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Francisco Serrão

1500 - 1521

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Francisco Serrão (died 1521) was a Portuguese explorer and a possible cousin of Ferdinand Magellan. His 1512 voyage was the first known European sailing east past Malacca through modern Indonesia and the East Indies. He became a confidant of Sultan Bayan Sirrullah, the ruler of Ternate, becoming his personal advisor. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Francisco Serrão has received more than 99,568 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Francisco Serrão is the 132nd most popular explorer (up from 136th in 2019), the 122nd most popular biography from Portugal (up from 132nd in 2019) and the 13th most popular Portuguese Explorer.

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  • 64.58

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.11

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.49

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Francisco Serrão ranks 132 out of 498. Before him are Salomon August Andrée, Afanasy Nikitin, Isabella Bird, Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, Adam Olearius, and Adrien de Gerlache. After him are Juan de Grijalva, Vladimir Arsenyev, João Vaz Corte-Real, Gil Eanes, Frederick Cook, and Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1500, Francisco Serrão ranks 19. Before him are Federico II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, Çandarlı Halil Pasha the Younger, Sinan Pasha, Francisco Hernández de Córdoba, Afanasy Nikitin, and Reginald Pole. After him are Paris Bordone, Abu'l-Hasan Ali of Granada, Margarita Luti, Gaspar de Lemos, Ruy López de Villalobos, and Jan Mandijn. Among people deceased in 1521, Francisco Serrão ranks 10. Before him are Josquin des Prez, Juan Ponce de León, Zhengde Emperor, Sebastian Brant, Christina of Saxony, and Leonardo Loredan. After him are Suzanne, Duchess of Bourbon, Raffaele Riario, Jorge Álvares, Tamás Bakócz, Neagoe Basarab, and Duarte Barbosa.

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In Portugal

Among people born in Portugal, Francisco Serrão ranks 122 out of 633. Before him are António Lobo Antunes (1942), Ferdinand, Duke of Viseu (1433), Afonso, Prince of Portugal (1475), Artur Jorge (1946), Peter, Duke of Coimbra (1392), and Karl Nesselrode (1780). After him are Maria of Portugal, Duchess of Viseu (1521), João Vaz Corte-Real (1420), Gil Eanes (null), Al-Mu'tamid ibn Abbad (1040), Gil Vicente (1465), and Infanta Maria Anna of Portugal (1843).

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Among EXPLORERS In Portugal

Among explorers born in Portugal, Francisco Serrão ranks 13. Before him are Diogo Dias (1450), Diego Columbus (1479), Tristão da Cunha (1460), João Gonçalves Zarco (1390), Fernão Mendes Pinto (1509), and Pedro Fernandes de Queirós (1565). After him are João Vaz Corte-Real (1420), Gil Eanes (null), Pêro da Covilhã (1450), Pedro Mascarenhas (1484), Filipa Moniz Perestrelo (1455), and Gaspar Corte-Real (1450).

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