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Hayreddin Barbarossa

1478 - 1546

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Hayreddin Barbarossa (Arabic: خير الدين بربروس, romanized: Khayr al-Din Barbarus, original name: Khiḍr; Turkish: Barbaros Hayrettin Paşa), also known as Hayreddin Pasha, Hızır Hayrettin Pasha, and simply Hızır Reis (c. 1466/1483 – 4 July 1546), was an Ottoman corsair and later admiral of the Ottoman Navy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hayreddin Barbarossa has received more than 2,554,620 page views. His biography is available in 59 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 57 in 2019). Hayreddin Barbarossa is the most popular pirate, the 28th most popular biography from Greece (up from 32nd in 2019) and the most popular Greek Pirate.

Hayreddin Barbarossa was a Turkish admiral and privateer who led the Ottoman Empire to success in the Battle of Preveza.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 59

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 12.16

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.64

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PIRATES

Among pirates, Hayreddin Barbarossa ranks 1 out of 29. After him are Blackbeard, Eric of Pomerania, Anne Bonny, Calico Jack, Henry Morgan, Mary Read, Bartholomew Roberts, D. B. Cooper, François l'Olonnais, William Kidd, and Henry Every.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1478, Hayreddin Barbarossa ranks 2. Before him is Pope Clement VII. After him are Thomas More, Francisco Pizarro, Giorgione, Philip I of Castile, Baldassare Castiglione, John, Prince of Asturias, Jan Gossaert, Pánfilo de Narváez, Hatuey, and Sancha of Aragon. Among people deceased in 1546, Hayreddin Barbarossa ranks 2. Before him is Martin Luther. After him are Meera, Francisco de Orellana, Giulio Romano, Francisco de Vitoria, Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Petru Rareș, Marinus van Reymerswaele, Étienne Dolet, Ernest I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and Isabella di Morra.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Hayreddin Barbarossa ranks 28 out of 1,024. Before him are Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921), Protagoras (-486), Thucydides (-460), Bayezid II (1447), Spartacus (-109), and Phidias (-490). After him are Xenophon (-430), Demosthenes (-384), Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha (1493), Leonidas I (-540), Muhammad Ali of Egypt (1769), and Ptolemy I Soter (-367).

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Among PIRATES In Greece

Among pirates born in Greece, Hayreddin Barbarossa ranks 1. 

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