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William Walker

1824 - 1860

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William Walker (May 8, 1824 – September 12, 1860) was an American physician, lawyer, journalist, and mercenary. In the era of the expansion of the United States, driven by the doctrine of "manifest destiny", Walker organized unauthorized military expeditions into Mexico and Central America with the intention of establishing colonies. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Walker has received more than 56,828 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). William Walker is the 5,591st most popular politician (down from 4,711th in 2019), the 1,785th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,583rd in 2019) and the 124th most popular American Politician.

William Walker was most famous for his filibustering expeditions in Central America and Nicaragua. He led four filibustering expeditions, three of which he led to victory.

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  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.52

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, William Walker ranks 5,591 out of 19,576. Before him are Spiro Agnew, Lestek, Helena of Moscow, Karl August von Hardenberg, Radagaisus, and Odoardo Farnese, Duke of Parma. After him are Mikołaj "the Black" Radziwiłł, Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia, Doubravka of Bohemia, François Georges-Picot, Athanagild, and Marwan Barghouti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1824, William Walker ranks 21. Before him are Dayananda Saraswati, Antoine, Duke of Montpensier, Stonewall Jackson, William Huggins, Princess Francisca of Brazil, and Princess Sophie of the Netherlands. After him are Jozef Israëls, Ludwig Büchner, Tokugawa Iesada, Kuno Fischer, Francesc Pi i Margall, and Johann Wilhelm Hittorf. Among people deceased in 1860, William Walker ranks 14. Before him are János Bolyai, Stéphanie de Beauharnais, Julia Pastrana, Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Danilo I, Prince of Montenegro, and István Széchenyi. After him are Ang Duong, James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie, Carl Ritter von Ghega, George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Ernst Moritz Arndt, and Thomas Addison.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, William Walker ranks 1,785 out of 20,380. Before him are Robert J. Flaherty (1884), Ian Somerhalder (1978), Spiro Agnew (1918), Johnny Kitagawa (1931), Sterling Hayden (1916), and Clark L. Hull (1884). After him are Mary McDonnell (1952), Frank Oppenheimer (1912), Gregg Popovich (1949), James Oliver Curwood (1878), Chadwick Boseman (1977), and Robert Smithson (1938).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, William Walker ranks 124. Before him are Mark Felt (1913), Mitch McConnell (1942), Hiram Bingham III (1875), Wolfgang Kapp (1858), Clement Greenberg (1909), and Spiro Agnew (1918). After him are Paul Wolfowitz (1943), Sam Houston (1793), Ben Carson (1951), Ron Paul (1935), Cyrus Vance (1917), and Jim Garrison (1921).

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