1787 - 1834
James Weddell (24 August 1787 – 9 September 1834) was a British sailor, navigator and seal hunter who in February 1823 sailed to latitude of 74° 15′ S—a record 7.69 degrees or 532 statute miles south of the Antarctic Circle—and into a region of the Southern Ocean that later became known as the Weddell Sea. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Weddell has received more than 107,007 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. James Weddell is the 175th most popular explorer (down from 159th in 2019), the 252nd most popular biography from Belgium (down from 228th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Belgian Explorer.
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Among explorers, James Weddell ranks 175 out of 405. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, Luís Vaz de Torres, Cornelis de Houtman, Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg, Lincoln Ellsworth, and Gustav Nachtigal. After him are Nikolai Rezanov, Carsten Borchgrevink, Masabumi Hosono, Joshua Slocum, Olivier van Noort, and Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne.
1605 - 1689
HPI: 55.64
Rank: 169
1565 - 1614
HPI: 55.64
Rank: 170
1565 - 1599
HPI: 55.61
Rank: 171
1873 - 1969
HPI: 55.57
Rank: 172
1880 - 1951
HPI: 55.55
Rank: 173
1834 - 1885
HPI: 55.51
Rank: 174
1787 - 1834
HPI: 55.46
Rank: 175
1764 - 1807
HPI: 55.45
Rank: 176
1864 - 1934
HPI: 55.43
Rank: 177
1870 - 1939
HPI: 55.27
Rank: 178
1844 - 1909
HPI: 55.19
Rank: 179
1558 - 1627
HPI: 55.13
Rank: 180
1724 - 1772
HPI: 55.07
Rank: 181
Among people born in 1787, James Weddell ranks 17. Before him are Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov, Otto von Kotzebue, Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse, Guillaume Henri Dufour, Edmund Kean, and Delphine LaLaurie. After him are Ludwig Uhland, Muhammad ibn Ali as-Senussi, Prince William of Hesse-Kassel, Christian Ludwig Brehm, Pellegrino Rossi, and Mathieu Orfila. Among people deceased in 1834, James Weddell ranks 17. Before him are Karl Ludwig Harding, Husein Gradaščević, François-Adrien Boieldieu, Jacques Balmat, Infanta Maria Francisca of Braganza, and Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg. After him are Giovanni Aldini, Louis Philippe, Crown Prince of Belgium, Aleksey Arakcheyev, Robert Morrison, Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach, and Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow.
1787 - 1869
HPI: 58.84
Rank: 11
1787 - 1846
HPI: 58.18
Rank: 12
1787 - 1867
HPI: 56.98
Rank: 13
1787 - 1875
HPI: 56.97
Rank: 14
1787 - 1833
HPI: 56.53
Rank: 15
1787 - 1849
HPI: 56.31
Rank: 16
1787 - 1834
HPI: 55.46
Rank: 17
1787 - 1862
HPI: 54.72
Rank: 18
1787 - 1859
HPI: 54.62
Rank: 19
1787 - 1867
HPI: 54.36
Rank: 20
1787 - 1864
HPI: 53.97
Rank: 21
1787 - 1848
HPI: 53.01
Rank: 22
1787 - 1853
HPI: 52.44
Rank: 23
1765 - 1834
HPI: 60.50
Rank: 11
1802 - 1834
HPI: 59.43
Rank: 12
1775 - 1834
HPI: 59.31
Rank: 13
1762 - 1834
HPI: 58.37
Rank: 14
1800 - 1834
HPI: 56.46
Rank: 15
1763 - 1834
HPI: 55.48
Rank: 16
1787 - 1834
HPI: 55.46
Rank: 17
1762 - 1834
HPI: 55.41
Rank: 18
1833 - 1834
HPI: 55.30
Rank: 19
1769 - 1834
HPI: 54.68
Rank: 20
1782 - 1834
HPI: 54.33
Rank: 21
1800 - 1834
HPI: 53.55
Rank: 22
1782 - 1834
HPI: 52.54
Rank: 23
Among people born in Belgium, James Weddell ranks 252 out of 1,019. Before him are Emile Vandervelde (1866), Leo Tindemans (1922), John II, Duke of Brabant (1275), Michiel Coxie (1499), Herbert Wimmer (1944), and George Washington (1871). After him are Princess Anne, Duchess of Calabria (1938), Prince Alexandre of Belgium (1942), Stromae (1985), Princess Joséphine Caroline of Belgium (1872), Pierre Deligne (1944), and Jacques Feyder (1885).
1866 - 1938
HPI: 55.61
Rank: 246
1922 - 2014
HPI: 55.56
Rank: 247
1275 - 1312
HPI: 55.52
Rank: 248
1499 - 1592
HPI: 55.52
Rank: 249
1944 - Present
HPI: 55.50
Rank: 250
1871 - 1946
HPI: 55.46
Rank: 251
1787 - 1834
HPI: 55.46
Rank: 252
1938 - Present
HPI: 55.44
Rank: 253
1942 - 2009
HPI: 55.43
Rank: 254
1985 - Present
HPI: 55.43
Rank: 255
1872 - 1958
HPI: 55.39
Rank: 256
1944 - Present
HPI: 55.37
Rank: 257
1885 - 1948
HPI: 55.34
Rank: 258
Among explorers born in Belgium, James Weddell ranks 2. Before him are Adrien de Gerlache (1866). After him are Louis Hennepin (1626).
1866 - 1934
HPI: 56.44
Rank: 1
1787 - 1834
HPI: 55.46
Rank: 2
1626 - 1704
HPI: 42.90
Rank: 3