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Wilfred Thesiger

1910 - 2003

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Sir Wilfred Patrick Thesiger (3 June 1910 – 24 August 2003), also known as Mubarak bin Landan (Arabic: مُبَارَك بِن لَنْدَن, the blessed one of London) was a British military officer, explorer, and writer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wilfred Thesiger has received more than 367,988 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Wilfred Thesiger is the 284th most popular explorer (down from 279th in 2019), the 27th most popular biography from Ethiopia and the most popular Ethiopian Explorer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 370k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.63

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.61

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.94

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Wilfred Thesiger ranks 284 out of 498. Before him are Richard Chancellor, João Fernandes Lavrador, Annie Londonderry, Adolf Lüderitz, Charles Wilkes, and Ada Blackjack. After him are Otto Finsch, Freya Stark, Aleksei Chirikov, Henricus Martellus Germanus, Douglas Mawson, and Afonso Gonçalves Baldaia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Wilfred Thesiger ranks 156. Before him are Friedrich Franz, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Jean Servais, José Lezama Lima, Olga Bergholz, Gunnar Höckert, and Aldo Olivieri. After him are Georgios Zoitakis, Kelly Johnson, Hideo Shinojima, Qian Zhongshu, Pierre Musy, and T-Bone Walker. Among people deceased in 2003, Wilfred Thesiger ranks 150. Before him are Marc-Vivien Foé, Ahmadou Kourouma, Sam Phillips, João César Monteiro, Hope Lange, and Milton George Henschel. After him are Hume Cronyn, Fadwa Tuqan, Robert Stack, Kir Bulychev, Noel Redding, and Christopher Hill.

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In Ethiopia

Among people born in Ethiopia, Wilfred Thesiger ranks 27 out of 105. Before him are Taytu Betul (1851), Haile Gebrselassie (1973), Amha Selassie (1916), Mamo Wolde (1932), Yohannes IV (1837), and Negasso Gidada (1943). After him are Gudit (950), Mulatu Astatke (1943), Zara Yaqob (1399), Miruts Yifter (1944), Dawit II (1496), and Fasilides (1603).

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Among EXPLORERS In Ethiopia

Among explorers born in Ethiopia, Wilfred Thesiger ranks 1. 

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