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Knut Haugland

1917 - 2009

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Knut Magne Haugland, DSO, MM, (23 September 1917 – 25 December 2009) was a resistance fighter and noted explorer from Norway, who accompanied Thor Heyerdahl on his famous 1947 Kon-Tiki expedition. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Knut Haugland has received more than 128,146 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Knut Haugland is the 298th most popular explorer (down from 180th in 2019), the 194th most popular biography from Norway (down from 125th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Norwegian Explorer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.48

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.55

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Knut Haugland ranks 298 out of 405. Before him are Alexander Gordon Laing, Gonçalo Velho Cabral, Bertrand Piccard, Meriwether Lewis, Pierre Poivre, and Albert von Le Coq. After him are Thekla Resvoll, Theodor Kotschy, Sverre Hassel, Otto Finsch, Hermann Wissmann, and Irina Solovyova.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Knut Haugland ranks 174. Before him are Olga Sanfirova, Zainab al Ghazali, Domenico Bartolucci, David Tomlinson, Asima Chatterjee, and Robert Byrd. After him are André Waterkeyn, Yuri Lyubimov, Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin, Lena Horne, Musine Kokalari, and Johannes Bobrowski. Among people deceased in 2009, Knut Haugland ranks 164. Before him are Dan O'Bannon, Veronika Dudarova, Tullio Pinelli, Adolf Merckle, Mike Bongiorno, and Dom DeLuise. After him are Otto Graf Lambsdorff, Natalya Estemirova, Peter Shirayanagi, Venetia Burney, Janet Jagan, and Zequinha.

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In Norway

Among people born in Norway, Knut Haugland ranks 194 out of 927. Before him are Agathe Backer Grøndahl (1847), Haakon the Young (1232), Per Petterson (1952), Egil Danielsen (1933), Jacob Aall (1773), and Kjetil André Aamodt (1971). After him are Paul Waaktaar-Savoy (1961), Thekla Resvoll (1871), Fred Anton Maier (1938), Erling Skakke (1115), Christopher Hansteen (1784), and Aasmund Olavsson Vinje (1818).

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Among EXPLORERS In Norway

Among explorers born in Norway, Knut Haugland ranks 17. Before him are Helmer Hanssen (1870), Ohthere of Hålogaland (900), Thorvald Asvaldsson (950), Carl Anton Larsen (1860), Helge Ingstad (1899), and Jens Munk (1579). After him are Thekla Resvoll (1871), Sverre Hassel (1876), Kristian Prestrud (1881), Grímur Kamban (801), Olav Bjaaland (1873), and Finn Ronne (1899).

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