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George Kennan

1845 - 1924

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George Kennan (February 16, 1845 – May 10, 1924) was an American explorer noted for his travels in the Kamchatka and Caucasus regions of the Russian Empire. He was a cousin twice removed of the American diplomat and historian George F. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Kennan has received more than 57,475 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). George Kennan is the 367th most popular explorer (down from 355th in 2019), the 5,899th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,965th in 2019) and the 28th most popular American Explorer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.94

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, George Kennan ranks 367 out of 498. Before him are George Bass, György Almásy, Khariton Laptev, Jean Louis Marie Poiret, Juan de Fuca, and Fyodor Konyukhov. After him are Lauge Koch, Ivan Moskvitin, Juan de Oñate, Arnaud-Michel d'Abbadie, Theodor von Heuglin, and Pyotr Chikhachyov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1845, George Kennan ranks 81. Before him are Salim bin Thuwaini, Žemaitė, Zygmunt Gorazdowski, Arthur MacArthur Jr., José Paranhos, Baron of Rio Branco, and Pier Andrea Saccardo. After him are Edward Douglass White, Quanah Parker, Hermann Bollé, Fanny Churberg, Sámuel Teleki, and Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne. Among people deceased in 1924, George Kennan ranks 97. Before him are Masujiro Nishida, Alois Riehl, Anna Palm de Rosa, Thomas H. Ince, Viktor Nogin, and Gregory VII of Constantinople. After him are Lin Shu, Ivan Evstratiev Geshov, Stan Rowley, Herman Heijermans, Hannibal Sehested, and Teodor Teodorov.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, George Kennan ranks 5,899 out of 20,380. Before him are Chuck Close (1940), Eugene Polley (1915), Rachel Jackson (1767), Samuel Alito (1950), Efraim Zuroff (1948), and Ed Helms (1974). After him are Herschel Savage (1952), Norman Vincent Peale (1898), Lizabeth Scott (1922), Donald Fagen (1948), Michael Andretti (1962), and Chloë Sevigny (1974).

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Among EXPLORERS In United States

Among explorers born in United States, George Kennan ranks 28. Before him are Roy Chapman Andrews (1884), Nathaniel Palmer (1799), William Clark (1770), Louise Arner Boyd (1887), John C. Frémont (1813), and John Wesley Powell (1834). After him are Benjamin Morrell (1795), Frederick Russell Burnham (1861), John Colter (1774), Matthew Henson (1866), Isaac Israel Hayes (1832), and Adolphus Greely (1844).

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