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Francis Younghusband

1863 - 1942

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Lieutenant Colonel Sir Francis Edward Younghusband, (31 May 1863 – 31 July 1942) was a British Army officer, explorer and spiritual writer. He is remembered for his travels in the Far East and Central Asia; especially the 1904 British expedition to Tibet, led by himself, and for his writings on Asia and foreign policy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Francis Younghusband has received more than 292,080 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Francis Younghusband is the 309th most popular explorer (down from 277th in 2019), the 58th most popular biography from Pakistan (down from 47th in 2019) and the most popular Pakistani Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Francis Younghusband ranks 309 out of 498Before him are Bertrand Piccard, Meriwether Lewis, Gustav Adolf von Götzen, Ludwig Leichhardt, Edward S. Curtis, and Helmer Hanssen. After him are Sebastián Vizcaíno, Friedrich Gerhard Rohlfs, Chris McCandless, Francisco de Ulloa, Ivan Papanin, and Pyotr Kozlov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1863, Francis Younghusband ranks 98Before him are Black Elk, Herbert James Draper, Richard F. Outcault, Augusto B. Leguía, Lucien Pissarro, and Ernst II, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg. After him are Władysław Horodecki, Edith Durham, Lyubomir Miletich, Alfred Perot, Milka Ternina, and Bob Fitzsimmons. Among people deceased in 1942, Francis Younghusband ranks 142Before him are Gabriel Terra, Charlie Christian, Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear, Nikola Vaptsarov, Alberto Franchetti, and J. B. M. Hertzog. After him are Alexey Troitsky, Emanuel Feuermann, Xiao Hong, Adolf Mayer, Zsigmond Móricz, and Mordechai Gebirtig.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Francis Younghusband ranks 58 out of 217Before him are I. K. Gujral (1919), Muhammad Rafiq Tarar (1929), Sunil Dutt (1929), Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (1948), Fazlur Rahman Malik (1919), and Milkha Singh (1935). After him are Faiz Ahmad Faiz (1911), Farooq Leghari (1940), Manoj Kumar (1937), Aafia Siddiqui (1972), Gulzar (1934), and Duleep Singh (1838).

Among EXPLORERS In Pakistan

Among explorers born in Pakistan, Francis Younghusband ranks 1