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Juan de Fuca

1536 - 1602

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Juan de Fuca (10 June 1536, Cefalonia – 23 July 1602, Cefalonia) was a Greek sailor who served Philip II of Spain. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Juan de Fuca has received more than 402,810 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Juan de Fuca is the 365th most popular explorer (down from 344th in 2019), the 691st most popular biography from Greece (down from 657th in 2019) and the most popular Greek Explorer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 400k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.14

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.81

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.32

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Juan de Fuca ranks 365 out of 498. Before him are Georgy Sedov, Stepan Krasheninnikov, George Bass, György Almásy, Khariton Laptev, and Jean Louis Marie Poiret. After him are Fyodor Konyukhov, George Kennan, Lauge Koch, Ivan Moskvitin, Juan de Oñate, and Arnaud-Michel d'Abbadie.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1536, Juan de Fuca ranks 21. Before him are Philibert, Margrave of Baden-Baden, Konoe Sakihisa, Juan de Mariana, Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, Caspar Olevian, and Juan Fernández. After him is Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset. Among people deceased in 1602, Juan de Fuca ranks 14. Before him are Li Zhi, Friedrich Wilhelm I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Catherine of Brandenburg-Küstrin, Hedwig of Brandenburg, Duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Kanijeli Siyavuş Pasha, and Caspar Peucer. After him is Thomas Morley.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Juan de Fuca ranks 691 out of 1,024. Before him are Gregory VII of Constantinople (1850), Filippos Karvelas (1877), Pherecrates (-450), Themistoklis Sofoulis (1860), Amythaon (null), and Thomas Xenakis (1875). After him are Leo Allatius (1586), Sotirios Versis (1876), Tolmides (-500), Giorgos Karagounis (1977), Eva Kaili (1978), and Turhan Pasha Përmeti (1846).

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Among EXPLORERS In Greece

Among explorers born in Greece, Juan de Fuca ranks 1. After him are Androsthenes of Thasos (-400).

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