1754 - 1817
Vice-Admiral William Bligh (9 September 1754 – 7 December 1817) was a British officer in the Royal Navy and a colonial administrator. He is best known for the mutiny on HMS Bounty, which occurred in 1789 when the ship was under his command. The reasons behind the mutiny continue to be debated. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Bligh has received more than 2,273,434 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). William Bligh is the 500th most popular military personnel (up from 521st in 2019), the 955th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,018th in 2019) and the 17th most popular British Military Personnel.
Page Views (PV)
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
Languages Editions (L)
Effective Languages (L*)
Coefficient of Variation (CV)
Among military personnels, William Bligh ranks 500 out of 1,468. Before him are Lucius Artorius Castus, Dmitry Pozharsky, Hans Baur, Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Lazare Hoche, and Pierre Cambronne. After him are Norman Schwarzkopf Jr., Jan Pieterszoon Coen, Duško Popov, Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock, Andreas Hofer, and Tamon Yamaguchi.
200 - 200
HPI: 59.65
Rank: 494
1577 - 1642
HPI: 59.63
Rank: 495
1897 - 1993
HPI: 59.63
Rank: 496
1594 - 1632
HPI: 59.61
Rank: 497
1768 - 1797
HPI: 59.59
Rank: 498
1770 - 1842
HPI: 59.56
Rank: 499
1754 - 1817
HPI: 59.54
Rank: 500
1934 - 2012
HPI: 59.51
Rank: 501
1587 - 1629
HPI: 59.50
Rank: 502
1912 - 1981
HPI: 59.47
Rank: 503
1911 - 1986
HPI: 59.46
Rank: 504
1767 - 1810
HPI: 59.46
Rank: 505
1892 - 1942
HPI: 59.44
Rank: 506
Among people born in 1754, William Bligh ranks 14. Before him are Madame Roland, Frederick I of Württemberg, Princess Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt, Bon-Adrien Jeannot de Moncey, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, and Georg Forster. After him are Louis de Bonald, Antoine Destutt de Tracy, Catherine-Dominique de Pérignon, Salawat Yulayev, Usman dan Fodio, and Jean-Antoine Marbot. Among people deceased in 1817, William Bligh ranks 13. Before him are Marie Walewska, Martin Heinrich Klaproth, Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, Princess Charlotte of Wales, Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, and Theroigne de Mericourt. After him are Fyodor Ushakov, Karl Theodor Anton Maria von Dalberg, Nakşidil Sultan, Abraham Gottlob Werner, Usman dan Fodio, and Étienne Méhul.
1754 - 1793
HPI: 62.32
Rank: 8
1754 - 1816
HPI: 61.67
Rank: 9
1754 - 1832
HPI: 61.51
Rank: 10
1754 - 1842
HPI: 60.70
Rank: 11
1754 - 1785
HPI: 59.99
Rank: 12
1754 - 1794
HPI: 59.93
Rank: 13
1754 - 1817
HPI: 59.54
Rank: 14
1754 - 1840
HPI: 59.09
Rank: 15
1754 - 1836
HPI: 58.80
Rank: 16
1754 - 1818
HPI: 58.54
Rank: 17
1754 - 1800
HPI: 58.40
Rank: 18
1754 - 1817
HPI: 57.72
Rank: 19
1754 - 1800
HPI: 57.07
Rank: 20
1786 - 1817
HPI: 66.13
Rank: 7
1743 - 1817
HPI: 65.36
Rank: 8
1784 - 1817
HPI: 63.70
Rank: 9
1796 - 1817
HPI: 62.32
Rank: 10
1727 - 1817
HPI: 60.80
Rank: 11
1762 - 1817
HPI: 60.15
Rank: 12
1754 - 1817
HPI: 59.54
Rank: 13
1745 - 1817
HPI: 59.37
Rank: 14
1744 - 1817
HPI: 59.08
Rank: 15
1768 - 1817
HPI: 58.78
Rank: 16
1749 - 1817
HPI: 58.71
Rank: 17
1754 - 1817
HPI: 57.72
Rank: 18
1763 - 1817
HPI: 56.90
Rank: 19
Among people born in United Kingdom, William Bligh ranks 955 out of 7,765. Before him are John Berger (1926), John Hawkwood (1320), Michael Palin (1943), Ian McDiarmid (1944), Ron Dennis (1947), and Michael Smith (1932). After him are Adam Ferguson (1723), E. E. Evans-Pritchard (1902), Keith Emerson (1944), Duncan Edwards (1936), Reginald Pole (1500), and Princess Muna al-Hussein (1941).
1926 - 2017
HPI: 59.58
Rank: 949
1320 - 1394
HPI: 59.57
Rank: 950
1943 - Present
HPI: 59.57
Rank: 951
1944 - Present
HPI: 59.55
Rank: 952
1947 - Present
HPI: 59.55
Rank: 953
1932 - 2000
HPI: 59.55
Rank: 954
1754 - 1817
HPI: 59.54
Rank: 955
1723 - 1816
HPI: 59.54
Rank: 956
1902 - 1973
HPI: 59.52
Rank: 957
1944 - 2016
HPI: 59.52
Rank: 958
1936 - 1958
HPI: 59.51
Rank: 959
1500 - 1558
HPI: 59.50
Rank: 960
1941 - Present
HPI: 59.48
Rank: 961
Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, William Bligh ranks 17. Before him are Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (1738), John Franklin (1786), Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby (1861), John Hanning Speke (1827), John Hawkins (1532), and James Paul Moody (1887). After him are Harold Lowe (1882), Paddy Roy Bates (1921), Jack Phillips (1887), Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis (1891), Woodes Rogers (1679), and Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell (1883).
1738 - 1805
HPI: 63.79
Rank: 11
1786 - 1847
HPI: 63.20
Rank: 12
1861 - 1936
HPI: 61.36
Rank: 13
1827 - 1864
HPI: 60.58
Rank: 14
1532 - 1595
HPI: 60.43
Rank: 15
1887 - 1912
HPI: 60.22
Rank: 16
1754 - 1817
HPI: 59.54
Rank: 17
1882 - 1944
HPI: 59.44
Rank: 18
1921 - 2012
HPI: 59.05
Rank: 19
1887 - 1912
HPI: 58.77
Rank: 20
1891 - 1969
HPI: 58.72
Rank: 21
1679 - 1732
HPI: 58.33
Rank: 22
1883 - 1950
HPI: 58.26
Rank: 23