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Frederick Russell Burnham

1861 - 1947

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Major Frederick Russell Burnham DSO (May 11, 1861 – September 1, 1947) was an American scout and world-traveling adventurer. He is known for his service to the British South Africa Company and to the British Army in colonial Africa, and for teaching woodcraft to Robert Baden-Powell in Rhodesia. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frederick Russell Burnham has received more than 621,923 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Frederick Russell Burnham is the 403rd most popular explorer (down from 369th in 2019), the 6,915th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,447th in 2019) and the 30th most popular American Explorer.

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  • 3.56

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Frederick Russell Burnham ranks 403 out of 498. Before him are Karl Maximovich, Jacques Labillardière, Yakov Sannikov, Finn Ronne, Christopher Middleton, and Edward Belcher. After him are Boris Vilkitsky, Gennady Nevelskoy, Eudoxus of Cyzicus, Louis-Gustave Binger, François Levaillant, and Theodor Kotschy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1861, Frederick Russell Burnham ranks 117. Before him are Saint-Pol-Roux, Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Phyllis Allen, Émile Grumiaux, Hans Goldschmidt, and Gustav Heinrich Johann Apollon Tammann. After him are Malalai of Maiwand, J. B. Bury, Alfredo Zayas y Alfonso, Zygmunt Ajdukiewicz, Theodore Roberts, and Anna Brigadere. Among people deceased in 1947, Frederick Russell Burnham ranks 164. Before him are Olive Borden, Gilbert Bougnol, Pedro Ochoa, Anna von Mildenburg, R. B. Bennett, and Georg Schnéevoigt. After him are José Pardo y Barreda, Albert Bruce Jackson, Ossi Oswalda, Edwin Hedley, Riichi Yokomitsu, and Frank Heller.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Frederick Russell Burnham ranks 6,915 out of 20,380. Before him are John Romita Sr. (1930), John F. Reynolds (1820), Joe Sample (1939), Marie Doro (1882), Bob Weinstein (1954), and Eben Alexander (1953). After him are Dana Reeve (1961), Charles H. Bennett (1943), Gary Rossington (1951), Alan Shugart (1930), Gilbert Kaplan (1941), and Frances Spence (1922).

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Among EXPLORERS In United States

Among explorers born in United States, Frederick Russell Burnham ranks 30. Before him are William Clark (1770), Louise Arner Boyd (1887), John C. Frémont (1813), John Wesley Powell (1834), George Kennan (1845), and Benjamin Morrell (1795). After him are John Colter (1774), Matthew Henson (1866), Isaac Israel Hayes (1832), Adolphus Greely (1844), Wiley Post (1898), and Elisha Kent Kane (1820).

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