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Ferdinand de Lesseps

1805 - 1894

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Ferdinand Marie, Comte de Lesseps (French: [də lesɛps]; 19 November 1805 – 7 December 1894) was a French diplomat and later developer of the Suez Canal, which in 1869 joined the Mediterranean and Red Seas, substantially reducing sailing distances and times between Europe and East Asia. He attempted to repeat this success with an effort to build a Panama Canal at sea level during the 1880s, but the project was devastated by epidemics of malaria and yellow fever in the area, as well as beset by financial problems, and the planned Lesseps Panama Canal was never completed. Eventually, the project was bought out by the United States, which solved the medical problems and changed the design to a non-sea level canal with locks. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ferdinand de Lesseps has received more than 912,288 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 55 in 2019). Ferdinand de Lesseps is the 10th most popular diplomat (up from 12th in 2019), the 318th most popular biography from France (up from 416th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular French Diplomat.

Ferdinand de Lesseps is most famous for his construction of the Suez Canal in Egypt, which opened in 1869.

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Among DIPLOMATS

Among diplomats, Ferdinand de Lesseps ranks 10 out of 52. Before him are Gaius Marius, Dag Hammarskjöld, Ban Ki-moon, John Jay, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, and Alexandra Kollontai. After him are Raoul Wallenberg, Madeleine Albright, Lucien Bonaparte, Folke Bernadotte, Mohamed ElBaradei, and John R. Bolton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1805, Ferdinand de Lesseps ranks 6. Before him are Hans Christian Andersen, Alexis de Tocqueville, Giuseppe Mazzini, Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, and Princess Sophie of Bavaria. After him are William Rowan Hamilton, Joseph Smith, Fanny Mendelssohn, Louis Auguste Blanqui, Maria Anna of Bavaria, and Franz Xaver Winterhalter. Among people deceased in 1894, Ferdinand de Lesseps ranks 5. Before him are Alexander III of Russia, Heinrich Hertz, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Hermann von Helmholtz. After him are Adolphe Sax, Anton Rubinstein, Lajos Kossuth, Gustave Caillebotte, Marie François Sadi Carnot, Francis II of the Two Sicilies, and Pafnuty Chebyshev.

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In France

Among people born in France, Ferdinand de Lesseps ranks 318 out of 6,011. Before him are Chrétien de Troyes (1135), Fernand Braudel (1902), Raynald of Châtillon (1123), Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès (1748), Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908), and Françoise Sagan (1935). After him are Carlo Buonaparte (1746), Guillaume de Machaut (1300), Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707), Sophie Germain (1776), Paul Valéry (1871), and Antonin Artaud (1896).

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Among DIPLOMATS In France

Among diplomats born in France, Ferdinand de Lesseps ranks 2. Before him are Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754). After him are Lucien Bonaparte (1775), Édith Cresson (1934), and Jules Cambon (1845).

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