1867 - 1925
Percy Harrison Fawcett (18 August 1867 – disappeared 29 May 1925) was a British geographer, artillery officer, cartographer, archaeologist, and explorer of South America. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Percy Fawcett has received more than 5,288,216 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Percy Fawcett is the 560th most popular writer (down from 428th in 2019), the 441st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 323rd in 2019) and the 52nd most popular British Writer.
Percy Fawcett was an explorer who disappeared while searching for a lost city in the Amazon.
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Among writers, Percy Fawcett ranks 560 out of 5,755. Before him are Longus, Paul Lafargue, Miguel Ángel Asturias, Alfred Döblin, Wang Wei, and Faxian. After him are Saint Naum, Jacob L. Moreno, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Theocritus, Sándor Petőfi, and Mo Yan.
110 - 200
HPI: 65.60
Rank: 554
1842 - 1911
HPI: 65.59
Rank: 555
1899 - 1974
HPI: 65.58
Rank: 556
1878 - 1957
HPI: 65.57
Rank: 557
699 - 759
HPI: 65.56
Rank: 558
340 - 418
HPI: 65.54
Rank: 559
1867 - 1925
HPI: 65.50
Rank: 560
830 - 910
HPI: 65.49
Rank: 561
1889 - 1974
HPI: 65.49
Rank: 562
1922 - 2008
HPI: 65.48
Rank: 563
315 BC - 260 BC
HPI: 65.47
Rank: 564
1823 - 1849
HPI: 65.43
Rank: 565
1955 - Present
HPI: 65.40
Rank: 566
Among people born in 1867, Percy Fawcett ranks 16. Before him are Käthe Kollwitz, Emil Nolde, Maxime Weygand, Natsume Sōseki, Pierre Bonnard, and Prince Maximilian of Baden. After him are Enrique Granados, Johannes Fibiger, Stanley Baldwin, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Walther Rathenau, and Irving Fisher. Among people deceased in 1925, Percy Fawcett ranks 17. Before him are Felix Klein, Josef Breuer, Mikhail Frunze, Alexander Friedmann, Camille Flammarion, and Maria Sophie of Bavaria. After him are Wong Fei-hung, George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, Władysław Reymont, Johann Palisa, Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar, and Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf.
1867 - 1945
HPI: 66.50
Rank: 10
1867 - 1956
HPI: 66.38
Rank: 11
1867 - 1965
HPI: 66.21
Rank: 12
1867 - 1916
HPI: 66.21
Rank: 13
1867 - 1947
HPI: 66.10
Rank: 14
1867 - 1929
HPI: 65.98
Rank: 15
1867 - 1925
HPI: 65.50
Rank: 16
1867 - 1916
HPI: 65.36
Rank: 17
1867 - 1928
HPI: 65.07
Rank: 18
1867 - 1947
HPI: 64.43
Rank: 19
1867 - 1957
HPI: 64.23
Rank: 20
1867 - 1922
HPI: 64.14
Rank: 21
1867 - 1947
HPI: 64.09
Rank: 22
1849 - 1925
HPI: 66.68
Rank: 11
1842 - 1925
HPI: 66.53
Rank: 12
1885 - 1925
HPI: 66.47
Rank: 13
1888 - 1925
HPI: 66.09
Rank: 14
1842 - 1925
HPI: 65.89
Rank: 15
1841 - 1925
HPI: 65.61
Rank: 16
1867 - 1925
HPI: 65.50
Rank: 17
1925 - 1925
HPI: 64.98
Rank: 18
1859 - 1925
HPI: 64.41
Rank: 19
1867 - 1925
HPI: 63.87
Rank: 20
1848 - 1925
HPI: 63.56
Rank: 21
1872 - 1925
HPI: 63.27
Rank: 22
1852 - 1925
HPI: 63.21
Rank: 23
Among people born in United Kingdom, Percy Fawcett ranks 441 out of 7,765. Before him are George Mallory (1886), Eadred (923), Hugh Grant (1960), Gary Moore (1952), Alec Douglas-Home (1903), and Joseph Merrick (1862). After him are Christopher Nolan (1970), Henry Fox Talbot (1800), David Attenborough (1926), James I of Scotland (1394), Robert II of Scotland (1316), and Kate Winslet (1975).
1886 - 1924
HPI: 65.56
Rank: 435
923 - 955
HPI: 65.56
Rank: 436
1960 - Present
HPI: 65.55
Rank: 437
1952 - 2011
HPI: 65.53
Rank: 438
1903 - 1995
HPI: 65.52
Rank: 439
1862 - 1890
HPI: 65.51
Rank: 440
1867 - 1925
HPI: 65.50
Rank: 441
1970 - Present
HPI: 65.50
Rank: 442
1800 - 1877
HPI: 65.48
Rank: 443
1926 - Present
HPI: 65.45
Rank: 444
1394 - 1437
HPI: 65.44
Rank: 445
1316 - 1390
HPI: 65.40
Rank: 446
1975 - Present
HPI: 65.38
Rank: 447
Among writers born in United Kingdom, Percy Fawcett ranks 52. Before him are Anthony Burgess (1917), Robert Burns (1759), John le Carré (1931), Beatrix Potter (1866), J. M. Barrie (1860), and A. A. Milne (1882). After him are Philip Larkin (1922), Samuel Butler (1835), Samuel Johnson (1709), John Donne (1572), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772), and John Bunyan (1628).
1917 - 1993
HPI: 66.63
Rank: 46
1759 - 1796
HPI: 66.52
Rank: 47
1931 - 2020
HPI: 66.39
Rank: 48
1866 - 1943
HPI: 66.38
Rank: 49
1860 - 1937
HPI: 66.25
Rank: 50
1882 - 1956
HPI: 65.75
Rank: 51
1867 - 1925
HPI: 65.50
Rank: 52
1922 - 1985
HPI: 65.06
Rank: 53
1835 - 1902
HPI: 65.01
Rank: 54
1709 - 1784
HPI: 64.97
Rank: 55
1572 - 1631
HPI: 64.92
Rank: 56
1772 - 1834
HPI: 64.69
Rank: 57
1628 - 1688
HPI: 64.62
Rank: 58