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Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa

1532 - 1592

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Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa (1532–1592) was a Spanish adventurer, author, historian, mathematician, and astronomer. His birthplace is not certain and may have been Pontevedra, in Galicia, where his paternal family originated, or Alcalá de Henares in Castile, where he later is known to have studied . Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa has received more than 87,596 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa is the 2,396th most popular writer (down from 2,333rd in 2019), the 796th most popular biography from Spain (down from 759th in 2019) and the 90th most popular Spanish Writer.

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  • 2.40

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa ranks 2,396 out of 5,755Before him are Jean Starobinski, Parthenius of Nicaea, Kyōka Izumi, Siri Hustvedt, Péter Esterházy, and Keigo Higashino. After him are Mihail Sadoveanu, Menasseh Ben Israel, T. H. White, Alfonso Sastre, John Webster, and Aleksander Chodźko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1532, Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa ranks 11Before him are Francis Walsingham, Maerten de Vos, Anne of Denmark, Electress of Saxony, Archduchess Magdalena of Austria, William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, and Luís Fróis. After him are Marino Grimani, Edzard II, Count of East Frisia, Jean-Antoine de Baïf, Menocchio, Étienne Jodelle, and Anna Maria of Brunswick-Calenberg-Göttingen. Among people deceased in 1592, Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa ranks 17Before him are William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, William the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Michiel Coxie, William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, Marc'Antonio Ingegneri, and John Casimir of the Palatinate-Simmern. After him are Moderata Fonte, Alessandro Striggio, Girolamo Cassar, and Robert Greene.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa ranks 796 out of 2,932Before him are Chus Lampreave (1930), Luis Ricardo Falero (1851), Luis Molowny (1925), Domingo de Soto (1494), Juan O'Donojú (1762), and Julian of Toledo (642). After him are Joseph Albo (1380), Alfonso Sastre (1926), Adolfo Nicolás (1936), Edmundo Suárez (1916), Francisco Guerrero (1528), and Joaquín Peiró (1936).

Among WRITERS In Spain

Among writers born in Spain, Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa ranks 90Before him are Abraham ibn Daud (1110), Juan del Encina (1468), Leopoldo Alas (1852), Francesc Eiximenis (1330), Juvencus (400), and Salvador de Madariaga (1886). After him are Alfonso Sastre (1926), Moses ibn Ezra (1060), Carmen Laforet (1921), Juan de Valdés (1505), Francisco Ayala (1906), and Juan Ruiz (1283).