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Frederick Russell Burnham

1861 - 1947

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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 572,161 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Frederick Russell Burnham is the 370th most popular explorer (down from 331st in 2019), the 6,460th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,519th in 2019) and the 28th most popular American Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Frederick Russell Burnham ranks 370 out of 405Before him are George Bass, Charles John Andersson, Aeneas Mackintosh, Finn Ronne, Lauge Koch, and Yakov Sannikov. After him are Louis de Freycinet, Luke Foxe, Alfred Maudslay, Henry Kellett, Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz, and John Marshall.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1861, Frederick Russell Burnham ranks 107Before him are Maximilian Harden, Maxime Maufra, Dorothea Klumpke, Nikola Ivanov, Hans Goldschmidt, and Phyllis Allen. After him are Kliment Boyadzhiev, Herbert Hall Turner, Andrei Ryabushkin, Friedrich Engel, Anna Brigadere, and Aimé Haegeman. Among people deceased in 1947, Frederick Russell Burnham ranks 151Before him are Urban Gad, Anna von Mildenburg, R. B. Bennett, Riichi Yokomitsu, José Pardo y Barreda, and Tefta Tashko-Koço. After him are Amadeo García, Annie S. D. Maunder, Ellsworth Huntington, George Henry Peters, Nikolai Chebotaryov, and Simon Janashia.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Frederick Russell Burnham ranks 6,460 out of 18,182Before him are Pia Zadora (1953), Oliver Hazard Perry (1785), Henry Halleck (1815), Eugene McCarthy (1916), Joan Mitchell (1925), and Teddy Mayer (1935). After him are Harry Shearer (1943), Frank Pierson (1925), Arthur Golden (1956), Timothy Zahn (1951), Kenneth Noland (1924), and Darlene Love (1941).

Among EXPLORERS In United States

Among explorers born in United States, Frederick Russell Burnham ranks 28Before him are Charles Francis Hall (1821), Nathaniel Palmer (1799), Benjamin Morrell (1795), John Wesley Powell (1834), Louise Arner Boyd (1887), and George Kennan (1845). After him are John Colter (1774), Isaac Israel Hayes (1832), Elisha Kent Kane (1820), Wiley Post (1898), Matthew Henson (1866), and Adolphus Greely (1844).