1774 - 1814
Captain Matthew Flinders (16 March 1774 – 19 July 1814) was a British navigator and cartographer who led the first inshore circumnavigation of mainland Australia, then called New Holland. He is also credited as being the first person to utilise the name Australia to describe the entirety of that continent including Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania), a title he regarded as being "more agreeable to the ear" than previous names such as Terra Australis.Flinders was involved in several voyages of discovery between 1791 and 1803, the most famous of which are the circumnavigation of Australia and an earlier expedition when he and George Bass confirmed that Van Diemen's Land was an island. While returning to Britain in 1803, Flinders was arrested by the French governor at Isle de France (Mauritius). Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Matthew Flinders has received more than 1,023,388 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Matthew Flinders is the 165th most popular explorer (up from 194th in 2019), the 1,437th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,698th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular British Explorer.
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Among explorers, Matthew Flinders ranks 165 out of 405. Before him are Gerónimo de Aguilar, Gil Eanes, Paulo da Gama, Pedro Mascarenhas, Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec, and Lancelotto Malocello. After him are Vasily Tatishchev, Filipa Moniz Perestrelo, Jim Bridger, Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, Luís Vaz de Torres, and Cornelis de Houtman.
1489 - 1531
HPI: 56.14
Rank: 159
HPI: 56.12
Rank: 160
1465 - 1499
HPI: 56.11
Rank: 161
1484 - 1555
HPI: 56.11
Rank: 162
1734 - 1797
HPI: 56.09
Rank: 163
1270 - 1336
HPI: 56.04
Rank: 164
1774 - 1814
HPI: 56.00
Rank: 165
1686 - 1750
HPI: 55.81
Rank: 166
1455 - 1485
HPI: 55.80
Rank: 167
1804 - 1881
HPI: 55.66
Rank: 168
1605 - 1689
HPI: 55.64
Rank: 169
1565 - 1614
HPI: 55.64
Rank: 170
1565 - 1599
HPI: 55.61
Rank: 171
Among people born in 1774, Matthew Flinders ranks 16. Before him are Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, Charles Bell, William Henry, Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall, Christian Leopold von Buch, and Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge. After him are Lord William Bentinck, Francis Baily, Robert Southey, Pierre Rode, Karl Mollweide, and Václav Tomášek. Among people deceased in 1814, Matthew Flinders ranks 12. Before him are Benjamin Thompson, Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Marie-Louise O'Murphy, Charles-Joseph, 7th Prince of Ligne, Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt, and Frederick Christian II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg. After him are Louis-Sébastien Mercier, Louis François Joseph, Prince of Conti, Georg Joseph Vogler, Emich Carl, 2nd Prince of Leiningen, Aleijadinho, and Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1st Earl of Minto.
1774 - 1833
HPI: 58.83
Rank: 10
1774 - 1842
HPI: 57.75
Rank: 11
1774 - 1836
HPI: 57.51
Rank: 12
1774 - 1856
HPI: 56.75
Rank: 13
1774 - 1853
HPI: 56.68
Rank: 14
1774 - 1850
HPI: 56.60
Rank: 15
1774 - 1814
HPI: 56.00
Rank: 16
1774 - 1839
HPI: 55.57
Rank: 17
1774 - 1844
HPI: 54.24
Rank: 18
1774 - 1843
HPI: 54.22
Rank: 19
1774 - 1830
HPI: 53.54
Rank: 20
1774 - 1825
HPI: 52.48
Rank: 21
1774 - 1850
HPI: 52.07
Rank: 22
1753 - 1814
HPI: 64.33
Rank: 6
1737 - 1814
HPI: 61.36
Rank: 7
1737 - 1814
HPI: 60.74
Rank: 8
1735 - 1814
HPI: 60.38
Rank: 9
1757 - 1814
HPI: 56.59
Rank: 10
1765 - 1814
HPI: 56.23
Rank: 11
1774 - 1814
HPI: 56.00
Rank: 12
1740 - 1814
HPI: 55.74
Rank: 13
1734 - 1814
HPI: 55.34
Rank: 14
1749 - 1814
HPI: 54.81
Rank: 15
1763 - 1814
HPI: 54.44
Rank: 16
1738 - 1814
HPI: 54.43
Rank: 17
1751 - 1814
HPI: 53.99
Rank: 18
Among people born in United Kingdom, Matthew Flinders ranks 1,437 out of 7,765. Before him are Robert Shaw (1927), Patrick Macnee (1922), Alvin Lee (1944), Albert Ketèlbey (1875), Lucinda Riley (1965), and Gordon Ramsay (1966). After him are Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel (1870), Gilbert Ryle (1900), Edward Fox (1937), George Young (1946), Beorhtric of Wessex (800), and Thomas Arne (1710).
1927 - 1978
HPI: 56.03
Rank: 1,431
1922 - 2015
HPI: 56.02
Rank: 1,432
1944 - 2013
HPI: 56.02
Rank: 1,433
1875 - 1959
HPI: 56.02
Rank: 1,434
1965 - 2021
HPI: 56.01
Rank: 1,435
1966 - Present
HPI: 56.00
Rank: 1,436
1774 - 1814
HPI: 56.00
Rank: 1,437
1870 - 1963
HPI: 56.00
Rank: 1,438
1900 - 1976
HPI: 55.99
Rank: 1,439
1937 - Present
HPI: 55.98
Rank: 1,440
1946 - 2017
HPI: 55.98
Rank: 1,441
800 - 802
HPI: 55.98
Rank: 1,442
1710 - 1778
HPI: 55.98
Rank: 1,443
Among explorers born in United Kingdom, Matthew Flinders ranks 22. Before him are Thomas Cavendish (1560), George Vancouver (1757), Isabella Bird (1831), Martin Frobisher (1535), Alexander Mackenzie (1764), and Samuel Wallis (1728). After him are James Bruce (1730), John Rolfe (1585), Mark Sykes (1879), Lady Hester Stanhope (1776), Douglas Mawson (1882), and John Byron (1723).
1560 - 1592
HPI: 59.12
Rank: 16
1757 - 1798
HPI: 58.80
Rank: 17
1831 - 1904
HPI: 58.36
Rank: 18
1535 - 1594
HPI: 57.31
Rank: 19
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