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Sacagawea

1780 - 1812

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Sacagawea ( SAK-ə-jə-WEE-ə or sə-KOG-ə-WAY-ə; also spelled Sakakawea or Sacajawea; May c. 1788 – December 20, 1812) was a Lemhi Shoshone woman who, in her teens, helped the Lewis and Clark Expedition in achieving their chartered mission objectives by exploring the Louisiana Territory. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sacagawea has received more than 6,080,724 page views. Her biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Sacagawea is the 112th most popular explorer (down from 104th in 2019), the 1,389th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,311th in 2019) and the 6th most popular American Explorer.

Sacagawea is most famous for being the only woman on the Lewis and Clark expedition.

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  • 6.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.53

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 45

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.02

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.01

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Sacagawea ranks 112 out of 498. Before her are Thomas Cavendish, João Gonçalves Zarco, Adam Johann von Krusenstern, Semyon Dezhnev, Bernal Díaz del Castillo, and Fernão Mendes Pinto. After her are George Vancouver, Cosmas Indicopleustes, Pánfilo de Narváez, Heinrich Barth, Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, and Pedro Fernandes de Queirós.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1780, Sacagawea ranks 11. Before her are Miloš Obrenović, Jules de Polignac, Charles Nodier, Pierre-Jean de Béranger, Ranjit Singh, and Jernej Kopitar. After her are Mary Somerville, Karl Nesselrode, Bernardino Rivadavia, Georgios Karaiskakis, Tudor Vladimirescu, and August Leopold Crelle. Among people deceased in 1812, Sacagawea ranks 4. Before her are Mayer Amschel Rothschild, Pyotr Bagration, and Emanuel Schikaneder. After her are George Clinton, Étienne-Louis Malus, Shneur Zalman of Liadi, Jan Ladislav Dussek, Carl Ludwig Willdenow, Spencer Perceval, Isaac Titsingh, and Hieronymus von Colloredo.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Sacagawea ranks 1,389 out of 20,380. Before her are George Strait (1952), John Jacob Astor IV (1864), John Zorn (1953), Annette Bening (1958), Henry Gantt (1861), and David Duchovny (1960). After her are Nelson Goodman (1906), Charles Chaplin Jr. (1925), Dwight Schultz (1947), John Brown (1800), James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834), and Dirk Benedict (1945).

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Among EXPLORERS In United States

Among explorers born in United States, Sacagawea ranks 6. Before her are Richard E. Byrd (1888), Davy Crockett (1786), Hugh Glass (1783), Calamity Jane (1852), and Michael Rockefeller (1938). After her are Frederick Cook (1865), Don Walsh (1931), Simon Fraser (1776), Jimmie Angel (1899), Lincoln Ellsworth (1880), and George W. De Long (1844).

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