1899 - 2001
Helge Marcus Ingstad (30 December 1899 – 29 March 2001) was a Norwegian explorer. In 1960, after mapping some Norse settlements, Ingstad and his wife archaeologist Anne Stine Ingstad found remnants of a Viking settlement in L'Anse aux Meadows in the province of Newfoundland in Canada. They were thus the first to prove conclusively that the Icelandic/Greenlandic Norsemen such as Leif Erickson had found a way across the Atlantic Ocean to North America, roughly 500 years before Christopher Columbus and John Cabot. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Helge Ingstad has received more than 178,038 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Helge Ingstad is the 270th most popular explorer (down from 228th in 2019), the 173rd most popular biography from Norway (down from 157th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Norwegian Explorer.
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Among explorers, Helge Ingstad ranks 270 out of 405. Before him are Nikolai Spathari, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, Aleksei Chirikov, Richard Chancellor, Juan Fernández, and Grigory Shelikhov. After him are Dmitry Laptev, Tristão Vaz Teixeira, Ivan Papanin, Francis Crozier, Semyon Chelyuskin, and Alexander Dalrymple.
1636 - 1708
HPI: 51.64
Rank: 264
1519 - 1574
HPI: 51.60
Rank: 265
1703 - 1748
HPI: 51.58
Rank: 266
1521 - 1556
HPI: 51.53
Rank: 267
1536 - 1604
HPI: 51.44
Rank: 268
1747 - 1795
HPI: 51.43
Rank: 269
1899 - 2001
HPI: 51.38
Rank: 270
1701 - 1771
HPI: 51.28
Rank: 271
1395 - 1480
HPI: 51.27
Rank: 272
1894 - 1986
HPI: 51.22
Rank: 273
1796 - 1848
HPI: 51.22
Rank: 274
1700 - 1764
HPI: 51.21
Rank: 275
1737 - 1808
HPI: 51.16
Rank: 276
Among people born in 1899, Helge Ingstad ranks 140. Before him are Domingo Tejera, Sára Salkaházi, Norman Taurog, Wessel Freytag von Loringhoven, Johan Grøttumsbråten, and Li Lisan. After him are Pierre Victor Auger, C. S. Forester, Nevil Shute, Ramon Novarro, Yury Olesha, and Aleksander Zawadzki. Among people deceased in 2001, Helge Ingstad ranks 122. Before him are Henri Alekan, Ilie Verdeț, Leila Pahlavi, Aaliyah, Malcom McLean, and Grigory Chukhray. After him are John C. Lilly, Chuck Schuldiner, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Vasily Mishin, Berry Berenson, and R. K. Narayan.
1899 - 1969
HPI: 51.92
Rank: 134
1899 - 1944
HPI: 51.87
Rank: 135
1899 - 1981
HPI: 51.84
Rank: 136
1899 - 1944
HPI: 51.81
Rank: 137
1899 - 1983
HPI: 51.76
Rank: 138
1899 - 1967
HPI: 51.68
Rank: 139
1899 - 2001
HPI: 51.38
Rank: 140
1899 - 1993
HPI: 51.33
Rank: 141
1899 - 1966
HPI: 51.17
Rank: 142
1899 - 1960
HPI: 51.04
Rank: 143
1899 - 1968
HPI: 50.96
Rank: 144
1899 - 1960
HPI: 50.95
Rank: 145
1899 - 1964
HPI: 50.80
Rank: 146
1909 - 2001
HPI: 52.08
Rank: 116
1925 - 2001
HPI: 52.05
Rank: 117
1970 - 2001
HPI: 51.73
Rank: 118
1979 - 2001
HPI: 51.68
Rank: 119
1913 - 2001
HPI: 51.45
Rank: 120
1921 - 2001
HPI: 51.41
Rank: 121
1899 - 2001
HPI: 51.38
Rank: 122
1915 - 2001
HPI: 51.16
Rank: 123
1967 - 2001
HPI: 51.15
Rank: 124
1906 - 2001
HPI: 51.01
Rank: 125
1917 - 2001
HPI: 50.98
Rank: 126
1948 - 2001
HPI: 50.95
Rank: 127
1906 - 2001
HPI: 50.94
Rank: 128
Among people born in Norway, Helge Ingstad ranks 173 out of 927. Before him are Harriet Backer (1845), John Norum (1964), Vilhelm Bjerknes (1862), Colin Archer (1832), Eysteinn Erlendsson (1120), and Hjalmar Andersen (1923). After him are Henrik Steffens (1773), Amalie Skram (1846), Ole-Johan Dahl (1931), Edvard Moser (1962), Anathon Aall (1867), and Harald Sverdrup (1888).
1845 - 1932
HPI: 51.74
Rank: 167
1964 - Present
HPI: 51.67
Rank: 168
1862 - 1951
HPI: 51.50
Rank: 169
1832 - 1921
HPI: 51.50
Rank: 170
1120 - 1188
HPI: 51.50
Rank: 171
1923 - 2013
HPI: 51.40
Rank: 172
1899 - 2001
HPI: 51.38
Rank: 173
1773 - 1845
HPI: 51.35
Rank: 174
1846 - 1905
HPI: 51.35
Rank: 175
1931 - 2002
HPI: 51.31
Rank: 176
1962 - Present
HPI: 51.24
Rank: 177
1867 - 1943
HPI: 51.15
Rank: 178
1888 - 1957
HPI: 51.14
Rank: 179
Among explorers born in Norway, Helge Ingstad ranks 15. Before him are Naddodd (900), Oscar Wisting (1871), Helmer Hanssen (1870), Ohthere of Hålogaland (900), Thorvald Asvaldsson (950), and Carl Anton Larsen (1860). After him are Jens Munk (1579), Knut Haugland (1917), Thekla Resvoll (1871), Sverre Hassel (1876), Kristian Prestrud (1881), and Grímur Kamban (801).
900 - Present
HPI: 55.00
Rank: 9
1871 - 1936
HPI: 54.77
Rank: 10
1870 - 1956
HPI: 54.53
Rank: 11
900 - 901
HPI: 54.38
Rank: 12
950 - 980
HPI: 53.43
Rank: 13
1860 - 1924
HPI: 53.15
Rank: 14
1899 - 2001
HPI: 51.38
Rank: 15
1579 - 1628
HPI: 50.93
Rank: 16
1917 - 2009
HPI: 50.32
Rank: 17
1871 - 1948
HPI: 50.29
Rank: 18
1876 - 1928
HPI: 50.08
Rank: 19
1881 - 1927
HPI: 49.77
Rank: 20
801 - 899
HPI: 49.39
Rank: 21