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Sextus Pompey

67 BC - 35 BC

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Sextus Pompeius Magnus Pius (c. 67 – 35 BC), also known in English as Sextus Pompey, was a Roman military leader who, throughout his life, upheld the cause of his father, Pompey the Great, against Julius Caesar and his supporters during the last civil wars of the Roman Republic. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sextus Pompey has received more than 560,504 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 35 in 2019). Sextus Pompey is the 12th most popular pirate (up from 13th in 2019), the 940th most popular biography from Italy (down from 721st in 2019) and the most popular Italian Pirate.

Sextus Pompey was a Roman general during the first century BC. He was the son of Pompey the Great and was given the nickname "Pompey the Little" to distinguish him from his father. He had a successful career in the military, but was eventually defeated by Julius Caesar.

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Among PIRATES

Among pirates, Sextus Pompey ranks 12 out of 25Before him are Bartholomew Roberts, Calico Jack, Mary Read, D. B. Cooper, William Kidd, and François l'Olonnais. After him are Henry Every, Ching Shih, Benjamin Hornigold, Charles Vane, Samuel Bellamy, and Edward England.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 67 BC, Sextus Pompey ranks 1 Among people deceased in 35 BC, Sextus Pompey ranks 1After him are Philodemus and Varro Atacinus.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Sextus Pompey ranks 940 out of 4,668Before him are Antipope Clement III (1025), Mina (1940), Roger de Flor (1267), John Singer Sargent (1856), Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici (1667), and Hormizd I (250). After him are Italo Svevo (1861), Baldassare Peruzzi (1481), Giovanni Battista Martini (1706), Antipope Anacletus II (1090), Francesco Guicciardini (1483), and Guy III of Spoleto (900).

Among PIRATES In Italy

Among pirates born in Italy, Sextus Pompey ranks 1After him are Carlo Rambaldi (1925).