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John Franklin

1786 - 1847

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Sir John Franklin (16 April 1786 – 11 June 1847) was a British Royal Navy officer, explorer and colonial administrator. After serving in the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812, he led two expeditions into the Canadian Arctic and through the islands of the Arctic Archipelago, during the Coppermine expedition of 1819 and the Mackenzie River expedition of 1825, and served as Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land from 1837 to 1843. During his third and final expedition, an attempt to traverse the Northwest Passage in 1845, Franklin's ships became icebound off King William Island in what is now Nunavut, where he died in June 1847. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Franklin has received more than 2,121,026 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). John Franklin is the 384th most popular military personnel (down from 311th in 2019), the 712th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 600th in 2019) and the 13th most popular British Military Personnel.

John Franklin is most famous for his explorations of the Northwest Passage.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, John Franklin ranks 384 out of 2,058. Before him are Otto Kretschmer, Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski, Sergey Sokolov, Gustav Wagner, Götz von Berlichingen, and Cao Ren. After him are Otto von Below, Lazare Hoche, Nikolaus von Falkenhorst, David Elazar, Jan Karol Chodkiewicz, and Vasily Sokolovsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1786, John Franklin ranks 12. Before him are Ludwig I of Bavaria, François Arago, Michel Eugène Chevreul, Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Davy Crockett, and Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia. After him are Charles, Grand Duke of Baden, Friedrich Kuhlau, Guadalupe Victoria, Chief Seattle, Duke Pius August in Bavaria, and Kunisada. Among people deceased in 1847, John Franklin ranks 10. Before him are Fanny Mendelssohn, Emmanuel de Grouchy, marquis de Grouchy, Mary Anning, Archduke Joseph, Palatine of Hungary, Jules de Polignac, and Marie Duplessis. After him are Adélaïde d'Orléans, Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville, Eugénie de Beauharnais, Alexandre Brongniart, Maria Schicklgruber, and Friedrich von Gärtner.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Franklin ranks 712 out of 8,785. Before him are John Surtees (1934), Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex (1964), Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550), Oliver Reed (1938), John Gurdon (1933), and Offa of Mercia (800). After him are John Cale (1942), James Macpherson (1736), John Paul Jones (1946), George Darwin (1845), William Byrd (1543), and Kenny Dalglish (1951).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, John Franklin ranks 13. Before him are Alexander Selkirk (1676), John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (1650), Gertrude Bell (1868), Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby (1861), Rudolf Abel (1903), and James Paul Moody (1887). After him are Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (1738), Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis (1891), Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig (1861), John Hawkins (1532), Woodes Rogers (1679), and John Hanning Speke (1827).

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