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John Gardner Wilkinson

1797 - 1875

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Sir John Gardner Wilkinson (5 October 1797 – 29 October 1875) was an English traveller, writer and pioneer Egyptologist of the 19th century. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Gardner Wilkinson has received more than 45,781 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. John Gardner Wilkinson is the 363rd most popular explorer (down from 325th in 2019), the 3,283rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,916th in 2019) and the 47th most popular British Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, John Gardner Wilkinson ranks 363 out of 405Before him are Vasily Chichagov, Sámuel Teleki, Étienne Brûlé, Franz de Paula Adam von Waldstein, Teoberto Maler, and Edgar Evans. After him are George Bass, Charles John Andersson, Aeneas Mackintosh, Finn Ronne, Lauge Koch, and Yakov Sannikov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1797, John Gardner Wilkinson ranks 71Before him are James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, Mariano Paredes, Edward Turner Bennett, Carl Gustaf Mannerheim, Peter Georg Bang, and Jan Jacob Rochussen. After him are José Mariano Salas, Andrew Smith, Francisco Javier Echeverría, Johann Andreas Wagner, and Joseph Othmar Rauscher. Among people deceased in 1875, John Gardner Wilkinson ranks 63Before him are George Pickett, Atanasio Aguirre, Mikhail Pogodin, José María Ventura Casas, Zecharias Frankel, and Fyodor Bruni. After him are Heinrich Ewald, Henry Kellett, William Sterndale Bennett, Maria Röhl, Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling, and Atis Kronvalds.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Gardner Wilkinson ranks 3,283 out of 7,765Before him are Rhona Mitra (1976), Dorothy Garrod (1892), Dave Davies (1947), Gayatri Devi (1919), Brian Ferneyhough (1943), and Michelle Dockery (1981). After him are A. E. Housman (1859), Tony Kaye (1945), Richard Hoggart (1918), William Primrose (1904), Deusdedit of Canterbury (600), and Tim McInnerny (1956).

Among EXPLORERS In United Kingdom

Among explorers born in United Kingdom, John Gardner Wilkinson ranks 47Before him are Frederick William Beechey (1796), John McDouall Stuart (1815), Edward Wilson (1872), Frank Wild (1873), Clements Markham (1830), and Edgar Evans (1876). After him are George Bass (1771), Luke Foxe (1586), Alfred Maudslay (1850), John Marshall (1748), George Nares (1831), and Anthony de la Roché (1700).