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Fletcher Christian

1764 - 1793

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Fletcher Christian (25 September 1764 – 20 September 1793) was an English sailor who led the mutiny on the Bounty in 1789, during which he seized command of the Royal Navy vessel HMS Bounty from Lieutenant William Bligh. In 1787, Christian was appointed master's mate on Bounty, tasked with transporting breadfruit plants from Tahiti to the West Indies. Bligh subsequently named him acting-Lieutenant during the voyage. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fletcher Christian has received more than 2,233,562 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Fletcher Christian is the 6,686th most popular politician (down from 6,364th in 2019), the 1,317th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,327th in 2019) and the 219th most popular British Politician.

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  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.58

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  • 3.50

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Fletcher Christian ranks 6,686 out of 19,576. Before him are Kerei Khan, Lusius Quietus, George Wallace, Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, Margherita de' Medici, and Taimur bin Feisal. After him are Hifikepunye Pohamba, Leszek II the Black, Philip de Montmorency, Count of Horn, Al-Mustadi, Ferenc Fricsay, and Poul Nyrup Rasmussen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1764, Fletcher Christian ranks 9. Before him are Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno, Ann Radcliffe, José Gervasio Artigas, Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, John Goodricke, and Duchess Augusta of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. After him are Johann Gottfried Schadow, Nikolai Rezanov, Princess Maria Carolina of Savoy, Barbara von Krüdener, Sophie de Condorcet, and Alexander Mackenzie. Among people deceased in 1793, Fletcher Christian ranks 22. Before him are Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, Duke of Penthièvre, Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière, Antoine Barnave, John Hunter, Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud, and Charles Eugene, Duke of Württemberg. After him are Jacques Cathelineau, William Aiton, John Hancock, Pietro Nardini, Frederick Augustus, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst, and Louis-Michel le Peletier, marquis de Saint-Fargeau.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Fletcher Christian ranks 1,317 out of 8,785. Before him are Jack Charlton (1935), Roddy McDowall (1928), Seal (1963), C. Northcote Parkinson (1909), Elizabeth Hurley (1965), and Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel (1870). After him are Alice Keppel (1868), Edward Bach (1886), Arthur Machen (1863), Adrian Smith (1957), Tom Simpson (1937), and Isabel Neville, Duchess of Clarence (1451).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Fletcher Christian ranks 219. Before him are John Hawkwood (1320), Thomas Gresham (1519), Alexander I of Scotland (1078), Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773), Joan of Kent (1328), and Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel (1870). After him are Isabel Neville, Duchess of Clarence (1451), Anne Lister (1791), Blanche of Lancaster (1345), Horace Walpole (1717), George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (1784), and Jeremy Corbyn (1949).

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