MILITARY PERSONNEL

William Bligh

1754 - 1817

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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 2,394,598 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). William Bligh is the 637th most popular military personnel (down from 500th in 2019), the 1,137th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 954th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular British Military Personnel.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.40

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.15

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, William Bligh ranks 637 out of 2,058. Before him are Hans Hermann von Katte, Walther Nehring, Tarrare, Harold Lowe, Surena, and Franz Hössler. After him are Hans Speidel, Demosthenes, Matthias Kleinheisterkamp, Sergey Biryuzov, Werner Ostendorff, and Max Immelmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1754, William Bligh ranks 18. Before him are Antoine Destutt de Tracy, Princess Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt, Jean-Baptiste Regnault, Salawat Yulayev, Louis de Bonald, and Catherine-Dominique de Pérignon. After him are Usman dan Fodio, Jean-Antoine Marbot, Salomon Maimon, Franz Xaver von Zach, Joseph Joubert, and Pavel Tsitsianov. Among people deceased in 1817, William Bligh ranks 16. Before him are Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Fyodor Ushakov, Karl Theodor Anton Maria von Dalberg, Abraham Gottlob Werner, and Nakşidil Sultan. After him are Theroigne de Mericourt, Usman dan Fodio, Étienne Méhul, Ibrahim Bey, Andrea Appiani, and Duke Louis of Württemberg.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Bligh ranks 1,137 out of 8,785. Before him are Harold Lowe (1882), Vita Sackville-West (1892), John Stewart Bell (1928), Gareth Jones (1905), Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689), and Adrian Lyne (1941). After him are Angus Deaton (1945), Charles Bell (1774), Warren Hastings (1732), Allen Carr (1934), Domnall mac Ailpín (812), and John Austin (1790).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, William Bligh ranks 23. Before him are John Hawkins (1532), Woodes Rogers (1679), John Hanning Speke (1827), Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell (1883), William Stuart-Houston (1911), and Harold Lowe (1882). After him are Joseph Boxhall (1884), Bertram Ramsay (1883), Andrew Parker Bowles (1939), Jack Phillips (1887), Robert Maynard (1684), and Henry Tandey (1891).

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