1790 - 1842
Jules Sébastien César Dumont d'Urville (French pronunciation: [ʒyl dymɔ̃ dyʁvil]; 23 May 1790 – 8 May 1842) was a French explorer and naval officer who explored the south and western Pacific, Australia, New Zealand, and Antarctica. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jules Dumont d'Urville has received more than 245,280 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 45 in 2019). Jules Dumont d'Urville is the 74th most popular explorer (down from 62nd in 2019), the 956th most popular biography from France (down from 799th in 2019) and the 7th most popular French Explorer.
Jules dumont d'urville is most famous for being the first person to circumnavigate the globe in a hot air balloon.
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Among explorers, Jules Dumont d'Urville ranks 74 out of 405. Before him are Diego Columbus, Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar, Alonso de Ojeda, Vicente Yáñez Pinzón, Davy Crockett, and Willem Janszoon. After him are Calamity Jane, Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira, Ferdinand von Wrangel, Richard E. Byrd, Benjamin of Tudela, and Ármin Vámbéry.
1479 - 1527
HPI: 62.90
Rank: 68
1465 - 1524
HPI: 62.86
Rank: 69
1466 - 1515
HPI: 62.85
Rank: 70
1460 - 1514
HPI: 62.84
Rank: 71
1786 - 1836
HPI: 62.67
Rank: 72
1570 - 1631
HPI: 62.55
Rank: 73
1790 - 1842
HPI: 62.48
Rank: 74
1852 - 1903
HPI: 62.48
Rank: 75
1542 - 1595
HPI: 62.38
Rank: 76
1797 - 1870
HPI: 62.35
Rank: 77
1888 - 1957
HPI: 62.34
Rank: 78
1130 - 1173
HPI: 62.26
Rank: 79
1832 - 1913
HPI: 61.86
Rank: 80
Among people born in 1790, Jules Dumont d'Urville ranks 8. Before him are Leopold I of Belgium, Sunjo of Joseon, George Everest, August Ferdinand Möbius, John Tyler, and Alphonse de Lamartine. After him are Nicolas Chauvin, John Frederic Daniell, Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden, Robert Stirling, Adolph Diesterweg, and Leopold, Prince of Salerno. Among people deceased in 1842, Jules Dumont d'Urville ranks 7. Before him are Stendhal, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Luigi Cherubini, Constanze Mozart, Bernardo O'Higgins, and Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans. After him are Clemens Brentano, Bon-Adrien Jeannot de Moncey, Dominique Jean Larrey, Paul Frederick, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Pierre Cambronne, and Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi.
1790 - 1865
HPI: 73.68
Rank: 2
1790 - 1834
HPI: 68.95
Rank: 3
1790 - 1866
HPI: 68.88
Rank: 4
1790 - 1868
HPI: 68.49
Rank: 5
1790 - 1862
HPI: 67.77
Rank: 6
1790 - 1869
HPI: 67.69
Rank: 7
1790 - 1842
HPI: 62.48
Rank: 8
1790 - 1900
HPI: 61.56
Rank: 9
1790 - 1845
HPI: 61.52
Rank: 10
1790 - 1852
HPI: 60.04
Rank: 11
1790 - 1878
HPI: 58.23
Rank: 12
1790 - 1866
HPI: 57.61
Rank: 13
1790 - 1851
HPI: 57.22
Rank: 14
1783 - 1842
HPI: 79.18
Rank: 1
1755 - 1842
HPI: 71.12
Rank: 2
1760 - 1842
HPI: 69.58
Rank: 3
1762 - 1842
HPI: 69.48
Rank: 4
1778 - 1842
HPI: 63.76
Rank: 5
1810 - 1842
HPI: 63.71
Rank: 6
1790 - 1842
HPI: 62.48
Rank: 7
1778 - 1842
HPI: 62.15
Rank: 8
1754 - 1842
HPI: 60.70
Rank: 9
1766 - 1842
HPI: 60.10
Rank: 10
1800 - 1842
HPI: 59.88
Rank: 11
1770 - 1842
HPI: 59.56
Rank: 12
1773 - 1842
HPI: 59.09
Rank: 13
Among people born in France, Jules Dumont d'Urville ranks 956 out of 6,011. Before him are Charles III, Prince of Monaco (1818), Jean de Lattre de Tassigny (1889), Thomas Couture (1815), Gilbert Bécaud (1927), Stéphanie de Beauharnais (1789), and André Michel Lwoff (1902). After him are Francis, Count of Vendôme (1470), Marie Laforêt (1939), Jean Anouilh (1910), Louis Joseph, Duke of Vendôme (1654), Pierre Brice (1929), and Adela of Champagne (1140).
1818 - 1889
HPI: 62.51
Rank: 950
1889 - 1952
HPI: 62.51
Rank: 951
1815 - 1879
HPI: 62.51
Rank: 952
1927 - 2001
HPI: 62.50
Rank: 953
1789 - 1860
HPI: 62.50
Rank: 954
1902 - 1994
HPI: 62.48
Rank: 955
1790 - 1842
HPI: 62.48
Rank: 956
1470 - 1495
HPI: 62.47
Rank: 957
1939 - 2019
HPI: 62.47
Rank: 958
1910 - 1987
HPI: 62.46
Rank: 959
1654 - 1712
HPI: 62.46
Rank: 960
1929 - 2015
HPI: 62.45
Rank: 961
1140 - 1206
HPI: 62.44
Rank: 962
Among explorers born in France, Jules Dumont d'Urville ranks 7. Before him are Jacques Cousteau (1910), Jacques Cartier (1491), Pytheas (-380), Louis Antoine de Bougainville (1729), Samuel de Champlain (1567), and Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse (1741). After him are Jeanne Baret (1740), Charles Marie de La Condamine (1701), Jean de Béthencourt (1362), René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (1643), Jean Chardin (1643), and Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier (1705).
1910 - 1997
HPI: 75.04
Rank: 1
1491 - 1557
HPI: 74.78
Rank: 2
380 BC - 310 BC
HPI: 69.15
Rank: 3
1729 - 1811
HPI: 65.43
Rank: 4
1567 - 1635
HPI: 64.39
Rank: 5
1741 - 1788
HPI: 64.11
Rank: 6
1790 - 1842
HPI: 62.48
Rank: 7
1740 - 1807
HPI: 61.64
Rank: 8
1701 - 1774
HPI: 61.57
Rank: 9
1362 - 1425
HPI: 61.10
Rank: 10
1643 - 1687
HPI: 58.00
Rank: 11
1643 - 1713
HPI: 57.96
Rank: 12
1705 - 1786
HPI: 56.58
Rank: 13