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Frank Wild

1873 - 1939

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John Robert Francis Wild (18 April 1873 – 19 August 1939) was an English sailor and explorer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frank Wild has received more than 360,817 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Frank Wild is the 446th most popular explorer (down from 345th in 2019), the 4,274th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,102nd in 2019) and the 62nd most popular British Explorer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 360k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.06

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.59

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.28

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Frank Wild ranks 446 out of 498. Before him are Herbert Ponting, Karl Mauch, Louis Hennepin, Artur Chilingarov, Matthew Henson, and Ernest Henry Wilson. After him are Gombojab Tsybikov, Johann Ludwig Krapf, John Moresby, Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz, Charles Sturt, and Robert O'Hara Burke.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, Frank Wild ranks 171. Before him are Enoch Sontonga, Olaf Gulbransson, Lev Chugaev, Dimitri Arakishvili, Robert Wrenn, and Dimitrios Maximos. After him are Juliette Atkinson, Michel Giacobini, Gombojab Tsybikov, Jānis Endzelīns, Henri Helle, and Karl Jatho. Among people deceased in 1939, Frank Wild ranks 142. Before him are Boris Grigoriev, Arthur E. Kennelly, Sergey Gritsevets, Hugo Jahnke, Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin, and Owen Moore. After him are Caius Welcker, Perikles Kakousis, Lili Bech, Alvah Meyer, James Parrott, and Walter Gordon.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Frank Wild ranks 4,274 out of 8,785. Before him are Dorothea Bate (1878), James Challis (1803), Ernest Henry Wilson (1876), Jadon Sancho (2000), Michelle Ryan (1984), and Alex Turner (1986). After him are Simon West (1961), Reginald Innes Pocock (1863), Peter Hook (1956), Jamie Hewlett (1968), Oliver Leese (1894), and John Ainsworth-Davis (1895).

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Among EXPLORERS In United Kingdom

Among explorers born in United Kingdom, Frank Wild ranks 62. Before him are Edward John Eyre (1815), George Back (1796), Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet (1764), John Gardner Wilkinson (1797), Herbert Ponting (1870), and Ernest Henry Wilson (1876). After him are John Moresby (1830), Edgar Evans (1876), John Rae (1813), Ed Stafford (1975), Edgeworth David (1858), and Henry Seebohm (1832).

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