1757 - 1798
Captain George Vancouver (22 June 1757 – 10 May 1798) was a British Royal Navy officer best known for his 1791–1795 expedition, which explored and charted North America's northwestern Pacific Coast regions, including the coasts of what are now the Canadian province of British Columbia and the U.S. states of Alaska, Washington, Oregon, and California. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Vancouver has received more than 1,160,864 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). George Vancouver is the 117th most popular explorer, the 1,038th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,022nd in 2019) and the 17th most popular British Explorer.
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Among explorers, George Vancouver ranks 117 out of 405. Before him are Tristão da Cunha, Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, Semyon Dezhnev, Pedro de Mendoza, Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, and Thomas Cavendish. After him are Andrés de Urdaneta, Afanasy Nikitin, Alvise Cadamosto, Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, João da Nova, and Isabella Bird.
1460 - 1540
HPI: 59.74
Rank: 111
1565 - 1614
HPI: 59.64
Rank: 112
1605 - 1673
HPI: 59.33
Rank: 113
1487 - 1537
HPI: 59.22
Rank: 114
1510 - 1554
HPI: 59.15
Rank: 115
1560 - 1592
HPI: 59.12
Rank: 116
1757 - 1798
HPI: 58.80
Rank: 117
1498 - 1568
HPI: 58.68
Rank: 118
1500 - 1475
HPI: 58.67
Rank: 119
1432 - 1488
HPI: 58.51
Rank: 120
1509 - 1579
HPI: 58.45
Rank: 121
1460 - 1509
HPI: 58.40
Rank: 122
1831 - 1904
HPI: 58.36
Rank: 123
Among people born in 1757, George Vancouver ranks 12. Before him are Countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf, Pierre Augereau, Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, Ignaz Pleyel, Rigas Feraios, and Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. After him are Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis, Johann Matthäus Bechstein, Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt, Erik Acharius, and Michel-Gabriel Paccard. Among people deceased in 1798, George Vancouver ranks 7. Before him are Giacomo Casanova, Luigi Galvani, Stanisław August Poniatowski, Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen, Rigas Feraios, and Christian Gottlob Neefe. After him are Princess Friederike of Brandenburg-Schwedt, Heraclius II of Georgia, Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder, Infanta María Amalia of Spain, Edward Waring, and Tarrare.
1757 - 1831
HPI: 63.23
Rank: 6
1757 - 1816
HPI: 62.28
Rank: 7
1757 - 1806
HPI: 61.82
Rank: 8
1757 - 1831
HPI: 61.12
Rank: 9
1757 - 1798
HPI: 60.04
Rank: 10
1757 - 1828
HPI: 59.94
Rank: 11
1757 - 1798
HPI: 58.80
Rank: 12
1757 - 1808
HPI: 58.34
Rank: 13
1757 - 1822
HPI: 57.46
Rank: 14
1757 - 1823
HPI: 57.29
Rank: 15
1757 - 1814
HPI: 56.59
Rank: 16
1757 - 1819
HPI: 56.06
Rank: 17
1757 - 1827
HPI: 55.84
Rank: 18
1725 - 1798
HPI: 78.68
Rank: 1
1737 - 1798
HPI: 76.66
Rank: 2
1732 - 1798
HPI: 70.62
Rank: 3
1742 - 1798
HPI: 68.29
Rank: 4
1757 - 1798
HPI: 60.04
Rank: 5
1748 - 1798
HPI: 59.82
Rank: 6
1757 - 1798
HPI: 58.80
Rank: 7
1736 - 1798
HPI: 58.19
Rank: 8
1720 - 1798
HPI: 58.04
Rank: 9
1773 - 1798
HPI: 56.02
Rank: 10
1779 - 1798
HPI: 54.49
Rank: 11
1736 - 1798
HPI: 54.43
Rank: 12
1772 - 1798
HPI: 54.12
Rank: 13
Among people born in United Kingdom, George Vancouver ranks 1,038 out of 7,765. Before him are Charles Lightoller (1874), James Meade (1907), Alexander II of Scotland (1198), Bob Hope (1903), Samuel Butler (1612), and Roger Daltrey (1944). After him are Lilian, Princess of Réthy (1916), Alan Moore (1953), Thomas Graham (1805), Jack Phillips (1887), Geraldine McEwan (1932), and John Horton Conway (1937).
1874 - 1952
HPI: 58.82
Rank: 1,032
1907 - 1995
HPI: 58.82
Rank: 1,033
1198 - 1249
HPI: 58.81
Rank: 1,034
1903 - 2003
HPI: 58.80
Rank: 1,035
1612 - 1680
HPI: 58.80
Rank: 1,036
1944 - Present
HPI: 58.80
Rank: 1,037
1757 - 1798
HPI: 58.80
Rank: 1,038
1916 - 2002
HPI: 58.78
Rank: 1,039
1953 - Present
HPI: 58.77
Rank: 1,040
1805 - 1869
HPI: 58.77
Rank: 1,041
1887 - 1912
HPI: 58.77
Rank: 1,042
1932 - 2015
HPI: 58.76
Rank: 1,043
1937 - 2020
HPI: 58.76
Rank: 1,044
Among explorers born in United Kingdom, George Vancouver ranks 17. Before him are James Clark Ross (1800), John Davis (1550), William Dampier (1651), Robert FitzRoy (1805), Mary Kingsley (1862), and Thomas Cavendish (1560). After him are Isabella Bird (1831), Martin Frobisher (1535), Alexander Mackenzie (1764), Samuel Wallis (1728), Matthew Flinders (1774), and James Bruce (1730).
1800 - 1862
HPI: 63.77
Rank: 11
1550 - 1605
HPI: 63.18
Rank: 12
1651 - 1715
HPI: 63.09
Rank: 13
1805 - 1865
HPI: 60.88
Rank: 14
1862 - 1900
HPI: 60.74
Rank: 15
1560 - 1592
HPI: 59.12
Rank: 16
1757 - 1798
HPI: 58.80
Rank: 17
1831 - 1904
HPI: 58.36
Rank: 18
1535 - 1594
HPI: 57.31
Rank: 19
1764 - 1820
HPI: 57.13
Rank: 20
1728 - 1795
HPI: 56.35
Rank: 21
1774 - 1814
HPI: 56.00
Rank: 22
1730 - 1794
HPI: 54.60
Rank: 23