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Percy Fawcett

1867 - 1925

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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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  • 5.3M

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  • 65.50

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  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.20

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.71

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Percy Fawcett ranks 560 out of 5,755Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1867, Percy Fawcett ranks 16Before 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 17Before 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.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Percy Fawcett ranks 441 out of 7,765Before 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).

Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Percy Fawcett ranks 52Before 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).