MILITARY PERSONNEL

Kit Carson

1809 - 1868

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Christopher Houston Carson (December 24, 1809 – May 23, 1868) was an American frontiersman. He was a fur trapper, wilderness guide, Indian agent and U.S. Army officer. He became a frontier legend in his own lifetime through biographies and news articles; exaggerated versions of his exploits were the subject of dime novels. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kit Carson has received more than 3,354,768 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Kit Carson is the 1,329th most popular military personnel (down from 1,097th in 2019), the 3,913th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,524th in 2019) and the 63rd most popular American Military Personnel.

Memorability Metrics

  • 3.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.70

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.14

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.78

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Kit Carson ranks 1,329 out of 2,058. Before him are Baba Nobuharu, Vicente Rojo Lluch, Kazuo Sakamaki, Tommy Franks, Paul Bader, and Leo of Tripoli. After him are Yevfimiy Putyatin, Gustav Fehn, Joachim Lemelsen, Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen, François de Créquy, and Adherbal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1809, Kit Carson ranks 41. Before him are Heinrich Hoffmann, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Karl Koch, Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin, Bénédict Morel, and Nikolay Muravyov-Amursky. After him are Constantin von Alvensleben, Matsumura Sōkon, Robert Cornelius, Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn, William B. Travis, and Cyrus McCormick. Among people deceased in 1868, Kit Carson ranks 36. Before him are Joseph, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, Venancio Flores, Wilhelm Griesinger, Moritz Hauptmann, Dmitry Pisarev, and Peter Julian Eymard. After him are Claude Pouillet, Giuseppe Abbati, Emanuel Leutze, Ramón María Narváez, 1st Duke of Valencia, George Arnott Walker-Arnott, and Adolphe d'Archiac.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Kit Carson ranks 3,913 out of 20,380. Before him are Tommy Franks (1945), John Rogan (1867), Stuart Rosenberg (1927), Clarence Thomas (1948), Nick Bollettieri (1931), and Hope Lange (1933). After him are Carol Potter (1948), Richard Estes (1932), Robert Crumb (1943), Earl Hines (1903), Gene Kranz (1933), and Charlie Kaufman (1958).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United States

Among military personnels born in United States, Kit Carson ranks 63. Before him are Lucius D. Clay (1898), Arleigh Burke (1901), Holland Smith (1882), Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (1887), Albert Sidney Johnston (1803), and Tommy Franks (1945). After him are Marc Mitscher (1887), Frank Serpico (1936), Anthony McAuliffe (1898), William Calley (1943), James Longstreet (1821), and Walter Short (1880).

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