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Rodrigo de Triana

1469 - 1526

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Rodrigo de Triana (born 1469 in Lepe, Huelva, Spain) was a Spanish sailor, believed to be the first European from the Age of Exploration to have seen the Americas. Born as Juan Rodríguez Bermejo, Triana was the son of hidalgo and potter Vicente Bermejo and Sereni Betancour. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rodrigo de Triana has received more than 147,260 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Rodrigo de Triana is the 153rd most popular explorer (down from 132nd in 2019), the 592nd most popular biography from Spain (down from 504th in 2019) and the 30th most popular Spanish Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Rodrigo de Triana ranks 153 out of 498Before him are Mark Sykes, Don Walsh, Martin Frobisher, Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg, Pêro da Covilhã, and Pedro Mascarenhas. After him are Filipa Moniz Perestrelo, Gan Ying, Gaspar de Lemos, Alexandrine Tinné, Ahmad ibn Rustah, and Isabelle Eberhardt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1469, Rodrigo de Triana ranks 7Before him are Niccolò Machiavelli, Manuel I of Portugal, Guru Nanak, Gian Galeazzo Sforza, Thomas Cajetan, and John Fisher. After him are Ishak Pasha, Elia Levita, Francesco Granacci, and Laura Cereta. Among people deceased in 1526, Rodrigo de Triana ranks 9Before him are Vittore Carpaccio, Isabella of Austria, Giovanni dalle Bande Nere, Scipione del Ferro, Emperor Go-Kashiwabara, and Ibrahim Lodi. After him are Peter Martyr d'Anghiera, Elisabetta Gonzaga, Shō Shin, Francisco Hernández de Córdoba, Conrad Grebel, and Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Rodrigo de Triana ranks 592 out of 3,355Before him are Inés Suárez (1507), Liuva II (583), Ramón del Valle-Inclán (1866), Alonso Sánchez Coello (1531), Francesc Pi i Margall (1824), and Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851). After him are Manuel Santana (1938), Abd al-Rahman IV (1000), Muhammad II of Córdoba (980), Juande Ramos (1954), Sancha of Castile, Queen of Aragon (1154), and Elisenda of Montcada (1292).

Among EXPLORERS In Spain

Among explorers born in Spain, Rodrigo de Triana ranks 30Before him are Pedro de Mendoza (1487), Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (1500), Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada (1509), Juan de Grijalva (1480), Andrés de Urdaneta (1498), and Sebastián de Belalcázar (1480). After him are Ruy López de Villalobos (1500), Paulo da Gama (1465), Gerónimo de Aguilar (1489), Francisco de Bobadilla (1500), Pedro Arias Dávila (1443), and Francisco de Montejo (1479).