1643 - 1713
Jean Chardin (16 November 1643 – 5 January 1713), born Jean-Baptiste Chardin, and also known as Sir John Chardin, was a French jeweller and traveller whose ten-volume book The Travels of Sir John Chardin is regarded as one of the finest works of early Western scholarship on Safavid Iran and the Near East in general. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean Chardin has received more than 140,286 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Jean Chardin is the 131st most popular explorer (down from 127th in 2019), the 1,656th most popular biography from France (down from 1,514th in 2019) and the 12th most popular French Explorer.
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Among explorers, Jean Chardin ranks 131 out of 405. Before him are Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel, Himilco, João Vaz Corte-Real, Isabelle Eberhardt, Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir, and René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle. After him are António de Abreu, Rodrigo de Triana, Adam Olearius, Gan Ying, Frederick de Houtman, and Francisco Serrão.
1784 - 1863
HPI: 58.29
Rank: 125
550 BC - 500 BC
HPI: 58.19
Rank: 126
1420 - 1496
HPI: 58.18
Rank: 127
1877 - 1904
HPI: 58.07
Rank: 128
1000 - 1100
HPI: 58.00
Rank: 129
1643 - 1687
HPI: 58.00
Rank: 130
1643 - 1713
HPI: 57.96
Rank: 131
1480 - 1514
HPI: 57.92
Rank: 132
1469 - 1526
HPI: 57.70
Rank: 133
1603 - 1671
HPI: 57.63
Rank: 134
100 - Present
HPI: 57.53
Rank: 135
1571 - 1627
HPI: 57.38
Rank: 136
1500 - 1521
HPI: 57.35
Rank: 137
Among people born in 1643, Jean Chardin ranks 13. Before him are Henri Jules, Prince of Condé, Mary of Jesus de León y Delgado, Johann Adam Reincken, Bahadur Shah I, René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, and Ilona Zrínyi. After him are Fran Krsto Frankopan, Jean-Baptiste Denys, and Vasily Golitsyn. Among people deceased in 1713, Jean Chardin ranks 6. Before him are Arcangelo Corelli, Frederick I of Prussia, Juraj Jánošík, Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany, and Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury. After him are Carlo Maratta, Jahandar Shah, Michael II Apafi, Giuseppe Maria Tomasi, Frederick William, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and Dorothea Marie of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg.
1643 - 1709
HPI: 59.93
Rank: 7
1643 - 1731
HPI: 59.87
Rank: 8
1643 - 1722
HPI: 58.65
Rank: 9
1643 - 1712
HPI: 58.36
Rank: 10
1643 - 1687
HPI: 58.00
Rank: 11
1643 - 1703
HPI: 57.99
Rank: 12
1643 - 1713
HPI: 57.96
Rank: 13
1643 - 1671
HPI: 57.24
Rank: 14
1643 - 1704
HPI: 54.99
Rank: 15
1643 - 1714
HPI: 51.66
Rank: 16
1653 - 1713
HPI: 74.18
Rank: 1
1657 - 1713
HPI: 72.97
Rank: 2
1688 - 1713
HPI: 64.18
Rank: 3
1663 - 1713
HPI: 61.24
Rank: 4
1671 - 1713
HPI: 60.49
Rank: 5
1643 - 1713
HPI: 57.96
Rank: 6
1625 - 1713
HPI: 55.30
Rank: 7
1661 - 1713
HPI: 54.11
Rank: 8
1676 - 1713
HPI: 52.98
Rank: 9
1649 - 1713
HPI: 51.66
Rank: 10
1675 - 1713
HPI: 51.48
Rank: 11
1674 - 1713
HPI: 50.62
Rank: 12
Among people born in France, Jean Chardin ranks 1,656 out of 6,011. Before him are René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (1643), Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville (1803), Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (1929), Louis, Prince of Condé (1668), Jean-Jacques Sempé (1932), and Jean Rouch (1917). After him are Fulcher of Chartres (1059), Raymond Domenech (1952), Aristide Cavaillé-Coll (1811), Édouard Roche (1820), Joan, Countess of Flanders (1200), and Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy (1213).
1643 - 1687
HPI: 58.00
Rank: 1,650
1803 - 1847
HPI: 57.99
Rank: 1,651
1929 - 2023
HPI: 57.99
Rank: 1,652
1668 - 1710
HPI: 57.98
Rank: 1,653
1932 - 2022
HPI: 57.97
Rank: 1,654
1917 - 2004
HPI: 57.97
Rank: 1,655
1643 - 1713
HPI: 57.96
Rank: 1,656
1059 - 1127
HPI: 57.95
Rank: 1,657
1952 - Present
HPI: 57.95
Rank: 1,658
1811 - 1899
HPI: 57.92
Rank: 1,659
1820 - 1883
HPI: 57.92
Rank: 1,660
1200 - 1244
HPI: 57.92
Rank: 1,661
1213 - 1272
HPI: 57.91
Rank: 1,662
Among explorers born in France, Jean Chardin ranks 12. Before him are Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse (1741), Jules Dumont d'Urville (1790), Jeanne Baret (1740), Charles Marie de La Condamine (1701), Jean de Béthencourt (1362), and René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (1643). After him are Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier (1705), Sophie Blanchard (1778), Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec (1734), Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1605), Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne (1724), and Henri Mouhot (1826).
1741 - 1788
HPI: 64.11
Rank: 6
1790 - 1842
HPI: 62.48
Rank: 7
1740 - 1807
HPI: 61.64
Rank: 8
1701 - 1774
HPI: 61.57
Rank: 9
1362 - 1425
HPI: 61.10
Rank: 10
1643 - 1687
HPI: 58.00
Rank: 11
1643 - 1713
HPI: 57.96
Rank: 12
1705 - 1786
HPI: 56.58
Rank: 13
1778 - 1819
HPI: 56.18
Rank: 14
1734 - 1797
HPI: 56.09
Rank: 15
1605 - 1689
HPI: 55.64
Rank: 16
1724 - 1772
HPI: 55.07
Rank: 17
1826 - 1861
HPI: 54.76
Rank: 18