1797 - 1870
Ferdinand Friedrich Georg Ludwig Freiherr von Wrangel (Russian: Фердина́нд Петро́вич Вра́нгель, tr. Ferdinand Petrovich Vrangel'; 9 January 1797 [O.S. 29 December 1796] – 6 June [O.S. 25 May] 1870) was a Baltic German explorer and seaman in the Imperial Russian Navy, Honorable Member of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, a founder of the Russian Geographic Society. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ferdinand von Wrangel has received more than 81,016 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Ferdinand von Wrangel is the 89th most popular explorer (down from 86th in 2019), the 327th most popular biography from Russia (up from 328th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Russian Explorer.
Ferdinand von Wrangel was a Prussian officer who served in the Napoleonic Wars. He was most famous for being the commander of the Russian troops in the Crimean War.
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Among explorers, Ferdinand von Wrangel ranks 89 out of 405. Before him are Calamity Jane, Lope de Aguirre, Diego Columbus, Pánfilo de Narváez, Stepan Makarov, and Vicente Yáñez Pinzón. After him are Sacagawea, Gonzalo Pizarro, Fernão Mendes Pinto, Thomas Cavendish, Diogo Dias, and Robert FitzRoy.
1852 - 1903
HPI: 70.35
Rank: 83
1518 - 1561
HPI: 70.33
Rank: 84
1479 - 1527
HPI: 70.29
Rank: 85
1478 - 1528
HPI: 70.27
Rank: 86
1848 - 1904
HPI: 70.26
Rank: 87
1460 - 1514
HPI: 70.19
Rank: 88
1797 - 1870
HPI: 70.18
Rank: 89
1780 - 1812
HPI: 70.17
Rank: 90
1510 - 1548
HPI: 70.01
Rank: 91
1509 - 1583
HPI: 69.96
Rank: 92
1560 - 1592
HPI: 69.84
Rank: 93
1450 - 1500
HPI: 69.83
Rank: 94
1805 - 1865
HPI: 69.77
Rank: 95
Among people born in 1797, Ferdinand von Wrangel ranks 18. Before him are Alfred de Vigny, Paul Delaroche, Frederick Augustus II of Saxony, Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, and Maria Leopoldina of Austria. After him are Maria Isabel of Braganza, Manuela Sáenz, Princess Henrietta of Nassau-Weilburg, Duchess Maria Dorothea of Württemberg, Prince Frederick of the Netherlands, and Carlo Blasis. Among people deceased in 1870, Ferdinand von Wrangel ranks 14. Before him are Josef Strauss, Francisco Solano López, Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Gabriel Lamé, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, and Marie-Caroline of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duchess of Berry. After him are Heinrich Gustav Magnus, Princess Louise of Prussia, Saverio Mercadante, Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich of Russia, Ignaz Moscheles, and Juan Prim, 1st Count of Reus.
1797 - 1863
HPI: 72.22
Rank: 12
1797 - 1856
HPI: 71.43
Rank: 13
1797 - 1854
HPI: 71.42
Rank: 14
1797 - 1870
HPI: 71.37
Rank: 15
1797 - 1861
HPI: 71.08
Rank: 16
1797 - 1826
HPI: 70.24
Rank: 17
1797 - 1870
HPI: 70.18
Rank: 18
1797 - 1818
HPI: 69.97
Rank: 19
1797 - 1856
HPI: 69.04
Rank: 20
1797 - 1829
HPI: 68.38
Rank: 21
1797 - 1855
HPI: 67.81
Rank: 22
1797 - 1881
HPI: 67.69
Rank: 23
1797 - 1878
HPI: 67.55
Rank: 24
1827 - 1870
HPI: 73.33
Rank: 8
1827 - 1870
HPI: 72.65
Rank: 9
1797 - 1870
HPI: 71.37
Rank: 10
1795 - 1870
HPI: 70.84
Rank: 11
1836 - 1870
HPI: 70.44
Rank: 12
1798 - 1870
HPI: 70.22
Rank: 13
1797 - 1870
HPI: 70.18
Rank: 14
1802 - 1870
HPI: 69.83
Rank: 15
1808 - 1870
HPI: 69.45
Rank: 16
1795 - 1870
HPI: 69.35
Rank: 17
1869 - 1870
HPI: 68.63
Rank: 18
1794 - 1870
HPI: 68.17
Rank: 19
1814 - 1870
HPI: 67.98
Rank: 20
Among people born in Russia, Ferdinand von Wrangel ranks 327 out of 2,688. Before him are Nikolai Trubetzkoy (1890), Nikolai Rubinstein (1835), Sofia Gubaidulina (1931), Jani Beg (1300), Mathilde Kschessinska (1872), and Nikolay Pirogov (1810). After him are Lev Kuleshov (1899), Otto Nicolai (1810), Alexander Ostrovsky (1823), Vladimir Kryuchkov (1924), Alexander Danilovich Menshikov (1673), and Sergey Ilyushin (1894).
1890 - 1938
HPI: 70.25
Rank: 321
1835 - 1881
HPI: 70.25
Rank: 322
1931 - Present
HPI: 70.22
Rank: 323
1300 - 1357
HPI: 70.22
Rank: 324
1872 - 1971
HPI: 70.21
Rank: 325
1810 - 1881
HPI: 70.21
Rank: 326
1797 - 1870
HPI: 70.18
Rank: 327
1899 - 1970
HPI: 70.18
Rank: 328
1810 - 1849
HPI: 70.18
Rank: 329
1823 - 1886
HPI: 70.13
Rank: 330
1924 - 2007
HPI: 70.13
Rank: 331
1673 - 1729
HPI: 70.11
Rank: 332
1894 - 1977
HPI: 70.11
Rank: 333
Among explorers born in Russia, Ferdinand von Wrangel ranks 2. Before him are Nikolay Przhevalsky (1839). After him are Semyon Dezhnev (1605), Afanasy Nikitin (1500), Mikhail Lazarev (1788), Vladimir Arsenyev (1872), Nikolai Rezanov (1764), Alexander Andreyevich Baranov (1746), Vasily Tatishchev (1686), Yerofey Khabarov (1603), Aleksei Chirikov (1703), and Vladimir Atlasov (1661).
1839 - 1888
HPI: 71.24
Rank: 1
1797 - 1870
HPI: 70.18
Rank: 2
1605 - 1673
HPI: 69.16
Rank: 3
1500 - 1475
HPI: 68.18
Rank: 4
1788 - 1851
HPI: 67.64
Rank: 5
1872 - 1930
HPI: 66.84
Rank: 6
1764 - 1807
HPI: 66.06
Rank: 7
1746 - 1819
HPI: 65.27
Rank: 8
1686 - 1750
HPI: 65.15
Rank: 9
1603 - 1671
HPI: 63.83
Rank: 10
1703 - 1748
HPI: 63.20
Rank: 11
1661 - 1711
HPI: 63.15
Rank: 12