1485 - 1528
Giovanni da Verrazzano ( VERR-ə-ZAH-noh, -ət-SAH-, Italian: [dʒoˈvanni da (v)verratˈtsaːno], often misspelled Verrazano in English; 1485–1528) was an Italian (Florentine) explorer of North America, in the service of King Francis I of France. He is renowned as the first European to explore the Atlantic coast of North America between Florida and New Brunswick in 1524, including New York Bay and Narragansett Bay. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Giovanni da Verrazzano has received more than 1,145,163 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Giovanni da Verrazzano is the 46th most popular explorer (down from 42nd in 2019), the 687th most popular biography from Italy (down from 549th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Italian Explorer.
Giovanni da Verrazzano is most famous for being the first European to explore the Atlantic Coast of North America.
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Among explorers, Giovanni da Verrazzano ranks 46 out of 405. Before him are Hanno the Navigator, Zhang Qian, Ingólfr Arnarson, Sven Hedin, William Baffin, and Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen. After him are Diego de Almagro, Louis Antoine de Bougainville, Jacob Roggeveen, Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Richard Francis Burton, and William Adams.
633 BC - 530 BC
HPI: 66.55
Rank: 40
200 BC - 114 BC
HPI: 66.36
Rank: 41
850 - 910
HPI: 66.35
Rank: 42
1865 - 1952
HPI: 66.21
Rank: 43
1584 - 1622
HPI: 66.02
Rank: 44
1778 - 1852
HPI: 65.86
Rank: 45
1485 - 1528
HPI: 65.62
Rank: 46
1475 - 1538
HPI: 65.48
Rank: 47
1729 - 1811
HPI: 65.43
Rank: 48
1659 - 1729
HPI: 65.42
Rank: 49
1832 - 1901
HPI: 65.20
Rank: 50
1821 - 1890
HPI: 65.05
Rank: 51
1564 - 1620
HPI: 64.94
Rank: 52
Among people born in 1485, Giovanni da Verrazzano ranks 5. Before him are Hernán Cortés, Catherine of Aragon, Dragut, and Thomas Cromwell. After him are Pedro de Alvarado, Sebastiano del Piombo, Clément Janequin, Joos van Cleve, Johannes Bugenhagen, Wolf Huber, and Sayyida al Hurra. Among people deceased in 1528, Giovanni da Verrazzano ranks 3. Before him are Albrecht Dürer and Matthias Grünewald. After him are Georg von Frundsberg, Palma Vecchio, Pánfilo de Narváez, Pedro Navarro, Count of Oliveto, Clarice de' Medici, Balthasar Hubmaier, Rana Sanga, and Edzard I, Count of East Frisia.
1485 - 1547
HPI: 81.70
Rank: 1
1485 - 1536
HPI: 80.46
Rank: 2
1485 - 1565
HPI: 67.96
Rank: 3
1485 - 1540
HPI: 66.90
Rank: 4
1485 - 1528
HPI: 65.62
Rank: 5
1485 - 1541
HPI: 65.02
Rank: 6
1485 - 1547
HPI: 63.93
Rank: 7
1485 - 1558
HPI: 60.44
Rank: 8
1485 - 1540
HPI: 58.09
Rank: 9
1485 - 1558
HPI: 55.92
Rank: 10
1485 - 1553
HPI: 55.43
Rank: 11
1485 - 1542
HPI: 55.39
Rank: 12
1471 - 1528
HPI: 85.05
Rank: 1
1480 - 1528
HPI: 71.37
Rank: 2
1485 - 1528
HPI: 65.62
Rank: 3
1473 - 1528
HPI: 62.13
Rank: 4
1480 - 1528
HPI: 60.80
Rank: 5
1478 - 1528
HPI: 60.39
Rank: 6
1460 - 1528
HPI: 55.77
Rank: 7
1493 - 1528
HPI: 54.92
Rank: 8
1485 - 1528
HPI: 54.11
Rank: 9
1482 - 1528
HPI: 52.82
Rank: 10
1462 - 1528
HPI: 50.60
Rank: 11
Among people born in Italy, Giovanni da Verrazzano ranks 687 out of 4,668. Before him are Britannicus (41), William II of Sicily (1153), John of Capistrano (1386), Virna Lisi (1936), Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici (1360), and Andrew III of Hungary (1265). After him are Michelozzo (1396), Pope Boniface II (470), Pisanello (1395), Quintus Sertorius (-126), Ludovico Einaudi (1955), and Gaius Claudius Glaber (-200).
41 - 55
HPI: 65.68
Rank: 681
1153 - 1189
HPI: 65.65
Rank: 682
1386 - 1456
HPI: 65.64
Rank: 683
1936 - 2014
HPI: 65.64
Rank: 684
1360 - 1429
HPI: 65.63
Rank: 685
1265 - 1301
HPI: 65.63
Rank: 686
1485 - 1528
HPI: 65.62
Rank: 687
1396 - 1472
HPI: 65.62
Rank: 688
470 - 532
HPI: 65.57
Rank: 689
1395 - 1455
HPI: 65.55
Rank: 690
126 BC - 72 BC
HPI: 65.51
Rank: 691
1955 - Present
HPI: 65.49
Rank: 692
200 BC - 100 BC
HPI: 65.48
Rank: 693
Among explorers born in Italy, Giovanni da Verrazzano ranks 5. Before him are Marco Polo (1254), Christopher Columbus (1451), Amerigo Vespucci (1454), and John Cabot (1450). After him are Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1778), Antonio Pigafetta (1492), Sebastian Cabot (1484), Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza (1852), Bartholomew Columbus (1460), Alvise Cadamosto (1432), and Lancelotto Malocello (1270).
1254 - 1324
HPI: 94.60
Rank: 1
1451 - 1506
HPI: 93.18
Rank: 2
1454 - 1512
HPI: 84.72
Rank: 3
1450 - 1498
HPI: 69.26
Rank: 4
1485 - 1528
HPI: 65.62
Rank: 5
1778 - 1823
HPI: 64.05
Rank: 6
1492 - 1531
HPI: 63.11
Rank: 7
1484 - 1557
HPI: 61.49
Rank: 8
1852 - 1905
HPI: 60.92
Rank: 9
1460 - 1515
HPI: 60.36
Rank: 10
1432 - 1488
HPI: 58.51
Rank: 11
1270 - 1336
HPI: 56.04
Rank: 12