friedrich Gerhard Rohlfs. After him are Francisco de Ulloa, Ivan Papanin, Pyotr Kozlov, Roy Chapman Andrews, Nathaniel Palmer, and Hermann Wissmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1968, Chris McCandless ranks 104. Before him are Évariste Ndayishimiye, Daniel Dae Kim, Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Cuba Gooding Jr., Ramush Haradinaj, and Raghad Hussein. After him are Mauro Silva, Timothy Olyphant, Rosalinda Celentano, D'arcy Wretzky, Jorja Fox, and Frédéric Diefenthal. Among people deceased in 1992, Chris McCandless ranks 135. Before him are Juanito, Sándor Veress, Lenny Montana, Machiko Hasegawa, Wilfried Dietrich, and Karl Deutsch. After him are Marsha P. Johnson, Jack Arnold, Harald Sæverud, Sylvain Arend, Piotr Jaroszewicz, and Arthur Cronquist.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Chris McCandless ranks 4,508 out of 20,380. Before him are Eric Allin Cornell (1961), George Duke (1946), Brian Keith (1921), Stella Stevens (1936), Paul Kantner (1941), and Eric Betzig (1960). After him are Gilbert Gottfried (1955), Link Wray (1929), Moe Tucker (1944), Adam Riess (1969), Bryce Dallas Howard (1981), and Antonin Scalia (1936).

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Among EXPLORERS In United States

Among explorers born in United States, Chris McCandless ranks 21. Before him are Jim Bridger (1804), Charles Wilkes (1798), Ada Blackjack (1898), Charles Francis Hall (1821), Meriwether Lewis (1774), and Edward S. Curtis (1868). After him are Roy Chapman Andrews (1884), Nathaniel Palmer (1799), William Clark (1770), Louise Arner Boyd (1887), John C. Frémont (1813), and John Wesley Powell (1834).

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