1790 - 1866
Sir George Everest, (, EEV-rist; 4 July 1790 – 1 December 1866) was a British surveyor and geographer who served as Surveyor General of India from 1830 to 1843. After receiving a military education in Marlow, Everest joined the East India Company and arrived in India at the age of 16. He was eventually made an assistant to William Lambton on the Great Trigonometric Survey, and replaced Lambton as superintendent of the survey in 1823. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Everest has received more than 1,096,827 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 50 in 2019). George Everest is the 9th most popular geographer, the 269th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 316th in 2019) and the most popular British Geographer.
George Everest was a British surveyor who is most famous for being the first to measure the height of Mount Everest.
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Among geographers, George Everest ranks 9 out of 67. Before him are Alexander von Humboldt, Gerardus Mercator, Muhammad al-Idrisi, Piri Reis, Pausanias, and Carl Ritter. After him are Abraham Ortelius, Martin Waldseemüller, Ferdinand von Richthofen, Wladimir Köppen, Paul Vidal de La Blache, and Ibn Khordadbeh.
1769 - 1859
HPI: 79.92
Rank: 3
1512 - 1594
HPI: 76.63
Rank: 4
1100 - 1165
HPI: 73.68
Rank: 5
1470 - 1554
HPI: 72.28
Rank: 6
110 - 180
HPI: 72.16
Rank: 7
1779 - 1859
HPI: 68.98
Rank: 8
1790 - 1866
HPI: 68.88
Rank: 9
1527 - 1598
HPI: 68.83
Rank: 10
1470 - 1520
HPI: 68.01
Rank: 11
1833 - 1905
HPI: 65.87
Rank: 12
1846 - 1940
HPI: 65.71
Rank: 13
1845 - 1918
HPI: 64.12
Rank: 14
820 - 912
HPI: 64.12
Rank: 15
Among people born in 1790, George Everest ranks 4. Before him are Jean-François Champollion, Leopold I of Belgium, and Sunjo of Joseon. After him are August Ferdinand Möbius, John Tyler, Alphonse de Lamartine, Jules Dumont d'Urville, Nicolas Chauvin, John Frederic Daniell, Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden, and Robert Stirling. Among people deceased in 1866, George Everest ranks 2. Before him is Bernhard Riemann. After him are Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily, Miguel I of Portugal, Karl Ludwig Hencke, Chief Seattle, William Whewell, Tokugawa Iemochi, Hermann Goldschmidt, Thomas Hodgkin, Adolph Diesterweg, and Philipp Franz von Siebold.
1790 - 1832
HPI: 77.45
Rank: 1
1790 - 1865
HPI: 73.68
Rank: 2
1790 - 1834
HPI: 68.95
Rank: 3
1790 - 1866
HPI: 68.88
Rank: 4
1790 - 1868
HPI: 68.49
Rank: 5
1790 - 1862
HPI: 67.77
Rank: 6
1790 - 1869
HPI: 67.69
Rank: 7
1790 - 1842
HPI: 62.48
Rank: 8
1790 - 1900
HPI: 61.56
Rank: 9
1790 - 1845
HPI: 61.52
Rank: 10
1790 - 1852
HPI: 60.04
Rank: 11
1790 - 1878
HPI: 58.23
Rank: 12
1826 - 1866
HPI: 79.62
Rank: 1
1790 - 1866
HPI: 68.88
Rank: 2
1782 - 1866
HPI: 67.29
Rank: 3
1802 - 1866
HPI: 64.92
Rank: 4
1793 - 1866
HPI: 59.44
Rank: 5
1786 - 1866
HPI: 59.23
Rank: 6
1794 - 1866
HPI: 58.84
Rank: 7
1846 - 1866
HPI: 58.57
Rank: 8
1802 - 1866
HPI: 57.72
Rank: 9
1798 - 1866
HPI: 57.71
Rank: 10
1790 - 1866
HPI: 57.61
Rank: 11
1796 - 1866
HPI: 56.89
Rank: 12
Among people born in United Kingdom, George Everest ranks 269 out of 7,765. Before him are Edmond Halley (1656), Jimmy Page (1944), Andrew Carnegie (1835), David Lloyd George (1863), John Constable (1776), and Jeremy Irons (1948). After him are Mary of Teck (1867), Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (1901), Nicholas Winton (1909), John Keats (1795), Jane Goodall (1934), and Benjamin Britten (1913).
1656 - 1742
HPI: 69.10
Rank: 263
1944 - Present
HPI: 69.10
Rank: 264
1835 - 1919
HPI: 69.04
Rank: 265
1863 - 1945
HPI: 69.01
Rank: 266
1776 - 1837
HPI: 68.98
Rank: 267
1948 - Present
HPI: 68.98
Rank: 268
1790 - 1866
HPI: 68.88
Rank: 269
1867 - 1953
HPI: 68.87
Rank: 270
1901 - 2004
HPI: 68.81
Rank: 271
1909 - 2015
HPI: 68.79
Rank: 272
1795 - 1821
HPI: 68.74
Rank: 273
1934 - Present
HPI: 68.73
Rank: 274
1913 - 1976
HPI: 68.71
Rank: 275
Among geographers born in United Kingdom, George Everest ranks 1. After him are David Harvey (1935), James Lovelock (1919), Doreen Massey (1944), John Walter Gregory (1864), John Speed (1551), and Thomas Griffith Taylor (1880).
1790 - 1866
HPI: 68.88
Rank: 1
1935 - Present
HPI: 62.02
Rank: 2
1919 - 2022
HPI: 60.22
Rank: 3
1944 - 2016
HPI: 47.71
Rank: 4
1864 - 1932
HPI: 47.04
Rank: 5
1551 - 1629
HPI: 40.43
Rank: 6
1880 - 1963
HPI: 38.17
Rank: 7