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Daniel Boone

1734 - 1820

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Daniel Boone (November 2 [O.S. October 22], 1734 – September 26, 1820) was an American pioneer and frontiersman whose exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States. He became famous for his exploration and settlement of Kentucky, which was then beyond the western borders of the Thirteen Colonies. In 1775, Boone founded the Wilderness Road through the Cumberland Gap and into Kentucky, in the face of resistance from Native Americans. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Daniel Boone has received more than 6,339,612 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Daniel Boone is the 219th most popular explorer (down from 193rd in 2019), the 3,104th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,769th in 2019) and the 13th most popular American Explorer.

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  • 4.69

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Daniel Boone ranks 219 out of 498. Before him are Duarte Pacheco Pereira, Julius Klaproth, Jan Joosten van Lodensteijn, Carsten Borchgrevink, Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne, and Masabumi Hosono. After him are Jedediah Smith, Ma Huan, Nuno Tristão, Joshua Slocum, Dinis Dias, and Pedro Arias Dávila.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1734, Daniel Boone ranks 20. Before him are George Romney, Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski, Frederick Augustus, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst, Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec, Louis François Joseph, Prince of Conti, and Ueda Akinari. After him are Anton Janša, Nikolai Vasilyeich Repnin, Nicolaas Laurens Burman, Duchess Maria Anna Josepha of Bavaria, Francisco Bayeu y Subías, and Ralph Abercromby. Among people deceased in 1820, Daniel Boone ranks 23. Before him are Augustin Barruel, Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney, Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia, Princess Wilhelmina Caroline of Denmark, Alexander Mackenzie, and Nguyễn Du. After him are Anders Sparrman, Arthur Young, Benjamin West, Princess Adelheid of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym, Gerhard von Kügelgen, and Frederick V, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Daniel Boone ranks 3,104 out of 20,380. Before him are Rob Schneider (1963), Jim Abrahams (1944), Winston Groom (1943), James S. Sherman (1855), George Koval (1913), and Daniel Inouye (1924). After him are Esther Lederberg (1922), Frances Sternhagen (1930), Larry Semon (1889), Annie Proulx (1935), Stephen Cole Kleene (1909), and Raymond Smullyan (1919).

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Among EXPLORERS In United States

Among explorers born in United States, Daniel Boone ranks 13. Before him are Frederick Cook (1865), Don Walsh (1931), Simon Fraser (1776), Jimmie Angel (1899), Lincoln Ellsworth (1880), and George W. De Long (1844). After him are Jedediah Smith (1799), Jim Bridger (1804), Charles Wilkes (1798), Ada Blackjack (1898), Charles Francis Hall (1821), and Meriwether Lewis (1774).

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