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Gil Eanes

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Gil Eanes (or Eannes, in the old Portuguese spelling; Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈʒil iˈɐnɨʃ]) was a 15th-century Portuguese navigator and explorer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gil Eanes has received more than 117,603 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Gil Eanes is the 136th most popular explorer (up from 159th in 2019), the 125th most popular biography from Portugal (up from 147th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Portuguese Explorer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 120k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 64.38

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.64

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.23

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Gil Eanes ranks 136 out of 498. Before him are Adam Olearius, Adrien de Gerlache, Francisco Serrão, Juan de Grijalva, Vladimir Arsenyev, and João Vaz Corte-Real. After him are Frederick Cook, Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier, Andrés de Urdaneta, René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, Otto Sverdrup, and Mikhail Lazarev.

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In Portugal

Among people born in Portugal, Gil Eanes ranks 125 out of 633. Before him are Artur Jorge (1946), Peter, Duke of Coimbra (1392), Karl Nesselrode (1780), Francisco Serrão (1500), Maria of Portugal, Duchess of Viseu (1521), and João Vaz Corte-Real (1420). After him are Al-Mu'tamid ibn Abbad (1040), Gil Vicente (1465), Infanta Maria Anna of Portugal (1843), Maria Helena Vieira da Silva (1908), Ferdinand, Count of Flanders (1188), and Infanta Antónia of Portugal (1845).

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Among EXPLORERS In Portugal

Among explorers born in Portugal, Gil Eanes ranks 15. Before him are Tristão da Cunha (1460), João Gonçalves Zarco (1390), Fernão Mendes Pinto (1509), Pedro Fernandes de Queirós (1565), Francisco Serrão (1500), and João Vaz Corte-Real (1420). After him are Pêro da Covilhã (1450), Pedro Mascarenhas (1484), Filipa Moniz Perestrelo (1455), Gaspar Corte-Real (1450), António de Abreu (1480), and Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo (1499).

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