MILITARY PERSONNEL

Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson

1758 - 1805

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Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronte (29 September [O.S. 18 September] 1758 – 21 October 1805) was a British flag officer in the Royal Navy. His inspirational leadership, grasp of strategy and unconventional tactics brought about a number of decisive British naval victories during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson has received more than 7,159,830 page views. His biography is available in 83 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 82 in 2019). Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson is the 33rd most popular military personnel (up from 37th in 2019), the 93rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 107th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular British Military Personnel.

Horatio Nelson, 1st viscount nelson is most famous for his victory over Napoleon Bonaparte's fleet in the Battle of the Nile, and for his death at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.

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  • 74.79

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 83

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.59

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.95

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson ranks 33 out of 2,058. Before him are Jan Žižka, Wilhelm Keitel, Guan Yu, Vercingetorix, Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Eugène de Beauharnais. After him are Belisarius, Alfred Dreyfus, Simo Häyhä, Pyrrhus of Epirus, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, and T. E. Lawrence.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1758, Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson ranks 2. Before him is Maximilien Robespierre. After him are James Monroe, Noah Webster, Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers, André Masséna, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Kamehameha I, Emperor Go-Momozono, Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier, Franz Joseph Gall, and Duchess Sophia Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Among people deceased in 1805, Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson ranks 2. Before him is Friedrich Schiller. After him are Luigi Boccherini, Isabelle de Charrière, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Claude Chappe, Maria Theresa of Savoy, Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Denmark, Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, Frederica Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt, Mihrişah Sultan, and Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson ranks 93 out of 8,785. Before him are George Harrison (1943), Henry VII of England (1457), Robert Louis Stevenson (1850), John Napier (1550), Nicholas Winton (1909), and Edward III of England (1312). After him are Jeff Beck (1944), Walter Scott (1771), Elizabeth Taylor (1932), Paul Dirac (1902), William Harvey (1578), and T. E. Lawrence (1888).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson ranks 3. Before him are William Wallace (1270), and Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (1857). After him are T. E. Lawrence (1888), Edward Smith (1850), Bernard Montgomery (1887), Alexander Selkirk (1676), John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (1650), Gertrude Bell (1868), Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby (1861), Rudolf Abel (1903), and James Paul Moody (1887).

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