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Richard E. Byrd

American naval officer and explorer

1888 - 1957

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His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 50 in 2024). Richard E. Byrd is the 69th most popular explorer (down from 42nd in 2024), the 974th most popular biography from United States (down from 498th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular American Explorer.

Richard E. Byrd was an American naval officer and explorer. He was most famous for being the first person to fly over the North Pole.

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Richard E. Byrd ranks #974 among 23,232 people in Pantheon born in United States, inside the top 5% of that group.

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Richard E. Byrd's biography appears in 49 language editions of Wikipedia, more than 90% of all Explorers.

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Among Explorers

Among explorers, Richard E. Byrd ranks 69 out of 500. Before him are Yaqut al-Hamawi, John Ross, Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse, Ferdinand von Wrangel, Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar, and William Dampier. After him are Luís Vaz de Torres, Alonso de Ojeda, Jules Dumont d'Urville, Pêro da Covilhã, Willem Schouten, and John Smith.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Richard E. Byrd ranks 36. Before him are Andrei Tupolev, Gerrit Rietveld, Maurice Chevalier, Anton Makarenko, Alexander Friedmann, and Herbert Spencer Gasser. After him are Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Carin Göring, Georges Bernanos, Ossip Zadkine, Katherine Mansfield, and Josef Albers. Among people deceased in 1957, Richard E. Byrd ranks 28. Before him are Irving Langmuir, Alfred Döblin, Heinrich Hoffmann, José Leandro Andrade, Curzio Malaparte, and Jože Plečnik. After him are Joseph McCarthy, Alfonso de Portago, Maurice Garin, František Kupka, Laura Ingalls Wilder, and Erich Wolfgang Korngold.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Richard E. Byrd ranks 974 out of 23,232. Before him are Anthony Perkins (1932), Art Garfunkel (1941), Louise Hay (1926), Zoe Saldaña (1978), Julius Axelrod (1912), and Roy Scheider (1932). After him are Robert Evans (1930), Jimmie Rodgers (1897), Lee Marvin (1924), Kevin Bacon (1958), Vanessa Williams (1963), and Louise Fletcher (1934).

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Among Explorers In United States

Among explorers born in United States, Richard E. Byrd ranks 3. Before him are Daniel Boone (1734), and William Clark (1770). After him are Davy Crockett (1786), Sacagawea (1780), Calamity Jane (1852), Hugh Glass (1783), Michael Rockefeller (1938), Chris McCandless (1968), Frederick Cook (1865), George W. De Long (1844), and Simon Fraser (1776).

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