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Rob Roy MacGregor

1671 - 1734

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Robert Roy MacGregor (Scottish Gaelic: Raibeart Ruadh MacGriogair; 7 March 1671 – 28 December 1734) was a Jacobite Scottish outlaw, who later became a Scottish and catholic folk hero. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rob Roy MacGregor has received more than 2,120,475 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Rob Roy MacGregor is the 6,026th most popular politician (down from 3,627th in 2019), the 1,193rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 802nd in 2019) and the 202nd most popular British Politician.

Rob Roy MacGregor is most famous for his exploits as a cattle thief and smuggler, and for his role in the Jacobite uprisings of 1715 and 1745.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Rob Roy MacGregor ranks 6,026 out of 19,576. Before him are Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko, Rafi Eitan, Suryavarman I, Noe Zhordania, Thamphthis, and Kiichi Miyazawa. After him are Walid Jumblatt, Louis, Prince of Condé, Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo, Ron Huldai, Lauri Kristian Relander, and Jean-Antoine Marbot.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1671, Rob Roy MacGregor ranks 10. Before him are Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Nizam-ul-Mulk, Asaf Jah I, Christiane Eberhardine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Frederick IV, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, Princess Christine Louise of Oettingen-Oettingen, and Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury. After him are Louis Rudolph, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Johann Christoph Bach, Luigi Guido Grandi, Antoine Forqueray, Duchess Charlotte Felicitas of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and Joseph Clemens of Bavaria. Among people deceased in 1734, Rob Roy MacGregor ranks 8. Before him are Georg Ernst Stahl, Giovanni Ceva, Richard Cantillon, James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, Abigail Masham, Baroness Masham, and Sebastiano Ricci. After him are Louise de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth, Johann Conrad Dippel, Domenico Trezzini, Danylo Apostol, Philippine Élisabeth d'Orléans, and Gavriil Golovkin.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Rob Roy MacGregor ranks 1,193 out of 8,785. Before him are Thomas Browne (1605), Michael Moorcock (1939), Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York (1341), Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1623), Edith Cavell (1865), and John Kay (1704). After him are James Lind (1716), George Young (1946), George Fox (1624), Annie Chapman (1841), Dave Murray (1956), and Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Rob Roy MacGregor ranks 202. Before him are Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset (1506), Prince Edward, Duke of Kent (1935), William the Lion (1142), Ed Miliband (1969), Louis Lucien Bonaparte (1813), and Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York (1341). After him are Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March (1287), Spencer Perceval (1762), Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803), Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany (1763), Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge (1375), and James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie (1812).

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