MILITARY PERSONNEL

Woodes Rogers

1679 - 1732

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Woodes Rogers (c. 1679 – 15 July 1732) was an English sea captain, privateer and colonial administrator who served as the governor of the Bahamas from 1718 to 1721 and again from 1728 to 1732. He is remembered as the captain of the vessel that rescued marooned Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk, whose plight is generally believed to have inspired Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe. Rogers came from an experienced seafaring family, grew up in Poole and Bristol, and served a marine apprenticeship to a Bristol sea captain. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Woodes Rogers has received more than 1,717,875 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Woodes Rogers is the 573rd most popular military personnel (up from 584th in 2019), the 1,029th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,092nd in 2019) and the 18th most popular British Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Woodes Rogers ranks 573 out of 2,058. Before him are Carl Gustaf Wrangel, Louis-Gabriel Suchet, Oghul Qaimish, Otto Kumm, Filipp Golikov, and Georg Stumme. After him are Zhou Tai, Zhuge Jin, Rüdiger von der Goltz, William Tecumseh Sherman, Giorgio Basta, and Ivan Chernyakhovsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1679, Woodes Rogers ranks 4. Before him are Christian Wolff, Leopold, Duke of Lorraine, and Jan Dismas Zelenka. After him are Antonio Farnese, Duke of Parma, Charles III William, Margrave of Baden-Durlach, Jean François de Troy, Princess Magdalena Augusta of Anhalt-Zerbst, Pietro Filippo Scarlatti, Pierre Fauchard, Firmin Abauzit, and Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen. Among people deceased in 1732, Woodes Rogers ranks 3. Before him are Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia, and Emperor Reigen. After him are Louis Marchand, André Charles Boulle, John Gay, Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Baden-Durlach, Joseph Johann Adam, Prince of Liechtenstein, Count Palatine Francis Louis of Neuburg, Theodore Eustace, Count Palatine of Sulzbach, Frederick II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, and Marie Thérèse de Bourbon.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Woodes Rogers ranks 1,029 out of 8,785. Before him are Infante Alfonso Carlos, Duke of San Jaime (1849), Emperor Norton (1818), William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse (1800), Mary Mallon (1869), John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich (1718), and Ricky Gervais (1961). After him are Jeremy Brett (1933), Michael Palin (1943), Anna Atkins (1799), George Robert Gray (1808), Henry Tingle Wilde (1872), and John Balliol (1249).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, Woodes Rogers ranks 18. Before him are James Paul Moody (1887), John Franklin (1786), Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (1738), Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis (1891), Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig (1861), and John Hawkins (1532). After him are John Hanning Speke (1827), Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell (1883), William Stuart-Houston (1911), Harold Lowe (1882), William Bligh (1754), and Joseph Boxhall (1884).

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