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James Bruce

1730 - 1794

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James Bruce of Kinnaird (14 December 1730 – 27 April 1794) was a Scottish traveller and travel writer who confirmed the source of the Blue Nile. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Bruce has received more than 234,316 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). James Bruce is the 168th most popular explorer (up from 195th in 2019), the 1,405th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,660th in 2019) and the 21st most popular British Explorer.

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  • 230k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.83

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.98

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.03

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, James Bruce ranks 168 out of 498. Before him are Atlantic voyage of the predecessor of Mansa Musa, St John Philby, Ruy López de Villalobos, Gustav Nachtigal, Luís Vaz de Torres, and Niccolò de' Conti. After him are Lancelotto Malocello, Henri Mouhot, Paulo da Gama, Gaspar Corte-Real, António de Abreu, and Simon Fraser.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1730, James Bruce ranks 10. Before him are Étienne Bézout, Jan Ingenhousz, Darya Nikolayevna Saltykova, Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia, Josiah Wedgwood, and Antonio Sacchini. After him are Prince Francis Xavier of Saxony, Velu Nachiyar, Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, William Hamilton, Motoori Norinaga, and Johann Hedwig. Among people deceased in 1794, James Bruce ranks 35. Before him are Lucile Desmoulins, Caspar Friedrich Wolff, Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, Florimond Claude, Comte de Mercy-Argenteau, Lotf Ali Khan, and Countess Palatine Elisabeth Auguste of Sulzbach. After him are Paisius Velichkovsky, Fabre d'Églantine, Pierre Gaspard Chaumette, Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne, Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, and Jacques François Dugommier.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, James Bruce ranks 1,405 out of 8,785. Before him are Malcolm Lowry (1909), Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838), Harry Gregg (1932), Charles Webster Leadbeater (1854), Herbert Pitman (1877), and Michael Owen (1979). After him are William George Horner (1786), Vinnie Jones (1965), William Robert Brooks (1844), Christine McVie (1943), Constantine II of Scotland (801), and Geezer Butler (1949).

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Among EXPLORERS In United Kingdom

Among explorers born in United Kingdom, James Bruce ranks 21. Before him are Mary Kingsley (1862), Thomas Cavendish (1560), George Vancouver (1757), Isabella Bird (1831), Mark Sykes (1879), and Martin Frobisher (1535). After him are John Rolfe (1585), William Parry (1790), Alexander Mackenzie (1764), Matthew Flinders (1774), Samuel Wallis (1728), and John Ross (1777).

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