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Robert Surcouf

1773 - 1827

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Robert Surcouf ([ʁɔ.bɛʁ syʁ.kuf] 12 December 1773 – 8 July 1827) was a French privateer, businessman and slave trader who operated in the Indian Ocean from 1789 to 1808 during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Capturing over 40 prizes, he later amassed a large fortune from a variety of commercial activities, such as ship-owning, privateering, slave trading and owning land. Surcouf started his maritime career as an officer on the ships Aurore, Courrier d'Afrique and Navigateur. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Surcouf has received more than 570,916 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Surcouf is the 6,703rd most popular politician (up from 7,210th in 2019), the 1,997th most popular biography from France (up from 2,195th in 2019) and the 494th most popular French Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Robert Surcouf ranks 6,703 out of 15,577. Before him are Titus Flavius Clemens, Eustace IV, Count of Boulogne, Marc Ravalomanana, Emperor An of Jin, Lucius Licinius Crassus, and Lusius Quietus. After him are Veleda, Nabih Berri, Andrej Kiska, Nikolay Pavlovich Ignatyev, Tiglath-Pileser II, and Margravine Hedwig Sophie of Brandenburg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1773, Robert Surcouf ranks 18. Before him are Thérésa Tallien, Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi, Armand-Augustin-Louis de Caulaincourt, Luisa of Naples and Sicily, Henri Gatien Bertrand, and George Cayley. After him are Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder, Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, Tokugawa Ienari, Prince Louis Charles of Prussia, Étienne Maurice Gérard, and William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst. Among people deceased in 1827, Robert Surcouf ranks 16. Before him are Maria Theresa of Austria, Ugo Foscolo, Ernst Chladni, Armand-Augustin-Louis de Caulaincourt, Wilhelm Müller, and George Canning. After him are Michel-Gabriel Paccard, Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, Thomas Rowlandson, Georgios Karaiskakis, Charlotte von Stein, and Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Meiningen.

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In France

Among people born in France, Robert Surcouf ranks 1,997 out of 6,011. Before him are Louis, Duke of Vendôme (1612), John III, Duke of Brittany (1286), Pierre Paul Émile Roux (1853), Prince Sixtus Henry of Bourbon-Parma (1940), Guillaume Dupuytren (1777), and Henri Michel (1947). After him are Guillaume Bigourdan (1851), Sophie Blanchard (1778), Recceswinth (620), Gaspard Ulliel (1984), Patrick Tambay (1949), and Martine Carol (1920).

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Among POLITICIANS In France

Among politicians born in France, Robert Surcouf ranks 494. Before him are Jacques Cathelineau (1759), Beatrice of Burgundy, Lady of Bourbon (1257), Nicholas Romanov, Prince of Russia (1922), Henri Grégoire (1750), Peter II of Courtenay (1155), and Blanche of France, Duchess of Orléans (1328). After him are Recceswinth (620), Jean-Marc Ayrault (1950), Blanche of Artois (1248), Pauline Félicité de Mailly-Nesle (1712), Odo III, Duke of Burgundy (1166), and Jacques Thibaud (1880).

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