1532 - 1592
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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Among writers, Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa ranks 2,396 out of 5,755. Before 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.
1920 - 2019
HPI: 53.73
Rank: 2,390
1 BC - 14
HPI: 53.72
Rank: 2,391
1873 - 1939
HPI: 53.72
Rank: 2,392
1955 - Present
HPI: 53.72
Rank: 2,393
1950 - 2016
HPI: 53.72
Rank: 2,394
1958 - Present
HPI: 53.71
Rank: 2,395
1532 - 1592
HPI: 53.71
Rank: 2,396
1880 - 1961
HPI: 53.71
Rank: 2,397
1604 - 1657
HPI: 53.70
Rank: 2,398
1906 - 1964
HPI: 53.70
Rank: 2,399
1926 - 2021
HPI: 53.70
Rank: 2,400
1578 - 1634
HPI: 53.69
Rank: 2,401
1804 - 1891
HPI: 53.69
Rank: 2,402
Among people born in 1532, Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa ranks 11. Before 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 17. Before 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.
1532 - 1590
HPI: 58.12
Rank: 5
1532 - 1603
HPI: 56.98
Rank: 6
1532 - 1585
HPI: 56.90
Rank: 7
1532 - 1590
HPI: 55.20
Rank: 8
1532 - 1592
HPI: 54.69
Rank: 9
1532 - 1597
HPI: 54.32
Rank: 10
1532 - 1592
HPI: 53.71
Rank: 11
1532 - 1605
HPI: 53.11
Rank: 12
1532 - 1599
HPI: 52.82
Rank: 13
1532 - 1589
HPI: 51.89
Rank: 14
1532 - 1599
HPI: 51.77
Rank: 15
1532 - 1573
HPI: 50.56
Rank: 16
1532 - 1568
HPI: 50.29
Rank: 17
1516 - 1592
HPI: 57.11
Rank: 11
1535 - 1592
HPI: 56.32
Rank: 12
1499 - 1592
HPI: 55.52
Rank: 13
1532 - 1592
HPI: 54.69
Rank: 14
1535 - 1592
HPI: 54.45
Rank: 15
1543 - 1592
HPI: 54.00
Rank: 16
1532 - 1592
HPI: 53.71
Rank: 17
1555 - 1592
HPI: 51.11
Rank: 18
1540 - 1592
HPI: 50.20
Rank: 19
1520 - 1592
HPI: 48.99
Rank: 20
1558 - 1592
HPI: 46.92
Rank: 21
Among people born in Spain, Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa ranks 796 out of 2,932. Before 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).
1930 - 2016
HPI: 53.80
Rank: 790
1851 - 1896
HPI: 53.79
Rank: 791
1925 - 2010
HPI: 53.77
Rank: 792
1494 - 1560
HPI: 53.76
Rank: 793
1762 - 1821
HPI: 53.75
Rank: 794
642 - 690
HPI: 53.71
Rank: 795
1532 - 1592
HPI: 53.71
Rank: 796
1380 - 1444
HPI: 53.71
Rank: 797
1926 - 2021
HPI: 53.70
Rank: 798
1936 - 2020
HPI: 53.69
Rank: 799
1916 - 1978
HPI: 53.69
Rank: 800
1528 - 1599
HPI: 53.68
Rank: 801
1936 - 2020
HPI: 53.62
Rank: 802
Among writers born in Spain, Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa ranks 90. Before 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).
1110 - 1180
HPI: 54.66
Rank: 84
1468 - 1529
HPI: 54.37
Rank: 85
1852 - 1901
HPI: 54.28
Rank: 86
1330 - 1409
HPI: 54.11
Rank: 87
400 - 400
HPI: 54.08
Rank: 88
1886 - 1978
HPI: 53.94
Rank: 89
1532 - 1592
HPI: 53.71
Rank: 90
1926 - 2021
HPI: 53.70
Rank: 91
1060 - 1138
HPI: 53.62
Rank: 92
1921 - 2004
HPI: 53.52
Rank: 93
1505 - 1541
HPI: 53.37
Rank: 94
1906 - 2009
HPI: 53.34
Rank: 95
1283 - 1350
HPI: 53.32
Rank: 96