MILITARY PERSONNEL

William Brown

1777 - 1857

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William Brown (also known in Spanish as Guillermo Brown or Almirante Brown) (22 June 1777 – 3 March 1857) was an Irish sailor, merchant, and naval commander who served in the Argentine Navy during the wars of the early 19th century. Brown's successes in the Argentine War of Independence, the Cisplatine War, and the Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata earned the respect and appreciation of the Argentine people, and he is regarded as one of Argentina's national heroes. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Brown has received more than 72,256 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 23 in 2019). William Brown is the 1,173rd most popular military personnel (down from 1,016th in 2019), the 105th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 95th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Irish Military Personnel.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.99

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.89

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, William Brown ranks 1,173 out of 2,058. Before him are Wilhelm Falley, Juan Martín Díez, Otto Lasch, Eduard Wagner, Pavel Rybalko, and Semyon Krivoshein. After him are Oku Yasukata, Gonzalo Queipo de Llano, Kodama Gentarō, Ivan Tyulenev, Hugh Dowding, and Andrei Shkuro.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1777, William Brown ranks 31. Before him are Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom, William II, Elector of Hesse, Heinrich Marx, Madame Clicquot Ponsardin, Aleksander Orłowski, and Christian Daniel Rauch. After him are Hyacinth, Casimir Pierre Périer, Heinrich Rudolf Schinz, Marie Jules César Savigny, Luis María de Borbón y Vallabriga, and Louis Hersent. Among people deceased in 1857, William Brown ranks 35. Before him are Princess Henriette of Nassau-Weilburg, Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Infanta Ana de Jesus Maria of Braganza, Augustinos Kapodistrias, Christian Daniel Rauch, and Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh. After him are Duke Eugen of Württemberg, Agustina de Aragón, Johann Jakob Heckel, William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst, Carl Ludwig Koch, and Johann Georg Hiedler.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, William Brown ranks 105 out of 549. Before him are Roy Keane (1971), Arthur Griffith (1871), John Millington Synge (1871), Fiona Shaw (1958), Arthur Guinness (1725), and Constantine III of Scotland (971). After him are Edward Bransfield (1785), John Boland (1870), Roger Casement (1864), Richard Montgomery (1738), G. E. M. Anscombe (1919), and Jonathan Rhys Meyers (1977).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Ireland

Among military personnels born in Ireland, William Brown ranks 3. Before him are Peter Lacy (1678), and Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope (1883). After him are Richard Montgomery (1738), Alan Cunningham (1887), John de Robeck (1862), George Browne (1698), Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley (1833), Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough (1779), and Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet (1864).

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