1540 - Today
Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser (occasionally Petrus Theodorus; c. 1540 – 11 September 1596) was a Dutch navigator and celestial cartographer who mapped several constellations on the southern celestial hemisphere. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser has received more than 59,930 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser is the 251st most popular explorer (up from 259th in 2019), the 2,899th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,796th in 2019) and the 13th most popular German Explorer.
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Among explorers, Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser ranks 251 out of 405. Before him are St John Philby, Ingvar the Far-Travelled, Yerofey Khabarov, William Parry, Anthony Jenkinson, and Nicolas Baudin. After him are Pehr Osbeck, Carl Peters, Freya Stark, Karl Weyprecht, Estêvão Gomes, and Paweł Strzelecki.
1885 - 1960
HPI: 52.58
Rank: 245
1050 - 1041
HPI: 52.57
Rank: 246
1603 - 1671
HPI: 52.56
Rank: 247
1790 - 1855
HPI: 52.40
Rank: 248
1529 - 1610
HPI: 52.32
Rank: 249
1754 - 1803
HPI: 52.25
Rank: 250
1540 - Present
HPI: 52.18
Rank: 251
1723 - 1805
HPI: 52.16
Rank: 252
1856 - 1918
HPI: 52.07
Rank: 253
1893 - 1993
HPI: 52.02
Rank: 254
1838 - 1881
HPI: 52.00
Rank: 255
1484 - 1538
HPI: 51.99
Rank: 256
1797 - 1873
HPI: 51.88
Rank: 257
Among people born in 1540, Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser ranks 21. Before him are Princess Cecilia of Sweden, Denis Calvaert, Ostilio Ricci, Simone Peterzano, Giovanni Artusi, and Lady Katherine Grey. After him are Philips of Marnix, Lord of Saint-Aldegonde, Alessandro Striggio, and Edmund Campion.
1540 - 1627
HPI: 55.21
Rank: 15
1540 - 1619
HPI: 54.40
Rank: 16
1540 - 1603
HPI: 54.05
Rank: 17
1540 - 1599
HPI: 53.84
Rank: 18
1540 - 1613
HPI: 52.77
Rank: 19
1540 - 1568
HPI: 52.55
Rank: 20
1540 - Present
HPI: 52.18
Rank: 21
1540 - 1598
HPI: 51.02
Rank: 22
1540 - 1592
HPI: 50.20
Rank: 23
1540 - 1581
HPI: 49.53
Rank: 24
Among people born in Germany, Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser ranks 2,899 out of 6,142. Before him are Otto Warburg (1859), Johannes Schmidt (1843), Wilhelm Roux (1850), Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel (1766), Johann Rosenmüller (1619), and Lina Radke (1903). After him are Frederick William, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt (1700), Werner Egk (1901), Sonja Ziemann (1926), Wilhelm von Biela (1782), Johann Ernst Glück (1652), and Anne Buydens (1919).
1859 - 1938
HPI: 52.19
Rank: 2,893
1843 - 1901
HPI: 52.19
Rank: 2,894
1850 - 1924
HPI: 52.19
Rank: 2,895
1766 - 1833
HPI: 52.19
Rank: 2,896
1619 - 1684
HPI: 52.18
Rank: 2,897
1903 - 1983
HPI: 52.18
Rank: 2,898
1540 - Present
HPI: 52.18
Rank: 2,899
1700 - 1771
HPI: 52.18
Rank: 2,900
1901 - 1983
HPI: 52.17
Rank: 2,901
1926 - 2020
HPI: 52.16
Rank: 2,902
1782 - 1856
HPI: 52.16
Rank: 2,903
1652 - 1705
HPI: 52.16
Rank: 2,904
1919 - 2021
HPI: 52.15
Rank: 2,905
Among explorers born in Germany, Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser ranks 13. Before him are John Sutter (1803), Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg (1873), Gustav Nachtigal (1834), Julius Klaproth (1783), Wilhelm Filchner (1877), and Nikolaus Federmann (1505). After him are Carl Peters (1856), Karl Weyprecht (1838), Ludwig Leichhardt (1813), Adolf Lüderitz (1834), Albert von Le Coq (1860), and Otto Finsch (1839).
1803 - 1880
HPI: 56.57
Rank: 7
1873 - 1969
HPI: 55.57
Rank: 8
1834 - 1885
HPI: 55.51
Rank: 9
1783 - 1835
HPI: 54.19
Rank: 10
1877 - 1957
HPI: 54.12
Rank: 11
1505 - 1542
HPI: 53.52
Rank: 12
1540 - Present
HPI: 52.18
Rank: 13
1856 - 1918
HPI: 52.07
Rank: 14
1838 - 1881
HPI: 52.00
Rank: 15
1813 - 1848
HPI: 51.79
Rank: 16
1834 - 1886
HPI: 51.12
Rank: 17
1860 - 1930
HPI: 50.39
Rank: 18
1839 - 1917
HPI: 49.98
Rank: 19