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Tryggve Gran

1888 - 1980

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Jens Tryggve Herman Gran (20 January 1888 – 8 January 1980) was a Norwegian aviator, polar explorer and author. He was the skiing expert on the 1910–13 Scott Antarctic Expedition and was the first person to fly across the North Sea from Scotland to Norway in a heavier-than-air aircraft in August 1914. During WW1 he joined the Royal Flying Corps and flew night bombing raids on the Western Front, for which he was awarded the Military Cross. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tryggve Gran has received more than 73,386 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Tryggve Gran is the 474th most popular explorer (down from 403rd in 2019), the 506th most popular biography from Norway (down from 323rd in 2019) and the 25th most popular Norwegian Explorer.

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  • 73k

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  • 50.48

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.37

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.74

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Tryggve Gran ranks 474 out of 498. Before him are Nain Singh, Tom Crean, Oscar Baumann, George Grey, Jan Carstenszoon, and Hubert Wilkins. After him are Adolphus Greely, Wiley Post, Elisha Kent Kane, Samuel Hearne, David Thompson, and Sarat Chandra Das.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Tryggve Gran ranks 259. Before him are Jan Palouš, Josef Ternström, Gabriel Thorstensen, Lowell Sherman, Joyce Cary, and Hubert Wilkins. After him are Christian Gitsham, Walther Penck, Jack Holt, Harold Hardwick, Alexander Alfonsovich Grossheim, and Tris Speaker. Among people deceased in 1980, Tryggve Gran ranks 282. Before him are John McEwen, William Gemmell Cochran, Shohachi Ishii, Gumercindo Gómez, Rachel Fuller Brown, and Pietro Genovesi. After him are Marion Zinderstein, Barbara Pym, Lillian Randolph, Elliott Nugent, Barney Bigard, and Lucy Morton.

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In Norway

Among people born in Norway, Tryggve Gran ranks 506 out of 1,039. Before him are Brit Pettersen (1961), Necrobutcher (1968), Otto Bahr Halvorsen (1872), Per-Mathias Høgmo (1959), Jens Bratlie (1856), and Leif Ove Andsnes (1970). After him are Daniel Cornelius Danielssen (1815), Anne-Grete Strøm-Erichsen (1949), Ane Brun (1976), Tore Pedersen (1969), Kjetil Rekdal (1968), and Stine Bredal Oftedal (1991).

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Among EXPLORERS In Norway

Among explorers born in Norway, Tryggve Gran ranks 25. Before him are Knut Haugland (1917), Olav Bjaaland (1873), Finn Ronne (1899), Lars Christensen (1884), Kristian Prestrud (1881), and Sverre Hassel (1876). After him are Erling Kagge (1963).

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