1776 - 1839
Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope (12 March 1776 – 23 June 1839) was a British adventurer, writer, antiquarian, and one of the most famous travellers of her age. Her excavation of Ascalon in 1815 is considered the first to use modern archaeological principles, and her use of a medieval Italian document is described as "one of the earliest uses of textual sources by field archaeologists". Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lady Hester Stanhope has received more than 186,082 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Lady Hester Stanhope is the 221st most popular explorer, the 1,848th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,845th in 2019) and the 26th most popular British Explorer.
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Among explorers, Lady Hester Stanhope ranks 221 out of 405. Before her are Cristoforo Buondelmonti, Alejandro Malaspina, René Caillié, Jean-Baptiste Charcot, Ruy López de Villalobos, and Wulfstan of Hedeby. After her are Julius Popper, Niccolò de' Conti, Nikolaus Federmann, Thorvald Asvaldsson, Pedro Arias Dávila, and Rodrigo de Bastidas.
1385 - 1430
HPI: 53.94
Rank: 215
1754 - 1810
HPI: 53.93
Rank: 216
1799 - 1838
HPI: 53.90
Rank: 217
1867 - 1936
HPI: 53.90
Rank: 218
1500 - 1544
HPI: 53.86
Rank: 219
800 - 850
HPI: 53.67
Rank: 220
1776 - 1839
HPI: 53.67
Rank: 221
1857 - 1893
HPI: 53.66
Rank: 222
1395 - 1469
HPI: 53.53
Rank: 223
1505 - 1542
HPI: 53.52
Rank: 224
950 - 980
HPI: 53.43
Rank: 225
1443 - 1531
HPI: 53.38
Rank: 226
1460 - 1527
HPI: 53.37
Rank: 227
Among people born in 1776, Lady Hester Stanhope ranks 20. Before her are Pehr Henrik Ling, Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński, Archduchess Maria Leopoldine of Austria-Este, Peter Barlow, Jean Lafitte, and Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus. After her are Vasily Tropinin, Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh, Bernardino Drovetti, Karl Friedrich Burdach, Vasily Golovnin, and Friedrich Stromeyer. Among people deceased in 1839, Lady Hester Stanhope ranks 21. Before her are Lord William Bentinck, Joseph Anton Koch, Andrew Dũng-Lạc, Aloysia Weber, Mikhail Speransky, and William Murdoch. After her are Gaspard de Prony, Duchess Therese of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths, Dorothea von Schlegel, Denis Davydov, and Hugues-Bernard Maret, duc de Bassano.
1776 - 1839
HPI: 58.31
Rank: 14
1776 - 1853
HPI: 57.35
Rank: 15
1776 - 1848
HPI: 56.64
Rank: 16
1776 - 1862
HPI: 55.73
Rank: 17
1776 - 1826
HPI: 55.03
Rank: 18
1776 - 1837
HPI: 54.00
Rank: 19
1776 - 1839
HPI: 53.67
Rank: 20
1776 - 1857
HPI: 53.56
Rank: 21
1776 - 1857
HPI: 53.26
Rank: 22
1776 - 1852
HPI: 52.87
Rank: 23
1776 - 1847
HPI: 52.71
Rank: 24
1776 - 1831
HPI: 52.49
Rank: 25
1776 - 1835
HPI: 52.33
Rank: 26
1774 - 1839
HPI: 55.57
Rank: 15
1768 - 1839
HPI: 55.25
Rank: 16
1795 - 1839
HPI: 55.19
Rank: 17
1760 - 1839
HPI: 54.91
Rank: 18
1772 - 1839
HPI: 54.52
Rank: 19
1754 - 1839
HPI: 54.37
Rank: 20
1776 - 1839
HPI: 53.67
Rank: 21
1755 - 1839
HPI: 53.14
Rank: 22
1773 - 1839
HPI: 52.47
Rank: 23
1759 - 1839
HPI: 52.38
Rank: 24
1764 - 1839
HPI: 52.25
Rank: 25
1784 - 1839
HPI: 51.49
Rank: 26
1763 - 1839
HPI: 51.32
Rank: 27
Among people born in United Kingdom, Lady Hester Stanhope ranks 1,848 out of 7,765. Before her are John Webster (1578), George Grenville (1712), Ronald Colman (1891), Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester (1355), Hamnet Shakespeare (1585), and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836). After her are Tony Sheridan (1940), George Meredith (1828), Jojo Moyes (1969), Henry Tandey (1891), Richard Long (1945), and Charles Boycott (1832).
1578 - 1634
HPI: 53.69
Rank: 1,842
1712 - 1770
HPI: 53.69
Rank: 1,843
1891 - 1958
HPI: 53.68
Rank: 1,844
1355 - 1397
HPI: 53.68
Rank: 1,845
1585 - 1596
HPI: 53.67
Rank: 1,846
1836 - 1917
HPI: 53.67
Rank: 1,847
1776 - 1839
HPI: 53.67
Rank: 1,848
1940 - 2013
HPI: 53.66
Rank: 1,849
1828 - 1909
HPI: 53.66
Rank: 1,850
1969 - Present
HPI: 53.63
Rank: 1,851
1891 - 1977
HPI: 53.63
Rank: 1,852
1945 - Present
HPI: 53.62
Rank: 1,853
1832 - 1897
HPI: 53.62
Rank: 1,854
Among explorers born in United Kingdom, Lady Hester Stanhope ranks 26. Before her are Alexander Mackenzie (1764), Samuel Wallis (1728), Matthew Flinders (1774), James Bruce (1730), John Rolfe (1585), and Mark Sykes (1879). After her are Douglas Mawson (1882), John Byron (1723), Samuel Baker (1821), William Parry (1790), Anthony Jenkinson (1529), and Richard Chancellor (1521).
1764 - 1820
HPI: 57.13
Rank: 20
1728 - 1795
HPI: 56.35
Rank: 21
1774 - 1814
HPI: 56.00
Rank: 22
1730 - 1794
HPI: 54.60
Rank: 23
1585 - 1622
HPI: 54.54
Rank: 24
1879 - 1919
HPI: 54.50
Rank: 25
1776 - 1839
HPI: 53.67
Rank: 26
1882 - 1958
HPI: 53.26
Rank: 27
1723 - 1786
HPI: 53.09
Rank: 28
1821 - 1893
HPI: 52.86
Rank: 29
1790 - 1855
HPI: 52.40
Rank: 30
1529 - 1610
HPI: 52.32
Rank: 31
1521 - 1556
HPI: 51.53
Rank: 32