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Johnny Appleseed

1774 - 1845

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Johnny Appleseed (born Johnathan Chapman; September 26, 1774 – March 18, 1845) was an American pioneer nurseryman who introduced apple trees to large parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and present-day Ontario, as well as the northern counties of present-day West Virginia. He became an American legend while still alive, due to his kind, generous ways, his leadership in conservation, and the symbolic importance he attributed to apples. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johnny Appleseed has received more than 4,020,473 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Johnny Appleseed is the 82nd most popular celebrity (down from 80th in 2019), the 4,490th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,168th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular American Celebrity.

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  • 4.0M

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  • 50.37

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.88

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.11

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among CELEBRITIES

Among celebrities, Johnny Appleseed ranks 82 out of 181Before him are Joseph Augustus Zarelli, Michel Lotito, Hana Brady, Roy Sullivan, Walther Kadow, and Kim Ung-yong. After him are Apasra Hongsakula, Herbert Norkus, Norma Cappagli, William Masters, Anarkali, and Susana Duijm.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1774, Johnny Appleseed ranks 26Before him are Pierre Rode, Karl Mollweide, Václav Tomášek, Daniel D. Tompkins, Marie-Denise Villers, and Meriwether Lewis. After him are Princess Amalie of Hesse-Homburg, Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, Edward Charles Howard, Frederick IV, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Elizabeth Ann Seton, and Juan Aldama. Among people deceased in 1845, Johnny Appleseed ranks 28Before him are Nikoloz Baratashvili, Jónas Hallgrímsson, Wazir Akbar Khan, Rafael Urdaneta, Henrik Steffens, and Christian Frederik Hansen. After him are Nils Gabriel Sefström, Elizabeth Fry, Antoine Risso, Zaman Shah Durrani, Francisco Manuel Blanco, and Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Johnny Appleseed ranks 4,490 out of 18,182Before him are Cecil Taylor (1929), Ray Dalio (1949), Beatrice Straight (1914), Dom DeLuise (1933), Dee Wallace (1948), and Blind Lemon Jefferson (1893). After him are Gordon Matta-Clark (1943), Herb Ritts (1952), Esther Lederberg (1922), Roderick MacKinnon (1956), J. J. Johnson (1924), and Christine Jorgensen (1926).

Among CELEBRITIES In United States

Among celebrities born in United States, Johnny Appleseed ranks 32Before him are Sally Hemings (1773), Evelyn McHale (1923), Kourtney Kardashian (1979), Ethel Kennedy (1928), Joseph Augustus Zarelli (1953), and Roy Sullivan (1912). After him are William Masters (1915), Jeane Dixon (1904), Genie (1957), Virginia Dare (1587), Carol Morris (1936), and Miriam Stevenson (1933).