1919 - 2008
Sir Edmund Percival Hillary (20 July 1919 – 11 January 2008) was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist. On 29 May 1953, Hillary and Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers confirmed to have reached the summit of Mount Everest. They were part of the ninth British expedition to Everest, led by John Hunt. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edmund Hillary has received more than 6,000,259 page views. His biography is available in 115 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 113 in 2019). Edmund Hillary is the most popular mountaineer, the 2nd most popular biography from New Zealand and the most popular New Zealander Mountaineer.
Edmund Hillary is most famous for being the first person to reach the summit of Mount Everest. He and his Nepalese Sherpa guide, Tenzing Norgay, reached the summit on May 29, 1953.
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Among mountaineers, Edmund Hillary ranks 1 out of 45. After him are Reinhold Messner, Tenzing Norgay, Heinrich Harrer, George Mallory, Jerzy Kukuczka, Junko Tabei, Horace Bénédict de Saussure, Hermann Buhl, Edward Whymper, Wanda Rutkiewicz, and Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi.
1919 - 2008
HPI: 73.20
Rank: 1
1944 - Present
HPI: 70.91
Rank: 2
1914 - 1986
HPI: 70.53
Rank: 3
1912 - 2006
HPI: 70.20
Rank: 4
1886 - 1924
HPI: 65.56
Rank: 5
1948 - 1989
HPI: 63.16
Rank: 6
1939 - 2016
HPI: 62.53
Rank: 7
1740 - 1799
HPI: 61.18
Rank: 8
1924 - 1957
HPI: 60.32
Rank: 9
1840 - 1911
HPI: 60.26
Rank: 10
1943 - 1992
HPI: 59.36
Rank: 11
1873 - 1933
HPI: 59.06
Rank: 12
Among people born in 1919, Edmund Hillary ranks 5. Before him are Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Mikhail Kalashnikov, Eva Perón, and J. D. Salinger. After him are Doris Lessing, Desmond Doss, Primo Levi, Zhao Ziyang, Giulio Andreotti, Margot Fonteyn, and Lino Ventura. Among people deceased in 2008, Edmund Hillary ranks 5. Before him are Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Yves Saint Laurent, Bobby Fischer, and Paul Newman. After him are Chinghiz Aitmatov, Arthur C. Clarke, Irena Sendler, Suharto, Samuel P. Huntington, Charlton Heston, and Albert Hofmann.
1919 - 1980
HPI: 77.95
Rank: 1
1919 - 2013
HPI: 76.61
Rank: 2
1919 - 1952
HPI: 74.99
Rank: 3
1919 - 2010
HPI: 73.35
Rank: 4
1919 - 2008
HPI: 73.20
Rank: 5
1919 - 2013
HPI: 71.31
Rank: 6
1919 - 2006
HPI: 70.38
Rank: 7
1919 - 1987
HPI: 70.19
Rank: 8
1919 - 2005
HPI: 66.61
Rank: 9
1919 - 2013
HPI: 66.41
Rank: 10
1919 - 1991
HPI: 66.30
Rank: 11
1919 - 1987
HPI: 66.08
Rank: 12
1918 - 2008
HPI: 76.67
Rank: 1
1936 - 2008
HPI: 74.52
Rank: 2
1943 - 2008
HPI: 73.76
Rank: 3
1925 - 2008
HPI: 73.22
Rank: 4
1919 - 2008
HPI: 73.20
Rank: 5
1928 - 2008
HPI: 72.29
Rank: 6
1917 - 2008
HPI: 72.08
Rank: 7
1910 - 2008
HPI: 71.83
Rank: 8
1921 - 2008
HPI: 71.78
Rank: 9
1927 - 2008
HPI: 71.60
Rank: 10
1923 - 2008
HPI: 71.36
Rank: 11
1906 - 2008
HPI: 71.17
Rank: 12
Among people born in New Zealand, Edmund Hillary ranks 2 out of 248. Before him are Ernest Rutherford (1871). After him are Russell Crowe (1964), Maurice Wilkins (1916), Bruce McLaren (1937), Peter Jackson (1961), Denny Hulme (1936), Katherine Mansfield (1888), Burt Munro (1899), Wallace Fard Muhammad (1893), Jane Campion (1954), and Martin Campbell (1943).
1871 - 1937
HPI: 80.84
Rank: 1
1919 - 2008
HPI: 73.20
Rank: 2
1964 - Present
HPI: 68.40
Rank: 3
1916 - 2004
HPI: 65.93
Rank: 4
1937 - 1970
HPI: 65.34
Rank: 5
1961 - Present
HPI: 63.86
Rank: 6
1936 - 1992
HPI: 61.15
Rank: 7
1888 - 1923
HPI: 61.13
Rank: 8
1899 - 1978
HPI: 59.45
Rank: 9
1893 - 1934
HPI: 59.26
Rank: 10
1954 - Present
HPI: 58.78
Rank: 11
1943 - Present
HPI: 58.67
Rank: 12
Among mountaineers born in New Zealand, Edmund Hillary ranks 1. After him are Rob Hall (1961).