1659 - 1729
Jacob Roggeveen (1 February 1659 – 31 January 1729) was a Dutch explorer who was sent to find Terra Australis and Davis Land, but instead found Easter Island (called so because he landed there on Easter Sunday). Jacob Roggeveen also found Bora Bora and Maupiti of the Society Islands, as well as Samoa. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacob Roggeveen has received more than 166,315 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Jacob Roggeveen is the 49th most popular explorer (down from 43rd in 2019), the 73rd most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 50th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Dutch Explorer.
Jacob Roggeveen was a Dutch explorer who was the first to discover Easter Island in 1722.
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Among explorers, Jacob Roggeveen ranks 49 out of 405. Before him are Sven Hedin, William Baffin, Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Giovanni da Verrazzano, Diego de Almagro, and Louis Antoine de Bougainville. After him are Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Richard Francis Burton, William Adams, Hugh Glass, Samuel de Champlain, and Henry Hudson.
1865 - 1952
HPI: 66.21
Rank: 43
1584 - 1622
HPI: 66.02
Rank: 44
1778 - 1852
HPI: 65.86
Rank: 45
1485 - 1528
HPI: 65.62
Rank: 46
1475 - 1538
HPI: 65.48
Rank: 47
1729 - 1811
HPI: 65.43
Rank: 48
1659 - 1729
HPI: 65.42
Rank: 49
1832 - 1901
HPI: 65.20
Rank: 50
1821 - 1890
HPI: 65.05
Rank: 51
1564 - 1620
HPI: 64.94
Rank: 52
1783 - 1833
HPI: 64.80
Rank: 53
1567 - 1635
HPI: 64.39
Rank: 54
1570 - 1611
HPI: 64.35
Rank: 55
Among people born in 1659, Jacob Roggeveen ranks 2. Before him is Henry Purcell. After him are Georg Ernst Stahl, Henry Every, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Sebastiano Ricci, Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt, Pieter van der Aa, Domenico Gabrielli, Adriaen van der Werff, Theodore Eustace, Count Palatine of Sulzbach, and David Gregory. Among people deceased in 1729, Jacob Roggeveen ranks 4. Before him are Thomas Newcomen, John Law, and Leopold, Duke of Lorraine. After him are Jean Meslier, Alexander Danilovich Menshikov, Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, John Ernest IV, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Johann David Heinichen, William Congreve, John William III, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach, and Samuel Clarke.
1659 - 1695
HPI: 73.25
Rank: 1
1659 - 1729
HPI: 65.42
Rank: 2
1659 - 1734
HPI: 63.26
Rank: 3
1659 - 1699
HPI: 62.67
Rank: 4
1659 - 1719
HPI: 61.00
Rank: 5
1659 - 1734
HPI: 58.57
Rank: 6
1659 - 1719
HPI: 58.26
Rank: 7
1659 - 1733
HPI: 56.77
Rank: 8
1659 - 1690
HPI: 53.80
Rank: 9
1659 - 1722
HPI: 53.44
Rank: 10
1659 - 1732
HPI: 53.11
Rank: 11
1659 - 1708
HPI: 47.73
Rank: 12
1663 - 1729
HPI: 71.14
Rank: 1
1671 - 1729
HPI: 69.62
Rank: 2
1679 - 1729
HPI: 66.39
Rank: 3
1659 - 1729
HPI: 65.42
Rank: 4
1664 - 1729
HPI: 65.13
Rank: 5
1673 - 1729
HPI: 61.38
Rank: 6
1665 - 1729
HPI: 57.50
Rank: 7
1658 - 1729
HPI: 55.19
Rank: 8
1683 - 1729
HPI: 55.08
Rank: 9
1670 - 1729
HPI: 53.28
Rank: 10
1666 - 1729
HPI: 52.92
Rank: 11
1675 - 1729
HPI: 51.71
Rank: 12
Among people born in Netherlands, Jacob Roggeveen ranks 73 out of 1,427. Before him are Frits Zernike (1888), William IV, Prince of Orange (1711), Dieric Bouts (1415), Jan Tinbergen (1903), William V, Prince of Orange (1748), and Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836). After him are Hugo de Vries (1848), Carel Fabritius (1622), Jan Oort (1900), Gerard van Honthorst (1592), Sophia of Hanover (1630), and Cornelius Jansen (1585).
1888 - 1966
HPI: 65.61
Rank: 67
1711 - 1751
HPI: 65.59
Rank: 68
1415 - 1475
HPI: 65.58
Rank: 69
1903 - 1994
HPI: 65.49
Rank: 70
1748 - 1806
HPI: 65.48
Rank: 71
1836 - 1912
HPI: 65.46
Rank: 72
1659 - 1729
HPI: 65.42
Rank: 73
1848 - 1935
HPI: 65.29
Rank: 74
1622 - 1654
HPI: 65.28
Rank: 75
1900 - 1992
HPI: 65.26
Rank: 76
1592 - 1656
HPI: 65.08
Rank: 77
1630 - 1714
HPI: 64.91
Rank: 78
1585 - 1638
HPI: 64.91
Rank: 79
Among explorers born in Netherlands, Jacob Roggeveen ranks 4. Before him are Abel Tasman (1603), Willem Barentsz (1550), and Jan van Riebeeck (1619). After him are Willem Janszoon (1570), Willem Schouten (1567), Frederick de Houtman (1571), Anthony van Diemen (1593), Cornelis de Houtman (1565), Olivier van Noort (1558), Jacob van Heemskerck (1567), and Alexandrine Tinné (1835).
1603 - 1659
HPI: 77.10
Rank: 1
1550 - 1597
HPI: 73.00
Rank: 2
1619 - 1677
HPI: 67.81
Rank: 3
1659 - 1729
HPI: 65.42
Rank: 4
1570 - 1631
HPI: 62.55
Rank: 5
1567 - 1625
HPI: 60.77
Rank: 6
1571 - 1627
HPI: 57.38
Rank: 7
1593 - 1645
HPI: 56.32
Rank: 8
1565 - 1599
HPI: 55.61
Rank: 9
1558 - 1627
HPI: 55.13
Rank: 10
1567 - 1607
HPI: 54.40
Rank: 11
1835 - 1869
HPI: 53.19
Rank: 12