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MILITARY PERSONNEL

John Hanning Speke

1827 - 1864

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Captain John Hanning Speke (4 May 1827 – 15 September 1864) was an English explorer and officer in the British Indian Army who made three exploratory expeditions to Africa. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Hanning Speke has received more than 516,384 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). John Hanning Speke is the 441st most popular military personnel (up from 490th in 2019), the 837th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 967th in 2019) and the 14th most popular British Military Personnel.

John Hanning Speke was most famous for discovering the source of the Nile River.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, John Hanning Speke ranks 441 out of 1,468Before him are Yoshiko Kawashima, Leopold Joseph von Daun, Mikhail Kirponos, Stonewall Jackson, Petre Dumitrescu, and Josef Harpe. After him are Matthäus Hetzenauer, Osman Nuri Pasha, Yonatan Netanyahu, Karl von Bülow, John Hawkins, and Levin August von Bennigsen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1827, John Hanning Speke ranks 12Before him are Heonjong of Joseon, Francisco Solano López, Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia, Marcellin Berthelot, Deodoro da Fonseca, and Jyotirao Phule. After him are Mangal Pandey, William Holman Hunt, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Charles De Coster, Wilhelm von Tegetthoff, and Mihály Zichy. Among people deceased in 1864, John Hanning Speke ranks 13Before him are Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron, Hong Xiuquan, Vuk Karadžić, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, William I of Württemberg, and Louise Marie Thérèse of Artois. After him are Leo von Klenze, Princess Charlotte of Denmark, Princess Hildegard of Bavaria, Jean-Jacques Ampère, Hong Tianguifu, and Aimable Pélissier.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Hanning Speke ranks 837 out of 7,765Before him are Daniel Rutherford (1749), Pete Townshend (1945), Petula Clark (1932), Osborne Reynolds (1842), Joseph Chamberlain (1836), and Malcolm IV of Scotland (1141). After him are William Webb Ellis (1806), Colin Maclaurin (1698), Owen Tudor (1400), Peter Finch (1916), Robert Graves (1895), and Richard Hamilton (1922).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, John Hanning Speke ranks 14Before him are Rudolf Abel (1903), Gertrude Bell (1868), John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (1650), Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (1738), John Franklin (1786), and Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby (1861). After him are John Hawkins (1532), James Paul Moody (1887), William Bligh (1754), Harold Lowe (1882), Paddy Roy Bates (1921), and Jack Phillips (1887).