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Samuel Baker

1821 - 1893

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Sir Samuel White Baker (8 June 1821 – 30 December 1893) was an English explorer, officer, naturalist, big game hunter, engineer, writer and abolitionist. He also held the titles of Pasha and Major-General in the Ottoman Empire and Egypt. He served as the Governor-General of the Equatorial Nile Basin (today's South Sudan and Northern Uganda) between April 1869 and August 1873, which he established as the Province of Equatoria. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Samuel Baker has received more than 247,866 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Samuel Baker is the 357th most popular explorer (down from 237th in 2019), the 3,045th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,998th in 2019) and the 40th most popular British Explorer.

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  • 49.59

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.69

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Samuel Baker ranks 357 out of 498. Before him are Pascual de Andagoya, Juan Fernández, Florence Baker, Irina Solovyova, Miguel Corte-Real, and John Wesley Powell. After him are Álvaro de Saavedra Cerón, Georgy Sedov, Stepan Krasheninnikov, George Bass, György Almásy, and Khariton Laptev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1821, Samuel Baker ranks 76. Before him are Jane Wilde, Leopold III, Prince of Lippe, Michel Carré, Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae, Apollon Maykov, and Nils Johan Andersson. After him are Janko Matúška, Marcus Goldman, Alexander Gardner, John Abbott, Joseph Noel Paton, and Charles of Mount Argus. Among people deceased in 1893, Samuel Baker ranks 64. Before him are Grigory Gagarin, Grigor Parlichev, Aloys Sprenger, Michał Elwiro Andriolli, Alexander Kazbegi, and Duleep Singh. After him are Lucy Stone, Arnaud-Michel d'Abbadie, Carl Christoffer Georg Andræ, John William Casilear, John Abbott, and Karl Bodmer.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Samuel Baker ranks 3,045 out of 8,785. Before him are Ruth Belville (1854), Edward Hardwicke (1932), Genesis P-Orridge (1950), Anthony Hope (1863), Richard Pococke (1704), and Andrew Loog Oldham (1944). After him are Thomas Digges (1546), Ted Drake (1912), Dorothy Garrod (1892), Frank Watson Dyson (1868), Jimmie Nicol (1939), and Felicity Jones (1983).

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Among EXPLORERS In United Kingdom

Among explorers born in United Kingdom, Samuel Baker ranks 40. Before him are Edward Wilson (1872), Alexander Gordon Laing (1794), Alexander Dalrymple (1737), Francis Crozier (1796), John Biscoe (1794), and John Byron (1723). After him are George Bass (1771), Clements Markham (1830), John Marshall (1748), Vivian Fuchs (1908), Frederick William Beechey (1796), and John McDouall Stuart (1815).

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