New games! PlayTrivia andBirthle.

EXPLORER

Jeanne Baret

1740 - 1807

Photo of Jeanne Baret

Icon of person Jeanne Baret

Jeanne Baret ([ʒan ba.ʁɛ]; 27 July 1740 – 5 August 1807) was a member of Louis Antoine de Bougainville's expedition on the ships La Boudeuse and Étoile in 1766–1769. Baret is recognized as the first woman to have completed a voyage of circumnavigation of the globe, which she did via maritime transport. Jeanne Baret joined the expedition disguised as a man, calling herself Jean Baret. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jeanne Baret has received more than 473,048 page views. Her biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Jeanne Baret is the 85th most popular explorer (down from 28th in 2019), the 1,081st most popular biography from France (down from 271st in 2019) and the 8th most popular French Explorer.

Jeanne Baret was a French explorer and the first woman to circumnavigate the globe.

Memorability Metrics

  • 470k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 61.64

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.90

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.52

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Jeanne Barets by language


Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Jeanne Baret ranks 85 out of 405. Before her are Benjamin of Tudela, Ármin Vámbéry, Stepan Makarov, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Bjarni Herjólfsson, and Yaqut al-Hamawi. After her are Charles Marie de La Condamine, Juan Díaz de Solís, Sebastian Cabot, Adam Johann von Krusenstern, Jean de Béthencourt, and Diogo Dias.

Most Popular Explorers in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1740, Jeanne Baret ranks 6. Before her are Marquis de Sade, Ivan VI of Russia, Giovanni Paisiello, Empress Go-Sakuramachi, and Isabelle de Charrière. After her are Horace Bénédict de Saussure, Carl Michael Bellman, Johann Jacob Schweppe, Giambattista Bodoni, Johann van Beethoven, and Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay. Among people deceased in 1807, Jeanne Baret ranks 6. Before her are Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily, Angelica Kauffman, Pasquale Paoli, Jérôme Lalande, and Magtymguly Pyragy. After her are Henry Benedict Stuart, George Atwood, John Newton, Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Osman Pazvantoğlu, and Jacob Philipp Hackert.

Others Born in 1740

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1807

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In France

Among people born in France, Jeanne Baret ranks 1,081 out of 6,011. Before her are Jean Casimir-Perier (1847), Jan Gossaert (1478), Georges Picquart (1854), André Bazin (1918), Jean Gerson (1363), and Alice Prin (1901). After her are Henry II, Count of Champagne (1166), Rosa Bonheur (1822), Pierre Schaeffer (1910), Charles Trenet (1913), Émile Bernard (1868), and Daniel Cohn-Bendit (1945).

Others born in France

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among EXPLORERS In France

Among explorers born in France, Jeanne Baret ranks 8. Before her are Jacques Cartier (1491), Pytheas (-380), Louis Antoine de Bougainville (1729), Samuel de Champlain (1567), Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse (1741), and Jules Dumont d'Urville (1790). After her are Charles Marie de La Condamine (1701), Jean de Béthencourt (1362), René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (1643), Jean Chardin (1643), Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier (1705), and Sophie Blanchard (1778).

French born Explorers

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous
  • DatawheelCL