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George Everest

1790 - 1866

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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 1,151,949 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). George Everest is the 15th most popular geographer (down from 9th in 2019), the 489th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 269th 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

Among geographers, George Everest ranks 15 out of 86. Before him are Abraham Ortelius, Ferdinand von Richthofen, Martin Waldseemüller, Wladimir Köppen, Ya'qubi, and Georg Joachim Rheticus. After him are Pomponius Mela, Ibn Khordadbeh, Paul Vidal de La Blache, Ibn Jubayr, James Lovelock, and Sebastian Münster.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1790, George Everest ranks 7. Before him are Jean-François Champollion, Leopold I of Belgium, August Ferdinand Möbius, Alphonse de Lamartine, Sunjo of Joseon, and John Tyler. After him are Jules Dumont d'Urville, Nicolas Chauvin, John Frederic Daniell, Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden, John Austin, and Robert Stirling. Among people deceased in 1866, George Everest ranks 3. Before him are Bernhard Riemann, and Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily. After him are Miguel I of Portugal, Karl Ludwig Hencke, Tokugawa Iemochi, William Whewell, Hermann Goldschmidt, Chief Seattle, Philipp Franz von Siebold, Adolph Diesterweg, and Friedrich Rückert.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, George Everest ranks 489 out of 8,785. Before him are Margot Fonteyn (1919), Joseph Lister (1827), John Smith (1580), John Dowland (1563), John Cleese (1939), and Martin Amis (1949). After him are Ernest Thompson Seton (1860), James Callaghan (1912), Thomas Carlyle (1795), J. Bruce Ismay (1862), Henry Hudson (1570), and Trevor Howard (1913).

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Among GEOGRAPHERS In United Kingdom

Among geographers born in United Kingdom, George Everest ranks 1. After him are James Lovelock (1919), David Harvey (1935), John Walter Gregory (1864), Doreen Massey (1944), Aaron Arrowsmith (1750), John Speed (1551), Thomas Griffith Taylor (1880), and Alexander Keith Johnston (1804).

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