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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 69,450 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). William Brown is the 1,016th most popular military personnel (down from 998th in 2019), the 96th most popular biography from Ireland (up from 101st in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Irish Military Personnel.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.03

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, William Brown ranks 1,016 out of 1,468. Before him are Grigory Kotovsky, Wilhelm Marschall, Mikhail Dmitrievich Gorchakov, Hans Graf von Sponeck, Constantin Prezan, and Justinian. After him are Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz, Manuel Erotikos Komnenos, Otto Ciliax, John Paul Jones, Pierre André de Suffren, and Max von Gallwitz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1777, William Brown ranks 26. Before him are Louis Poinsot, Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov, William II, Elector of Hesse, Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville, Lorenzo Bartolini, and Christian Daniel Rauch. After him are Heinrich Marx, Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom, Hyacinth, Aleksander Orłowski, Luis María de Borbón y Vallabriga, and Casimir Pierre Périer. Among people deceased in 1857, William Brown ranks 31. Before him are Hinrich Lichtenstein, Augustinos Kapodistrias, Duke Eugen of Württemberg, Dionysios Solomos, Christian Daniel Rauch, and Vasily Tropinin. After him are Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh, Agustina de Aragón, Frederick Scott Archer, William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst, Infanta Ana de Jesus Maria of Braganza, and Manuel Oribe.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, William Brown ranks 96 out of 501. Before him are Roger Casement (1864), Aidan Gillen (1968), Constantine III of Scotland (971), Patrick Pearse (1879), Arthur Guinness (1725), and Edward Mulhare (1923). After him are Saint Fiacre (607), Fiona Shaw (1958), Edward Bransfield (1785), Dymphna (700), Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley (1760), and Turlough O'Carolan (1670).

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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), George Browne (1698), Alan Cunningham (1887), Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley (1833), Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough (1779), and Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet (1864).

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