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Samuel Wallis

1728 - 1795

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Samuel Wallis (23 April 1728 – 21 January 1795 in London) was a British naval officer and explorer of the Pacific Ocean who made the first recorded visit by a European navigator to Tahiti. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Samuel Wallis has received more than 116,628 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Samuel Wallis is the 199th most popular explorer (down from 154th in 2019), the 1,646th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,364th in 2019) and the 26th most popular British Explorer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 120k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.49

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.62

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.70

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Samuel Wallis ranks 199 out of 498. Before him are Alexander Andreyevich Baranov, Olivier van Noort, Matthew Flinders, Jean-Baptiste Charcot, Wilhelm Filchner, and James Weddell. After him are André Thevet, Vasily Tatishchev, Estêvão Gomes, Naddodd, Thekla Resvoll, and Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1728, Samuel Wallis ranks 21. Before him are Charles Eugene, Duke of Württemberg, Johann Adam Hiller, Shah Alam II, Kirill Razumovski, Matthew Boulton, and Oliver Goldsmith. After him are Carlo Allioni, Johann Andreas Stein, Hiraga Gennai, Franz Xaver von Wulfen, Ferdinando Galiani, and Maria Angela Ardinghelli. Among people deceased in 1795, Samuel Wallis ranks 16. Before him are Josiah Wedgwood, Charles II August, Duke of Zweibrücken, Archduke Alexander Leopold of Austria, James Boswell, Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart, and Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo. After him are Honoré III, Prince of Monaco, Pieter Boddaert, Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, Antonio de Ulloa, Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg, and Michel Corrette.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Samuel Wallis ranks 1,646 out of 8,785. Before him are David Yates (1963), Matthew Arnold (1822), Peter Barlow (1776), John Muir (1838), John Collier (1850), and George Grenville (1712). After him are Edward Fox (1937), Rebecca West (1892), Sebastian Coe (1956), Kate Moss (1974), Thomas Sydenham (1624), and Jeanette (1951).

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Among EXPLORERS In United Kingdom

Among explorers born in United Kingdom, Samuel Wallis ranks 26. Before him are Martin Frobisher (1535), James Bruce (1730), John Rolfe (1585), William Parry (1790), Alexander Mackenzie (1764), and Matthew Flinders (1774). After him are John Ross (1777), Lady Hester Stanhope (1776), William Smith (1790), Anthony Jenkinson (1529), Humphrey Gilbert (1539), and Richard Chancellor (1521).

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