1886 - 1924
George Herbert Leigh-Mallory (18 June 1886 – 8 or 9 June 1924) was an English mountaineer who participated in the first three British Mount Everest expeditions from the early to mid-1920s. Born in Mobberley, Cheshire, Mallory became a student at Winchester College, where a teacher recruited him for an excursion in the Alps, and he developed a strong natural ability for climbing. After graduating from Magdalene College, Cambridge, he taught at Charterhouse School while honing his climbing skills in the Alps and English Lake District. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Mallory has received more than 4,395,115 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). George Mallory is the 5th most popular mountaineer, the 435th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 556th in 2019) and the most popular British Mountaineer.
George Mallory is most famous for being the first person to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
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Among mountaineers, George Mallory ranks 5 out of 45. Before him are Edmund Hillary, Reinhold Messner, Tenzing Norgay, and Heinrich Harrer. After him are Jerzy Kukuczka, Junko Tabei, Horace Bénédict de Saussure, Hermann Buhl, Edward Whymper, Wanda Rutkiewicz, and Green Boots.
1919 - 2008
HPI: 73.20
Rank: 1
1944 - Present
HPI: 70.91
Rank: 2
1914 - 1986
HPI: 70.53
Rank: 3
1912 - 2006
HPI: 70.20
Rank: 4
1886 - 1924
HPI: 65.56
Rank: 5
1948 - 1989
HPI: 63.16
Rank: 6
1939 - 2016
HPI: 62.53
Rank: 7
1740 - 1799
HPI: 61.18
Rank: 8
1924 - 1957
HPI: 60.32
Rank: 9
1840 - 1911
HPI: 60.26
Rank: 10
1943 - 1992
HPI: 59.36
Rank: 11
HPI: 59.28
Rank: 12
Among people born in 1886, George Mallory ranks 21. Before him are René Guénon, Gerda Wegener, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Karl von Frisch, Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, and Gotthard Heinrici. After him are Theodor Morell, Erich Hoepner, Zhu De, Hermann Broch, Athenagoras I of Constantinople, and Sergo Ordzhonikidze. Among people deceased in 1924, George Mallory ranks 13. Before him are Alfred Marshall, Louis Sullivan, Gabriel Fauré, Carl Spitteler, Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria, and Frances Hodgson Burnett. After him are Ferruccio Busoni, Robert Nivelle, Ferdinand Cheval, Paul Henri Balluet d'Estournelles de Constant, G. Stanley Hall, and Giacomo Matteotti.
1886 - 1951
HPI: 66.93
Rank: 15
1886 - 1940
HPI: 66.86
Rank: 16
1886 - 1954
HPI: 66.84
Rank: 17
1886 - 1982
HPI: 66.64
Rank: 18
1886 - 1921
HPI: 66.33
Rank: 19
1886 - 1971
HPI: 66.31
Rank: 20
1886 - 1924
HPI: 65.56
Rank: 21
1886 - 1948
HPI: 65.55
Rank: 22
1886 - 1944
HPI: 65.21
Rank: 23
1886 - 1976
HPI: 64.99
Rank: 24
1886 - 1951
HPI: 64.82
Rank: 25
1886 - 1972
HPI: 64.52
Rank: 26
1886 - 1937
HPI: 64.44
Rank: 27
1842 - 1924
HPI: 72.50
Rank: 7
1856 - 1924
HPI: 72.44
Rank: 8
1845 - 1924
HPI: 71.31
Rank: 9
1845 - 1924
HPI: 70.39
Rank: 10
1868 - 1924
HPI: 69.77
Rank: 11
1849 - 1924
HPI: 67.12
Rank: 12
1886 - 1924
HPI: 65.56
Rank: 13
1866 - 1924
HPI: 64.53
Rank: 14
1856 - 1924
HPI: 63.53
Rank: 15
1836 - 1924
HPI: 63.34
Rank: 16
1852 - 1924
HPI: 63.15
Rank: 17
1846 - 1924
HPI: 61.66
Rank: 18
1885 - 1924
HPI: 61.49
Rank: 19
Among people born in United Kingdom, George Mallory ranks 435 out of 7,765. Before him are Bernie Ecclestone (1930), Tony Blair (1953), Eadweard Muybridge (1830), Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1861), Saint Walpurga (710), and Robert Edwards (1925). After him are Eadred (923), Hugh Grant (1960), Gary Moore (1952), Alec Douglas-Home (1903), Joseph Merrick (1862), and Percy Fawcett (1867).
1930 - Present
HPI: 65.71
Rank: 429
1953 - Present
HPI: 65.70
Rank: 430
1830 - 1904
HPI: 65.67
Rank: 431
1861 - 1947
HPI: 65.66
Rank: 432
710 - 779
HPI: 65.58
Rank: 433
1925 - 2013
HPI: 65.57
Rank: 434
1886 - 1924
HPI: 65.56
Rank: 435
923 - 955
HPI: 65.56
Rank: 436
1960 - Present
HPI: 65.55
Rank: 437
1952 - 2011
HPI: 65.53
Rank: 438
1903 - 1995
HPI: 65.52
Rank: 439
1862 - 1890
HPI: 65.51
Rank: 440
1867 - 1925
HPI: 65.50
Rank: 441
Among mountaineers born in United Kingdom, George Mallory ranks 1. After him are Edward Whymper (1840), John Muir (1838), Andrew Irvine (1902), Albert F. Mummery (1855), Verney Lovett Cameron (1844), and Alison Hargreaves (1962).
1886 - 1924
HPI: 65.56
Rank: 1
1840 - 1911
HPI: 60.26
Rank: 2
1838 - 1914
HPI: 55.20
Rank: 3
1902 - 1924
HPI: 53.11
Rank: 4
1855 - 1895
HPI: 52.80
Rank: 5
1844 - 1894
HPI: 47.95
Rank: 6
1962 - 1995
HPI: 31.84
Rank: 7