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Ranulph Fiennes

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Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 3rd Baronet (born 7 March 1944), commonly known as Sir Ranulph Fiennes () and sometimes as Ran Fiennes, is a British explorer, writer and poet, who holds several endurance records. Fiennes served in the British Army for eight years, including a period on counter-insurgency service while attached to the Army of the Sultanate of Oman. He later undertook numerous expeditions and was the first person to visit both the North Pole and South Pole by surface means and the first to completely cross Antarctica on foot. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ranulph Fiennes has received more than 3,437,658 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Ranulph Fiennes is the 391st most popular explorer (down from 370th in 2019), the 3,677th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,711th in 2019) and the 55th most popular British Explorer.

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  • 21

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  • 1.66

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  • 3.92

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Ranulph Fiennes ranks 391 out of 405Before him are Anthony de la Roché, Tobias Furneaux, Boris Vilkitsky, Robert McClure, Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen, and Jacques Bernard Hombron. After him are Theodor von Heuglin, Hugh Clapperton, Henry Robertson Bowers, Johannes Rebmann, Vivian Fuchs, and François Levaillant.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Ranulph Fiennes ranks 448Before him are Helmut Dietl, Sergio Markarián, Isao Okano, Eddie Gómez, Leonard Slatkin, and Hui Liangyu. After him are Kenneth Cranham, Jean-Louis Debré, Mick Avory, Antti Tuuri, Rita Mae Brown, and Oscar Temaru.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Ranulph Fiennes ranks 3,677 out of 7,765Before him are D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860), Simone Perrotta (1977), Paul Kossoff (1950), Doug Bradley (1954), Reginald Wingate (1861), and Imogen Heap (1977). After him are Dudley Pound (1877), Kunal Nayyar (1981), Acker Bilk (1929), Jonny Greenwood (1971), Gerald Finzi (1901), and George Crabbe (1754).

Among EXPLORERS In United Kingdom

Among explorers born in United Kingdom, Ranulph Fiennes ranks 55Before him are Luke Foxe (1586), Alfred Maudslay (1850), John Marshall (1748), George Nares (1831), Anthony de la Roché (1700), and Tobias Furneaux (1735). After him are Hugh Clapperton (1788), Henry Robertson Bowers (1883), Vivian Fuchs (1908), Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet (1764), John Moresby (1830), and Herbert Ponting (1870).