1478 - 1546
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 2,368,751 page views. His biography is available in 57 different languages on Wikipedia. Hayreddin Barbarossa is the most popular pirate, the 32nd most popular biography from Greece (down from 27th 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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Among pirates, Hayreddin Barbarossa ranks 1 out of 25. After him are Blackbeard, Henry Morgan, Eric of Pomerania, Anne Bonny, Bartholomew Roberts, Calico Jack, Mary Read, D. B. Cooper, William Kidd, François l'Olonnais, and Sextus Pompey.
1478 - 1546
HPI: 78.06
Rank: 1
1680 - 1718
HPI: 73.75
Rank: 2
1635 - 1688
HPI: 70.15
Rank: 3
1381 - 1459
HPI: 69.82
Rank: 4
1702 - 1782
HPI: 68.37
Rank: 5
1682 - 1722
HPI: 67.50
Rank: 6
1682 - 1720
HPI: 66.60
Rank: 7
1695 - 1721
HPI: 66.46
Rank: 8
1931 - 1971
HPI: 65.66
Rank: 9
1645 - 1701
HPI: 65.16
Rank: 10
1635 - 1669
HPI: 64.49
Rank: 11
67 BC - 35 BC
HPI: 62.83
Rank: 12
Among people born in 1478, Hayreddin Barbarossa ranks 4. Before him are Thomas More, Francisco Pizarro, and Pope Clement VII. After him are Philip I of Castile, Giorgione, Baldassare Castiglione, John, Prince of Asturias, Jan Gossaert, Pánfilo de Narváez, Hatuey, and Surdas. Among people deceased in 1546, Hayreddin Barbarossa ranks 2. Before him is Martin Luther. After him are Francisco de Orellana, Meera, Giulio Romano, Francisco de Vitoria, Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Petru Rareș, Étienne Dolet, Ernest I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Isabella di Morra, and David Beaton.
1478 - 1535
HPI: 80.66
Rank: 1
1478 - 1541
HPI: 79.19
Rank: 2
1478 - 1534
HPI: 79.12
Rank: 3
1478 - 1546
HPI: 78.06
Rank: 4
1478 - 1506
HPI: 75.24
Rank: 5
1478 - 1510
HPI: 74.70
Rank: 6
1478 - 1529
HPI: 66.61
Rank: 7
1478 - 1497
HPI: 65.24
Rank: 8
1478 - 1532
HPI: 61.67
Rank: 9
1478 - 1528
HPI: 60.39
Rank: 10
1478 - Present
HPI: 57.76
Rank: 11
1478 - 1583
HPI: 55.95
Rank: 12
1483 - 1546
HPI: 92.12
Rank: 1
1478 - 1546
HPI: 78.06
Rank: 2
1511 - 1546
HPI: 69.04
Rank: 3
1498 - 1546
HPI: 67.74
Rank: 4
1499 - 1546
HPI: 67.11
Rank: 5
1483 - 1546
HPI: 62.90
Rank: 6
1484 - 1546
HPI: 60.32
Rank: 7
1487 - 1546
HPI: 59.06
Rank: 8
1509 - 1546
HPI: 55.84
Rank: 9
1497 - 1546
HPI: 54.68
Rank: 10
1520 - 1546
HPI: 53.67
Rank: 11
1494 - 1546
HPI: 43.02
Rank: 12
Among people born in Greece, Hayreddin Barbarossa ranks 32 out of 936. Before him are Bayezid II (1447), Nurbanu Sultan (1525), Xenophon (-430), Demosthenes (-384), Themistocles (-524), and Leonidas I (-540). After him are Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha (1493), Cleisthenes (-565), Gorgias (-483), Ptolemy I Soter (-367), Pyrrhus of Epirus (-318), and Solon (-638).
1447 - 1512
HPI: 79.74
Rank: 26
1525 - 1583
HPI: 79.47
Rank: 27
430 BC - 354 BC
HPI: 78.85
Rank: 28
384 BC - 322 BC
HPI: 78.44
Rank: 29
524 BC - 459 BC
HPI: 78.39
Rank: 30
540 BC - 480 BC
HPI: 78.13
Rank: 31
1478 - 1546
HPI: 78.06
Rank: 32
1493 - 1536
HPI: 77.95
Rank: 33
565 BC - 492 BC
HPI: 77.81
Rank: 34
483 BC - 375 BC
HPI: 77.55
Rank: 35
367 BC - 283 BC
HPI: 76.47
Rank: 36
318 BC - 272 BC
HPI: 76.16
Rank: 37
638 BC - 558 BC
HPI: 76.06
Rank: 38
Among pirates born in Greece, Hayreddin Barbarossa ranks 1.