276 BC - 194 BC
Eratosthenes of Cyrene (; Greek: Ἐρατοσθένης ὁ Κυρηναῖος, romanized: Eratosthénēs ho Kurēnaĩos, IPA: [eratostʰénɛːs]; c. 276 BC – c. 195/194 BC) was a Greek polymath: a mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, and music theorist. He was a man of learning, becoming the chief librarian at the Library of Alexandria. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eratosthenes has received more than 2,405,775 page views. His biography is available in 90 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 89 in 2019). Eratosthenes is the most popular geographer, the most popular biography from Libya and the most popular Libyan Geographer.
Eratosthenes is most famous for measuring the circumference of the Earth by comparing the shadows of two sticks in two different locations.
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Among geographers, Eratosthenes ranks 1 out of 67. After him are Strabo, Alexander von Humboldt, Gerardus Mercator, Muhammad al-Idrisi, Piri Reis, Pausanias, Abraham Ortelius, George Everest, Martin Waldseemüller, Ferdinand von Richthofen, and Wladimir Köppen.
276 BC - 194 BC
HPI: 86.12
Rank: 1
64 BC - 23
HPI: 84.11
Rank: 2
1769 - 1859
HPI: 83.16
Rank: 3
1512 - 1594
HPI: 80.88
Rank: 4
1100 - 1165
HPI: 79.82
Rank: 5
1470 - 1554
HPI: 79.66
Rank: 6
110 - 180
HPI: 78.41
Rank: 7
1527 - 1598
HPI: 76.13
Rank: 8
1790 - 1866
HPI: 75.28
Rank: 9
1470 - 1520
HPI: 74.99
Rank: 10
1833 - 1905
HPI: 73.72
Rank: 11
1846 - 1940
HPI: 73.52
Rank: 12
Among people born in 276 BC, Eratosthenes ranks 1. Among people deceased in 194 BC, Eratosthenes ranks 1.
Among people born in Libya, Eratosthenes ranks 1 out of 59. After him are Muammar Gaddafi (1942), Septimius Severus (145), Arius (256), Mark the Evangelist (10), Aristippus (-434), Simon of Cyrene (-100), Callimachus (-310), Idris of Libya (1889), Omar Mukhtar (1858), Khalifa Haftar (1943), and Pope Victor I (100).
276 BC - 194 BC
HPI: 86.12
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1942 - 2011
HPI: 85.44
Rank: 2
145 - 211
HPI: 83.38
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256 - 336
HPI: 82.49
Rank: 4
10 - 68
HPI: 82.38
Rank: 5
434 BC - 355 BC
HPI: 79.22
Rank: 6
100 BC - 100
HPI: 77.43
Rank: 7
310 BC - 240 BC
HPI: 76.15
Rank: 8
1889 - 1983
HPI: 76.13
Rank: 9
1858 - 1931
HPI: 75.62
Rank: 10
1943 - Present
HPI: 75.57
Rank: 11
100 - 199
HPI: 75.11
Rank: 12
Among geographers born in Libya, Eratosthenes ranks 1.