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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 350,104 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Wilfred Thesiger is the 280th most popular explorer (down from 258th in 2019), the 27th most popular biography from Ethiopia (down from 22nd in 2019) and the most popular Ethiopian Explorer.

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  • 350k

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  • 51.11

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.13

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.85

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Wilfred Thesiger ranks 280 out of 405. Before him are Francis Crozier, Semyon Chelyuskin, Alexander Dalrymple, Eduard von Toll, Francis Younghusband, and Adolf Lüderitz. After him are Yuri Lisyansky, Afonso Gonçalves Baldaia, Gustav Adolf von Götzen, Edward S. Curtis, Francisco Moreno, and Jens Munk.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Wilfred Thesiger ranks 154. Before him are Ennio Flaiano, Helene Mayer, José Lezama Lima, Ángel Sanz Briz, Karl Kling, and Ram Manohar Lohia. After him are Gunnar Höckert, Cyril Cusack, Peter Pears, Heinrich Sutermeister, Aleksandr Tvardovsky, and Paulette Dubost. Among people deceased in 2003, Wilfred Thesiger ranks 150. Before him are Lothar Emmerich, Lewis A. Coser, Martha Chase, Karl Kling, Ahmadou Kourouma, and Rie Mastenbroek. After him are Benny Carter, Albert Batteux, Adam Osborne, Saifuddin Azizi, Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov, and Hans Hermann Groër.

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In Ethiopia

Among people born in Ethiopia, Wilfred Thesiger ranks 27 out of 89. Before him are Yohannes IV (1837), Mamo Wolde (1932), Fasilides (1603), Zara Yaqob (1399), Mulatu Astatke (1943), and Negasso Gidada (1943). After him are Dawit II (1496), Kenenisa Bekele (1982), Miruts Yifter (1944), Zera Yacob Amha Selassie (1953), Malik Ambar (1548), and Ezana of Axum (325).

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Among EXPLORERS In Ethiopia

Among explorers born in Ethiopia, Wilfred Thesiger ranks 1. 

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