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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 by 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 3,172,444 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Kit Carson is the 1,097th most popular military personnel (down from 1,049th in 2019), the 3,534th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,547th in 2019) and the 54th most popular American Military Personnel.

Memorability Metrics

  • 3.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.55

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.30

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.60

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Kit Carson ranks 1,097 out of 1,468. Before him are Maciej Sulkiewicz, George Meade, Milivoj Ašner, Hitoshi Imamura, József Alvinczi, and Eugen Meindl. After him are Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow, René Schneider, Félix Rodríguez, August Schmidhuber, Stanisław Maczek, and Naser Orić.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1809, Kit Carson ranks 42. Before him are Edward FitzGerald, Heinrich Hoffmann, Matsumura Sōkon, Karl Koch, Joseph Jenkins Roberts, and James Glaisher. After him are Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn, Cyrus McCormick, Rutherford Alcock, Louis Charles Delescluze, Manuel Montt, and James David Forbes. Among people deceased in 1868, Kit Carson ranks 30. Before him are Nakano Takeko, Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, Carlo Matteucci, Venancio Flores, Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, and Bhanubhakta Acharya. After him are Ferenc Gyulay, Wilhelm Griesinger, Claude Pouillet, Peter Julian Eymard, Dmitry Pisarev, and Moritz Hauptmann.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Kit Carson ranks 3,534 out of 18,182. Before him are Dutch Schultz (1902), Mitch Pileggi (1952), James Tiptree Jr. (1915), Doug Savant (1964), Jennifer Doudna (1964), and Peter Boyle (1935). After him are The Big Bopper (1930), Lloyd Bacon (1889), Beatrice Wood (1893), Paul Kantner (1941), Warren Sturgis McCulloch (1898), and Arthur Melvin Okun (1928).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United States

Among military personnels born in United States, Kit Carson ranks 54. Before him are John Basilone (1916), David Petraeus (1952), Holland Smith (1882), Monte Melkonian (1957), Lucius D. Clay (1898), and Alexander Vandegrift (1887). After him are Doris Miller (1919), George Dewey (1837), Charles Robert Jenkins (1940), Thomas C. Kinkaid (1888), Marc Mitscher (1887), and James M. Gavin (1907).

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