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Jacob Le Maire

1585 - 1616

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Jacob Le Maire (c. 1585 – 22 December 1616) was a Dutch mariner who circumnavigated the Earth in 1615 and 1616. The strait between Tierra del Fuego and Isla de los Estados was named the Le Maire Strait in his honour, though not without controversy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacob Le Maire has received more than 70,542 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Jacob Le Maire is the 4,237th most popular politician (up from 4,479th in 2019), the 153rd most popular biography from Belgium (up from 164th in 2019) and the 46th most popular Belgian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Jacob Le Maire ranks 4,237 out of 15,577Before him are Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange, Wamba, Wu Ding, Anne Catherine of Brandenburg, and Dieter Wisliceny. After him are Elio Di Rupo, Rafael Correa, Emperor An of Han, Chandra Shekhar Azad, Çandarlı Halil Pasha the Younger, and Issey Miyake.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1585, Jacob Le Maire ranks 10Before him are Hendrick Avercamp, Anna of Tyrol, John George I, Elector of Saxony, Uriel da Costa, Zacharias Janssen, and Lucilio Vanini. After him are Jacques Lemercier, John Rolfe, Hamnet Shakespeare, Mary Ward, Squanto, and Caspar Bartholin the Elder. Among people deceased in 1616, Jacob Le Maire ranks 7Before him are William Shakespeare, Miguel de Cervantes, Tokugawa Ieyasu, Maria Anna of Bavaria, Vincenzo Scamozzi, and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega. After him are Simeon Bekbulatovich, John Adolf, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, Andreas Libavius, Magdalene of Brandenburg, Johannes Fabricius, and Kuzma Minin.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Jacob Le Maire ranks 153 out of 1,019Before him are Henry I, Duke of Brabant (1165), Theroigne de Mericourt (1762), Eric Walter Elst (1936), Bartholomeus Spranger (1546), Jacques Arcadelt (1507), and The Singing Nun (1933). After him are Elio Di Rupo (1951), Leo Baekeland (1863), Charles Michel (1975), John I, Duke of Brabant (1252), Bavo of Ghent (589), and Blanche of Namur (1320).

Among POLITICIANS In Belgium

Among politicians born in Belgium, Jacob Le Maire ranks 46Before him are Ermengarde of Hesbaye (778), Prince Charles, Count of Flanders (1903), Charles-Joseph, 7th Prince of Ligne (1735), Louis II, Count of Flanders (1330), Princess Clémentine of Belgium (1872), and Theroigne de Mericourt (1762). After him are Elio Di Rupo (1951), Charles Michel (1975), John I, Duke of Brabant (1252), Blanche of Namur (1320), Princess Louise of Belgium (1858), and Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant (1859).