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Juan Fernández

1536 - 1604

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Juan Fernández (c. 1536 – c. 1604) was a Spanish explorer and navigator in the Pacific regions of the Viceroyalty of Peru and Captaincy General of Chile west of colonial South America. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Juan Fernández has received more than 26,501 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Juan Fernández is the 352nd most popular explorer (down from 267th in 2019), the 1,310th most popular biography from Spain (down from 978th in 2019) and the 50th most popular Spanish Explorer.

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  • 49.83

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.46

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.61

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Juan Fernández ranks 352 out of 498. Before him are John Byron, Gonçalo Velho Cabral, Oscar Dickson, Édouard-Alfred Martel, Domingo Martínez de Irala, and Pascual de Andagoya. After him are Florence Baker, Irina Solovyova, Miguel Corte-Real, John Wesley Powell, Samuel Baker, and Álvaro de Saavedra Cerón.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1536, Juan Fernández ranks 20. Before him are Marcantonio Memmo, Philibert, Margrave of Baden-Baden, Konoe Sakihisa, Juan de Mariana, Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, and Caspar Olevian. After him are Juan de Fuca, and Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset. Among people deceased in 1604, Juan Fernández ranks 15. Before him are Ercole, Lord of Monaco, Isabella Andreini, Otto Henry, Count Palatine of Sulzbach, Francesco Barozzi, Louis IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Marburg, and Ernest Frederick, Margrave of Baden-Durlach. After him is William Morgan.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Juan Fernández ranks 1,310 out of 3,355. Before him are José Luis López Vázquez (1922), Pero López de Ayala (1332), Louis Alphonse, Duke of Anjou (1974), Belén Rueda (1965), Domingo Martínez de Irala (1509), and Pascual de Andagoya (1495). After him are José Callejón (1987), Juan de Palafox y Mendoza (1600), Sergej Milinković-Savić (1995), Carolina Coronado (1820), Baltasar Garzón (1955), and Iván Helguera (1975).

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Among EXPLORERS In Spain

Among explorers born in Spain, Juan Fernández ranks 50. Before him are Sebastián Vizcaíno (1548), Francisco de Ulloa (1501), Pedro Tafur (1410), Félix de Azara (1742), Domingo Martínez de Irala (1509), and Pascual de Andagoya (1495). After him are Álvaro de Saavedra Cerón (1500), Gaspar de Portolá (1716), García López de Cárdenas (1500), Alonso Álvarez de Pineda (1494), and Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón (1478).

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