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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 270,795 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Francis Younghusband is the 278th most popular explorer (down from 256th in 2019), the 48th most popular biography from Pakistan (down from 40th in 2019) and the most popular Pakistani Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Francis Younghusband ranks 278 out of 405. Before him are Tristão Vaz Teixeira, Ivan Papanin, Francis Crozier, Semyon Chelyuskin, Alexander Dalrymple, and Eduard von Toll. After him are Adolf Lüderitz, Wilfred Thesiger, Yuri Lisyansky, Afonso Gonçalves Baldaia, Gustav Adolf von Götzen, and Edward S. Curtis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1863, Francis Younghusband ranks 89. Before him are Klara Zamenhof, Ernst II, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Richard F. Outcault, Yevhen Petrushevych, Aliagha Shikhlinski, and Richard Dehmel. After him are Franz Schalk, Olha Kobylianska, Black Elk, Margaret Murray, Edith Durham, and Hermann Obrist. Among people deceased in 1942, Francis Younghusband ranks 115. Before him are Adolf Mayer, Vladimir Petlyakov, Heinrich Vogeler, Léon Daudet, Ahatanhel Krymsky, and Olga Benário Prestes. After him are Anna Elizabeth Klumpke, Olha Kobylianska, Wilhelm Peterson-Berger, Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear, Roberto Arlt, and Vladislav Vančura.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Francis Younghusband ranks 48 out of 180. Before him are Yahya Khan (1914), Krishna Sobti (1925), Lokaksema (147), Rahman Baba (1632), I. K. Gujral (1919), and Nawaz Sharif (1949). After him are Raja Dahir (663), Ustad Ahmad Lahori (1580), Ghulam Ishaq Khan (1915), Sunil Dutt (1929), Faiz Ahmad Faiz (1911), and Hamida Banu Begum (1527).

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Among EXPLORERS In Pakistan

Among explorers born in Pakistan, Francis Younghusband ranks 1. 

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