1480 - 1521
Ferdinand Magellan ( or ; Portuguese: Fernão de Magalhães, IPA: [fɨɾˈnɐ̃w dɨ mɐɣɐˈʎɐ̃jʃ]; Spanish: Fernando de Magallanes, IPA: [feɾˈnando ðe maɣaˈʎanes]; c. 1480 – 27 April 1521) was a Portuguese explorer who organised the Spanish expedition to the East Indies from 1519 to 1522, resulting in the first circumnavigation of the Earth, which was completed after his death in the Philippines by Juan Sebastián Elcano. Born around 1480 into a family of minor Portuguese nobility, Magellan became a skilled sailor and naval officer and was in service of the Portuguese crown in Asia. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ferdinand Magellan has received more than 5,630,074 page views. His biography is available in 154 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 149 in 2019). Ferdinand Magellan is the 3rd most popular explorer, the most popular biography from Portugal and the most popular Portuguese Explorer.
Ferdinand Magellan is most famous for being the first person to circumnavigate the globe.
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Among explorers, Ferdinand Magellan ranks 3 out of 405. Before him are Marco Polo and Christopher Columbus. After him are Vasco da Gama, Amerigo Vespucci, Bartolomeu Dias, Hernán Cortés, James Cook, Roald Amundsen, Ibn Battuta, Zheng He, and Francis Drake.
1254 - 1324
HPI: 95.23
Rank: 1
1451 - 1506
HPI: 94.24
Rank: 2
1480 - 1521
HPI: 93.48
Rank: 3
1460 - 1524
HPI: 92.45
Rank: 4
1454 - 1512
HPI: 87.82
Rank: 5
1450 - 1500
HPI: 87.21
Rank: 6
1485 - 1547
HPI: 86.53
Rank: 7
1728 - 1779
HPI: 86.48
Rank: 8
1872 - 1928
HPI: 86.13
Rank: 9
1304 - 1368
HPI: 85.70
Rank: 10
1387 - 1433
HPI: 85.13
Rank: 11
1540 - 1596
HPI: 84.23
Rank: 12
Among people born in 1480, Ferdinand Magellan ranks 1. After him are Lucrezia Borgia, Matthias Grünewald, Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy, Albrecht Altdorfer, Johann Georg Faust, Lorenzo Lotto, Salaì, Joachim Patinir, Saint Cajetan, Götz von Berlichingen, and Philibert II, Duke of Savoy. Among people deceased in 1521, Ferdinand Magellan ranks 1. After him are Pope Leo X, Manuel I of Portugal, Josquin des Prez, Juan Ponce de León, Zhengde Emperor, Sebastian Brant, Christina of Saxony, Suzanne, Duchess of Bourbon, Leonardo Loredan, Francisco Serrão, and Raffaele Riario.
1480 - 1521
HPI: 93.48
Rank: 1
1480 - 1519
HPI: 83.61
Rank: 2
1480 - 1528
HPI: 78.98
Rank: 3
1480 - 1530
HPI: 78.29
Rank: 4
1480 - 1538
HPI: 76.45
Rank: 5
1480 - 1541
HPI: 74.78
Rank: 6
1480 - 1556
HPI: 72.54
Rank: 7
1480 - 1524
HPI: 72.11
Rank: 8
1480 - 1524
HPI: 71.87
Rank: 9
1480 - 1547
HPI: 71.67
Rank: 10
1480 - 1562
HPI: 71.23
Rank: 11
1480 - 1504
HPI: 70.68
Rank: 12
1480 - 1521
HPI: 93.48
Rank: 1
1475 - 1521
HPI: 82.41
Rank: 2
1469 - 1521
HPI: 78.35
Rank: 3
1450 - 1521
HPI: 78.24
Rank: 4
1460 - 1521
HPI: 77.56
Rank: 5
1491 - 1521
HPI: 73.69
Rank: 6
1458 - 1521
HPI: 72.09
Rank: 7
1461 - 1521
HPI: 69.76
Rank: 8
1491 - 1521
HPI: 68.26
Rank: 9
1436 - 1521
HPI: 67.71
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1500 - 1521
HPI: 67.22
Rank: 11
1461 - 1521
HPI: 64.18
Rank: 12
Among people born in Portugal, Ferdinand Magellan ranks 1 out of 479. After him are Vasco da Gama (1460), Bartolomeu Dias (1450), Anthony of Padua (1195), José Saramago (1922), Prince Henry the Navigator (1394), António de Oliveira Salazar (1889), Pedro Álvares Cabral (1467), Fernando Pessoa (1888), António Guterres (1949), Manuel I of Portugal (1469), and Afonso I of Portugal (1109).
1480 - 1521
HPI: 93.48
Rank: 1
1460 - 1524
HPI: 92.45
Rank: 2
1450 - 1500
HPI: 87.21
Rank: 3
1195 - 1231
HPI: 84.65
Rank: 4
1922 - 2010
HPI: 82.83
Rank: 5
1394 - 1460
HPI: 82.18
Rank: 6
1889 - 1970
HPI: 81.87
Rank: 7
1467 - 1520
HPI: 80.28
Rank: 8
1888 - 1935
HPI: 80.12
Rank: 9
1949 - Present
HPI: 79.36
Rank: 10
1469 - 1521
HPI: 78.35
Rank: 11
1109 - 1185
HPI: 77.90
Rank: 12
Among explorers born in Portugal, Ferdinand Magellan ranks 1. After him are Vasco da Gama (1460), Bartolomeu Dias (1450), Prince Henry the Navigator (1394), Pedro Álvares Cabral (1467), Diogo Cão (1440), Diego Columbus (1479), Fernão Mendes Pinto (1509), Diogo Dias (1450), Tristão da Cunha (1460), Pêro da Covilhã (1450), and Pedro Fernandes de Queirós (1565).
1480 - 1521
HPI: 93.48
Rank: 1
1460 - 1524
HPI: 92.45
Rank: 2
1450 - 1500
HPI: 87.21
Rank: 3
1394 - 1460
HPI: 82.18
Rank: 4
1467 - 1520
HPI: 80.28
Rank: 5
1440 - 1486
HPI: 72.38
Rank: 6
1479 - 1527
HPI: 70.29
Rank: 7
1509 - 1583
HPI: 69.96
Rank: 8
1450 - 1500
HPI: 69.83
Rank: 9
1460 - 1540
HPI: 69.72
Rank: 10
1450 - 1530
HPI: 69.50
Rank: 11
1565 - 1614
HPI: 69.08
Rank: 12