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Leif Erikson

970 - 1020

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Leif Erikson, also known as Leif the Lucky (c. 970s – c. 1018 to 1025), was a Norse explorer who is thought to have been the first European to set foot on continental America, approximately half a millennium before Christopher Columbus. According to the sagas of Icelanders, he established a Norse settlement at Vinland, which is usually interpreted as being coastal North America. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leif Erikson has received more than 8,102,618 page views. His biography is available in 96 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 89 in 2019). Leif Erikson is the 23rd most popular explorer (down from 21st in 2019), the most popular biography from Iceland and the most popular Icelander Explorer.

Leif Ericson is most famous for being the first European to discover North America.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Leif Erikson ranks 23 out of 405Before him are Fridtjof Nansen, Erik the Red, Xuanzang, Jacques Cousteau, Pedro Álvares Cabral, and Jacques Cartier. After him are Vitus Bering, Juan Sebastián Elcano, Thor Heyerdahl, Willem Barentsz, Henry Morton Stanley, and Vasco Núñez de Balboa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 970, Leif Erikson ranks 1After him are Pope Sergius IV, Pope John XVIII, Bruno of Querfurt, Fulk III, Count of Anjou, Oldřich, Duke of Bohemia, Otto, Duke of Lower Lorraine, Al-Sharif al-Radi, Conrad I, Duke of Carinthia, and Åsta Gudbrandsdatter. Among people deceased in 1020, Leif Erikson ranks 1After him are Ferdowsi, Abhinavagupta, Manuel Erotikos Komnenos, Al-Sijzi, Trdat, Malusha, Melus of Bari, Gagik I of Armenia, Åsta Gudbrandsdatter, and Ælfric of Eynsham.

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In Iceland

Among people born in Iceland, Leif Erikson ranks 1 out of 180After him are Snorri Sturluson (1179), Halldór Laxness (1902), Vigdís Finnbogadóttir (1930), Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir (1942), Björk (1965), Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson (1943), Bjarni Herjólfsson (966), Egill Skallagrímsson (904), Ásgeir Ásgeirsson (1894), Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir (1000), and Jón Sigurðsson (1811).

Among EXPLORERS In Iceland

Among explorers born in Iceland, Leif Erikson ranks 1After him are Bjarni Herjólfsson (966), Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir (1000), and Thorvald Eiriksson (972).