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Pocahontas

1595 - 1617

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Pocahontas (US: , UK: ; born Amonute, also known as Matoaka and Rebecca Rolfe; c. 1596 – March 1617) was a Native American woman belonging to the Powhatan people, notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia. She was the daughter of Powhatan, the paramount chief of a network of tributary tribes in the Tsenacommacah, encompassing the Tidewater region of what is today the U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pocahontas has received more than 17,214,423 page views. Her biography is available in 59 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Pocahontas is the most popular diplomat, the 33rd most popular biography from United States (down from 32nd in 2019) and the most popular American Diplomat.

Pocahontas is most famous for being the daughter of Powhatan, the Chief of the Powhatan Confederacy. She is also famous for saving the life of John Smith, a Jamestown settler, by warning him of an impending attack by her father.

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  • 17M

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  • 81.85

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 59

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 14.74

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.18

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among DIPLOMATS

Among diplomats, Pocahontas ranks 1 out of 90. After her are Kofi Annan, John Jay, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, Gaius Marius, Dag Hammarskjöld, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Alexandra Kollontai, Ban Ki-moon, Ferdinand de Lesseps, Raoul Wallenberg, and Lucien Bonaparte.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1595, Pocahontas ranks 1. After her are Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Władysław IV Vasa, Injo of Joseon, Alessandro Algardi, George William, Elector of Brandenburg, Vasile Lupu, Dirck van Baburen, Jean Chapelain, Antonio Maria Abbatini, Ludovico Ludovisi, and Albert Girard. Among people deceased in 1617, Pocahontas ranks 2. Before her is Ahmed I. After her are John Napier, Rose of Lima, Francisco Suárez, Emperor Go-Yōzei, Concino Concini, David Fabricius, Hendrik Goltzius, 4th Dalai Lama, Fausto Veranzio, and Dorothea of Denmark, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Pocahontas ranks 33 out of 20,380. Before her are Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882), John F. Kennedy (1917), Neil Armstrong (1930), Benjamin Franklin (1706), Eleanor Roosevelt (1884), and Ronald Reagan (1911). After her are George Washington (1732), Ernest Hemingway (1899), Walt Disney (1901), Lee Harvey Oswald (1939), H. P. Lovecraft (1890), and Aretha Franklin (1942).

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Among DIPLOMATS In United States

Among diplomats born in United States, Pocahontas ranks 1. After her are John Jay (1745), John R. Bolton (1948), Antony Blinken (1962), George F. Kennan (1904), Ralph Bunche (1904), Dean Acheson (1893), Jean Kennedy Smith (1928), William J. Burns (1956), Richard Holbrooke (1941), Victoria Nuland (1961), and Adlai Stevenson II (1900).

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