1868 - 1912
Captain Robert Falcon Scott, , (6 June 1868 – c. 29 March 1912) was a Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery expedition of 1901–1904 and the ill-fated Terra Nova expedition of 1910–1913. On the first expedition, he set a new southern record by marching to latitude 82°S and discovered the Antarctic Plateau, on which the South Pole is located. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Falcon Scott has received more than 2,715,833 page views. His biography is available in 64 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 62 in 2019). Robert Falcon Scott is the 46th most popular explorer (down from 44th in 2019), the 388th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 373rd in 2019) and the 5th most popular British Explorer.
Robert Falcon Scott was a British Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic, both of which ended in tragedy. On his first expedition, Scott led a party of five which reached the South Pole on 17 January 1912, only to find that they had been preceded by Roald Amundsen's Norwegian expedition. On the second expedition, Scott led a party of four which reached the pole on 17 January 1912, only to find that Amundsen had preceded them again. On their return journey, Scott and his companions all died from a combination of exhaustion, starvation and extreme cold.
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Among explorers, Robert Falcon Scott ranks 46 out of 405. Before him are Martin Behaim, Antonio Pigafetta, Giovanni da Verrazzano, Jacob Roggeveen, Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, and Zhang Qian. After him are Henry Hudson, Sven Hedin, Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse, Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Diego de Almagro, and William Adams.
1459 - 1507
HPI: 75.13
Rank: 40
1492 - 1531
HPI: 75.06
Rank: 41
1485 - 1528
HPI: 74.90
Rank: 42
1659 - 1729
HPI: 74.82
Rank: 43
1778 - 1852
HPI: 74.65
Rank: 44
200 BC - 114 BC
HPI: 74.38
Rank: 45
1868 - 1912
HPI: 74.24
Rank: 46
1570 - 1611
HPI: 74.16
Rank: 47
1865 - 1952
HPI: 74.15
Rank: 48
1741 - 1788
HPI: 73.95
Rank: 49
1832 - 1901
HPI: 73.90
Rank: 50
1475 - 1538
HPI: 73.63
Rank: 51
1564 - 1620
HPI: 73.47
Rank: 52
Among people born in 1868, Robert Falcon Scott ranks 16. Before him are Gichin Funakoshi, Gertrude Bell, Arnold Sommerfeld, Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria, Emanuel Lasker, and Peter Behrens. After him are Florence Foster Jenkins, Paul Claudel, Fuad I of Egypt, Scott Joplin, Gaston Leroux, and Gustav Meyrink. Among people deceased in 1912, Robert Falcon Scott ranks 13. Before him are Karl May, Frederick VIII of Denmark, Thomas Andrews, Frédéric Passy, Joseph Lister, and Gerhard Armauer Hansen. After him are Lawrence Alma-Tadema, William McMaster Murdoch, William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Johann Martin Schleyer, Benjamin Guggenheim, and John Jacob Astor IV.
1868 - 1957
HPI: 76.61
Rank: 10
1868 - 1926
HPI: 76.21
Rank: 11
1868 - 1951
HPI: 76.08
Rank: 12
1868 - 1924
HPI: 75.96
Rank: 13
1868 - 1941
HPI: 75.91
Rank: 14
1868 - 1940
HPI: 75.87
Rank: 15
1868 - 1912
HPI: 74.24
Rank: 16
1868 - 1944
HPI: 74.14
Rank: 17
1868 - 1955
HPI: 74.07
Rank: 18
1868 - 1936
HPI: 73.97
Rank: 19
1868 - 1917
HPI: 73.94
Rank: 20
1868 - 1927
HPI: 73.79
Rank: 21
1868 - 1932
HPI: 73.61
Rank: 22
1842 - 1912
HPI: 77.38
Rank: 7
1843 - 1912
HPI: 77.26
Rank: 8
1873 - 1912
HPI: 75.79
Rank: 9
1822 - 1912
HPI: 75.46
Rank: 10
1827 - 1912
HPI: 75.34
Rank: 11
1841 - 1912
HPI: 74.52
Rank: 12
1868 - 1912
HPI: 74.24
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1836 - 1912
HPI: 73.98
Rank: 14
1873 - 1912
HPI: 73.52
Rank: 15
1852 - 1912
HPI: 72.30
Rank: 16
1831 - 1912
HPI: 72.23
Rank: 17
1865 - 1912
HPI: 72.18
Rank: 18
1864 - 1912
HPI: 72.00
Rank: 19
Among people born in United Kingdom, Robert Falcon Scott ranks 388 out of 6,924. Before him are John Everett Millais (1829), Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales (1453), Bartholomew Roberts (1682), Richard Owen (1804), Thomas Young (1773), and Arthur Harden (1865). After him are Æthelred the Unready (968), Bobby Charlton (1937), Richard Wright (1943), William Laud (1573), Philip Larkin (1922), and Henry Hudson (1570).
1829 - 1896
HPI: 74.31
Rank: 382
1453 - 1471
HPI: 74.31
Rank: 383
1682 - 1722
HPI: 74.31
Rank: 384
1804 - 1892
HPI: 74.29
Rank: 385
1773 - 1829
HPI: 74.29
Rank: 386
1865 - 1940
HPI: 74.25
Rank: 387
1868 - 1912
HPI: 74.24
Rank: 388
968 - 1016
HPI: 74.24
Rank: 389
1937 - Present
HPI: 74.22
Rank: 390
1943 - 2008
HPI: 74.21
Rank: 391
1573 - 1645
HPI: 74.21
Rank: 392
1922 - 1985
HPI: 74.19
Rank: 393
1570 - 1611
HPI: 74.16
Rank: 394
Among explorers born in United Kingdom, Robert Falcon Scott ranks 5. Before him are James Cook (1728), Francis Drake (1540), David Livingstone (1813), and Henry Morton Stanley (1841). After him are Henry Hudson (1570), William Adams (1564), John Smith (1580), William Baffin (1584), Richard Francis Burton (1821), James Clark Ross (1800), and William Dampier (1651).
1728 - 1779
HPI: 86.48
Rank: 1
1540 - 1596
HPI: 84.23
Rank: 2
1813 - 1873
HPI: 81.25
Rank: 3
1841 - 1904
HPI: 76.82
Rank: 4
1868 - 1912
HPI: 74.24
Rank: 5
1570 - 1611
HPI: 74.16
Rank: 6
1564 - 1620
HPI: 73.47
Rank: 7
1580 - 1631
HPI: 73.30
Rank: 8
1584 - 1622
HPI: 73.16
Rank: 9
1821 - 1890
HPI: 72.50
Rank: 10
1800 - 1862
HPI: 72.49
Rank: 11
1651 - 1715
HPI: 71.79
Rank: 12