1540 - 1596
Sir Francis Drake (c. 1540 – 28 January 1596) was an English explorer, sea captain, privateer, naval officer, and politician. Drake is best known for his circumnavigation of the world in a single expedition, from 1577 to 1580. This included his incursion into the Pacific Ocean, until then an area of exclusive Spanish interest, and his claim to New Albion for England, an area in what is now the American state of California. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Francis Drake has received more than 5,189,710 page views. His biography is available in 107 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 104 in 2019). Francis Drake is the 12th most popular explorer, the 52nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 41st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular British Explorer.
Francis Drake was an English explorer and privateer, who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the world. He is most famous for his raids on Spanish ships and settlements in the Americas.
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Among explorers, Francis Drake ranks 12 out of 405. Before him are Bartolomeu Dias, Hernán Cortés, James Cook, Roald Amundsen, Ibn Battuta, and Zheng He. After him are Francisco Pizarro, Prince Henry the Navigator, Jacques Cartier, Fridtjof Nansen, Erik the Red, and David Livingstone.
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
1478 - 1541
HPI: 84.04
Rank: 13
1394 - 1460
HPI: 82.18
Rank: 14
1491 - 1557
HPI: 81.46
Rank: 15
1861 - 1930
HPI: 81.43
Rank: 16
950 - 1003
HPI: 81.34
Rank: 17
1813 - 1873
HPI: 81.25
Rank: 18
Among people born in 1540, Francis Drake ranks 1. After him are François Viète, Ludolph van Ceulen, Charles II, Archduke of Austria, John Sigismund Zápolya, Joseph Justus Scaliger, Maharana Pratap, Magnus, Duke of Holstein, Ana de Mendoza, Princess of Eboli, Gasparo da Salò, José de Acosta, and Won Gyun. Among people deceased in 1596, Francis Drake ranks 1. After him are Jean Bodin, Anna Jagiellon, Koca Sinan Pasha, Blaise de Vigenère, George I, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, Pellegrino Tibaldi, and Giaches de Wert.
1540 - 1596
HPI: 84.23
Rank: 1
1540 - 1603
HPI: 81.31
Rank: 2
1540 - 1610
HPI: 76.60
Rank: 3
1540 - 1590
HPI: 75.99
Rank: 4
1540 - 1571
HPI: 74.45
Rank: 5
1540 - 1609
HPI: 71.89
Rank: 6
1540 - 1597
HPI: 69.84
Rank: 7
1540 - 1583
HPI: 69.64
Rank: 8
1540 - 1592
HPI: 68.20
Rank: 9
1540 - 1609
HPI: 67.32
Rank: 10
1540 - 1600
HPI: 66.69
Rank: 11
1540 - 1597
HPI: 66.66
Rank: 12
1540 - 1596
HPI: 84.23
Rank: 1
1530 - 1596
HPI: 80.87
Rank: 2
1523 - 1596
HPI: 73.58
Rank: 3
1520 - 1596
HPI: 71.87
Rank: 4
1523 - 1596
HPI: 67.96
Rank: 5
1547 - 1596
HPI: 64.34
Rank: 6
1527 - 1596
HPI: 63.38
Rank: 7
1535 - 1596
HPI: 62.78
Rank: 8
Among people born in United Kingdom, Francis Drake ranks 52 out of 6,924. Before him are John Dalton (1766), Alfred the Great (849), Robert Hooke (1635), Lord Byron (1788), Thomas More (1478), and Sean Connery (1930). After him are Cecil Rhodes (1853), Thomas Robert Malthus (1766), Lewis Carroll (1832), Oliver Cromwell (1599), Virginia Woolf (1882), and John Stuart Mill (1806).
1766 - 1844
HPI: 84.54
Rank: 46
849 - 899
HPI: 84.51
Rank: 47
1635 - 1703
HPI: 84.49
Rank: 48
1788 - 1824
HPI: 84.48
Rank: 49
1478 - 1535
HPI: 84.47
Rank: 50
1930 - 2020
HPI: 84.46
Rank: 51
1540 - 1596
HPI: 84.23
Rank: 52
1853 - 1902
HPI: 84.04
Rank: 53
1766 - 1834
HPI: 84.00
Rank: 54
1832 - 1898
HPI: 83.81
Rank: 55
1599 - 1658
HPI: 83.79
Rank: 56
1882 - 1941
HPI: 83.68
Rank: 57
1806 - 1873
HPI: 83.59
Rank: 58
Among explorers born in United Kingdom, Francis Drake ranks 2. Before him are James Cook (1728). After him are David Livingstone (1813), Henry Morton Stanley (1841), Robert Falcon Scott (1868), Henry Hudson (1570), William Adams (1564), John Smith (1580), William Baffin (1584), Richard Francis Burton (1821), James Clark Ross (1800), and William Dampier (1651).
1728 - 1779
HPI: 86.48
Rank: 1
1540 - 1596
HPI: 84.23
Rank: 2
1813 - 1873
HPI: 81.25
Rank: 3
1841 - 1904
HPI: 76.82
Rank: 4
1868 - 1912
HPI: 74.24
Rank: 5
1570 - 1611
HPI: 74.16
Rank: 6
1564 - 1620
HPI: 73.47
Rank: 7
1580 - 1631
HPI: 73.30
Rank: 8
1584 - 1622
HPI: 73.16
Rank: 9
1821 - 1890
HPI: 72.50
Rank: 10
1800 - 1862
HPI: 72.49
Rank: 11
1651 - 1715
HPI: 71.79
Rank: 12