1868 - 1912
Captain Robert Falcon Scott, , (6 June 1868 – c. 29 March 1912) was a British 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 3,038,940 page views. His biography is available in 65 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 64 in 2019). Robert Falcon Scott is the 37th most popular explorer (up from 46th in 2019), the 317th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 388th 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 37 out of 405. Before him are Pytheas, Francisco de Orellana, Evliya Çelebi, Giovanni da Pian del Carpine, Juan Ponce de León, and Jan van Riebeeck. After him are Martin Behaim, Ernest Shackleton, Hanno the Navigator, Zhang Qian, Ingólfr Arnarson, and Sven Hedin.
380 BC - 310 BC
HPI: 69.15
Rank: 31
1511 - 1546
HPI: 69.04
Rank: 32
1611 - 1682
HPI: 68.75
Rank: 33
1182 - 1252
HPI: 68.69
Rank: 34
1460 - 1521
HPI: 68.32
Rank: 35
1619 - 1677
HPI: 67.81
Rank: 36
1868 - 1912
HPI: 67.79
Rank: 37
1459 - 1507
HPI: 67.74
Rank: 38
1874 - 1922
HPI: 66.68
Rank: 39
633 BC - 530 BC
HPI: 66.55
Rank: 40
200 BC - 114 BC
HPI: 66.36
Rank: 41
850 - 910
HPI: 66.35
Rank: 42
1865 - 1952
HPI: 66.21
Rank: 43
Among people born in 1868, Robert Falcon Scott ranks 15. Before him are Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, Gichin Funakoshi, Emanuel Lasker, Arnold Sommerfeld, and Peter Behrens. After him are Gertrude Bell, Fuad I of Egypt, Gaston Leroux, Florence Foster Jenkins, Paul Claudel, and Theodore William Richards. Among people deceased in 1912, Robert Falcon Scott ranks 11. Before him are Edward Smith, Bram Stoker, Frédéric Passy, Frederick VIII of Denmark, Karl May, and Thomas Andrews. After him are Joseph Lister, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, William McMaster Murdoch, William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Gerhard Armauer Hansen, and Auguste Beernaert.
1868 - 1924
HPI: 69.77
Rank: 9
1868 - 1914
HPI: 69.74
Rank: 10
1868 - 1957
HPI: 69.40
Rank: 11
1868 - 1941
HPI: 68.76
Rank: 12
1868 - 1951
HPI: 68.67
Rank: 13
1868 - 1940
HPI: 67.83
Rank: 14
1868 - 1912
HPI: 67.79
Rank: 15
1868 - 1926
HPI: 67.52
Rank: 16
1868 - 1936
HPI: 66.89
Rank: 17
1868 - 1927
HPI: 66.59
Rank: 18
1868 - 1944
HPI: 66.40
Rank: 19
1868 - 1955
HPI: 65.95
Rank: 20
1868 - 1928
HPI: 65.79
Rank: 21
1850 - 1912
HPI: 71.44
Rank: 5
1847 - 1912
HPI: 71.15
Rank: 6
1822 - 1912
HPI: 70.52
Rank: 7
1843 - 1912
HPI: 69.60
Rank: 8
1842 - 1912
HPI: 69.38
Rank: 9
1873 - 1912
HPI: 67.83
Rank: 10
1868 - 1912
HPI: 67.79
Rank: 11
1827 - 1912
HPI: 66.05
Rank: 12
1836 - 1912
HPI: 65.46
Rank: 13
1873 - 1912
HPI: 64.37
Rank: 14
1852 - 1912
HPI: 64.29
Rank: 15
1841 - 1912
HPI: 63.45
Rank: 16
1829 - 1912
HPI: 63.34
Rank: 17
Among people born in United Kingdom, Robert Falcon Scott ranks 317 out of 7,765. Before him are David II of Scotland (1324), William Petty (1623), Edward Gibbon (1737), Benny Hill (1924), Stanley Matthews (1915), and Thomas Andrews (1873). After him are John Herschel (1792), Anne Neville (1456), Frederick Soddy (1877), Syd Barrett (1946), Jacqueline Bisset (1944), and Jon Lord (1941).
1324 - 1371
HPI: 67.85
Rank: 311
1623 - 1687
HPI: 67.84
Rank: 312
1737 - 1794
HPI: 67.84
Rank: 313
1924 - 1992
HPI: 67.84
Rank: 314
1915 - 2000
HPI: 67.83
Rank: 315
1873 - 1912
HPI: 67.83
Rank: 316
1868 - 1912
HPI: 67.79
Rank: 317
1792 - 1871
HPI: 67.79
Rank: 318
1456 - 1485
HPI: 67.76
Rank: 319
1877 - 1956
HPI: 67.72
Rank: 320
1946 - 2006
HPI: 67.72
Rank: 321
1944 - Present
HPI: 67.69
Rank: 322
1941 - 2012
HPI: 67.69
Rank: 323
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 William Baffin (1584), Richard Francis Burton (1821), William Adams (1564), Henry Hudson (1570), John Smith (1580), James Clark Ross (1800), and John Davis (1550).
1728 - 1779
HPI: 82.31
Rank: 1
1540 - 1596
HPI: 79.36
Rank: 2
1813 - 1873
HPI: 76.77
Rank: 3
1841 - 1904
HPI: 70.20
Rank: 4
1868 - 1912
HPI: 67.79
Rank: 5
1584 - 1622
HPI: 66.02
Rank: 6
1821 - 1890
HPI: 65.05
Rank: 7
1564 - 1620
HPI: 64.94
Rank: 8
1570 - 1611
HPI: 64.35
Rank: 9
1580 - 1631
HPI: 63.88
Rank: 10
1800 - 1862
HPI: 63.77
Rank: 11
1550 - 1605
HPI: 63.18
Rank: 12