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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 230,201 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Samuel Baker is the 238th most popular explorer (up from 340th in 2019), the 2,003rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,106th in 2019) and the 29th most popular British Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Samuel Baker ranks 238 out of 405Before him are Edward Bransfield, Carl Anton Larsen, John Byron, Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux, Chris McCandless, and Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac. After him are Ma Huan, Francis Garnier, Jorge Álvares, Annie Londonderry, Vladimir Atlasov, and Thorvald Eiriksson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1821, Samuel Baker ranks 48Before him are Albert, 4th duc de Broglie, Clara Barton, Champfleury, Cyprian Norwid, Princess Adelheid of Schaumburg-Lippe, and Ferdinand Gregorovius. After him are Karol Mikuli, Félix Ziem, Antonio Ciseri, John C. Breckinridge, Karel Havlíček Borovský, and Ion C. Brătianu. Among people deceased in 1893, Samuel Baker ranks 36Before him are Jacob Moleschott, Robert Cornelius, Rudolf Wolf, Julius Popper, Matsudaira Katamori, and Adolf I, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe. After him are Nikolai Zverev, Alphonse Beau de Rochas, Anna Bilińska, Grigor Parlichev, Princess Marguerite of Orléans, and William Smith.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Samuel Baker ranks 2,003 out of 7,765Before him are William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst (1773), Herbert Read (1893), Graham Bonnet (1947), Jeanette (1951), George Frederic Watts (1817), and Mary Hopkin (1950). After him are Nicollette Sheridan (1963), Chiwetel Ejiofor (1977), Joseph Delaney (1945), Robert Hichens (1882), Albert F. Mummery (1855), and Claude Auchinleck (1884).

Among EXPLORERS In United Kingdom

Among explorers born in United Kingdom, Samuel Baker ranks 29Before him are James Bruce (1730), John Rolfe (1585), Mark Sykes (1879), Lady Hester Stanhope (1776), Douglas Mawson (1882), and John Byron (1723). After him are William Parry (1790), Anthony Jenkinson (1529), Richard Chancellor (1521), Francis Crozier (1796), Alexander Dalrymple (1737), and Alexander Gordon Laing (1794).