1813 - 1873
David Livingstone (; 19 March 1813 – 1 May 1873) was a Scottish physician, Congregationalist, pioneer Christian missionary with the London Missionary Society, and an explorer in Africa. Livingstone was married to Mary Moffat Livingstone, from the prominent 18th-century Moffatt missionary family. Livingstone came to have a mythic status that operated on a number of interconnected levels: Protestant missionary martyr, working-class "rags-to-riches" inspirational story, scientific investigator and explorer, imperial reformer, anti-slavery crusader, and advocate of British commercial and colonial expansion. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Livingstone has received more than 3,967,765 page views. His biography is available in 85 different languages on Wikipedia. David Livingstone is the 15th most popular explorer (up from 18th in 2019), the 71st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 88th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular British Explorer.
David Livingstone is most famous for his exploration of the African continent and his discovery of the Victoria Falls.
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Among explorers, David Livingstone ranks 15 out of 405. Before him are James Cook, Hernán Cortés, Zheng He, Francis Drake, Francisco Pizarro, and Abel Tasman. After him are Prince Henry the Navigator, Fridtjof Nansen, Erik the Red, Xuanzang, Jacques Cousteau, and Pedro Álvares Cabral.
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
1478 - 1541
HPI: 79.19
Rank: 13
1603 - 1659
HPI: 77.10
Rank: 14
1813 - 1873
HPI: 76.77
Rank: 15
1394 - 1460
HPI: 76.75
Rank: 16
1861 - 1930
HPI: 75.22
Rank: 17
950 - 1003
HPI: 75.07
Rank: 18
602 - 664
HPI: 75.05
Rank: 19
1910 - 1997
HPI: 75.04
Rank: 20
1467 - 1520
HPI: 74.85
Rank: 21
Among people born in 1813, David Livingstone ranks 4. Before him are Giuseppe Verdi, Richard Wagner, and Søren Kierkegaard. After him are Claude Bernard, Ivar Aasen, Georg Büchner, John Snow, Henry Bessemer, Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, Charles-Valentin Alkan, and Franz Miklosich. Among people deceased in 1873, David Livingstone ranks 3. Before him are Napoleon III and John Stuart Mill. After him are Justus von Liebig, Caroline Augusta of Bavaria, John of Saxony, Alessandro Manzoni, Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria, Franz Xaver Winterhalter, Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Fyodor Tyutchev, and Vasil Levski.
1813 - 1901
HPI: 86.57
Rank: 1
1813 - 1883
HPI: 85.34
Rank: 2
1813 - 1855
HPI: 81.07
Rank: 3
1813 - 1873
HPI: 76.77
Rank: 4
1813 - 1878
HPI: 68.84
Rank: 5
1813 - 1896
HPI: 64.86
Rank: 6
1813 - 1837
HPI: 64.56
Rank: 7
1813 - 1858
HPI: 63.12
Rank: 8
1813 - 1898
HPI: 62.68
Rank: 9
1813 - 1851
HPI: 62.31
Rank: 10
1813 - 1888
HPI: 62.10
Rank: 11
1813 - 1891
HPI: 60.09
Rank: 12
1808 - 1873
HPI: 82.57
Rank: 1
1806 - 1873
HPI: 78.58
Rank: 2
1813 - 1873
HPI: 76.77
Rank: 3
1803 - 1873
HPI: 69.91
Rank: 4
1792 - 1873
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 5
1801 - 1873
HPI: 65.12
Rank: 6
1785 - 1873
HPI: 64.97
Rank: 7
1801 - 1873
HPI: 64.59
Rank: 8
1805 - 1873
HPI: 63.72
Rank: 9
1820 - 1873
HPI: 63.54
Rank: 10
1803 - 1873
HPI: 62.70
Rank: 11
1837 - 1873
HPI: 60.94
Rank: 12
Among people born in United Kingdom, David Livingstone ranks 71 out of 7,765. Before him are Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (1857), Edward VI of England (1537), Lewis Carroll (1832), Alex Ferguson (1941), James VI and I (1566), and Neville Chamberlain (1869). After him are J. M. W. Turner (1775), Edward III of England (1312), Ridley Scott (1937), Edward II of England (1284), William of Ockham (1285), and Harold Harefoot (1016).
1857 - 1941
HPI: 77.50
Rank: 65
1537 - 1553
HPI: 77.36
Rank: 66
1832 - 1898
HPI: 77.31
Rank: 67
1941 - Present
HPI: 77.19
Rank: 68
1566 - 1625
HPI: 77.08
Rank: 69
1869 - 1940
HPI: 76.78
Rank: 70
1813 - 1873
HPI: 76.77
Rank: 71
1775 - 1851
HPI: 76.71
Rank: 72
1312 - 1377
HPI: 76.49
Rank: 73
1937 - Present
HPI: 76.48
Rank: 74
1284 - 1327
HPI: 76.45
Rank: 75
1285 - 1347
HPI: 76.35
Rank: 76
1016 - 1040
HPI: 76.26
Rank: 77
Among explorers born in United Kingdom, David Livingstone ranks 3. Before him are James Cook (1728) and Francis Drake (1540). After him are Henry Morton Stanley (1841), Robert Falcon Scott (1868), William Baffin (1584), Richard Francis Burton (1821), William Adams (1564), Henry Hudson (1570), John Smith (1580), James Clark Ross (1800), and John Davis (1550).
1728 - 1779
HPI: 82.31
Rank: 1
1540 - 1596
HPI: 79.36
Rank: 2
1813 - 1873
HPI: 76.77
Rank: 3
1841 - 1904
HPI: 70.20
Rank: 4
1868 - 1912
HPI: 67.79
Rank: 5
1584 - 1622
HPI: 66.02
Rank: 6
1821 - 1890
HPI: 65.05
Rank: 7
1564 - 1620
HPI: 64.94
Rank: 8
1570 - 1611
HPI: 64.35
Rank: 9
1580 - 1631
HPI: 63.88
Rank: 10
1800 - 1862
HPI: 63.77
Rank: 11
1550 - 1605
HPI: 63.18
Rank: 12