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Zheng Zhilong

1604 - 1661

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Zheng Zhilong, Marquis of Tong'an (Chinese: 鄭芝龍; pinyin: Zheng Zhilong; Wade–Giles: Ching Chih-lung; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tēⁿ Chi-liông; April 16, 1604 – November 24, 1661), baptismal name Nicholas Iquan Gaspard, was a Fujianese(Hokkien) admiral, pirate leader, merchant, translator, military general, and politician of the late Ming dynasty who later defected to the Manchu Qing. He was the founder of the Zheng Dynasty, the father of Koxinga, Prince of Yanping(Zheng Chenggong 鄭成功), the founder of the pro-Ming Kingdom of Tungning in Taiwan, and as such an ancestor of the House of Koxinga. Durring his reign, he controlled giant and powerful fleets of pirates that later joined up with the Ming Dynasty's navy, which he became a Ming admiral that controlled all trade and security in the southern waters, and held the most powerful maritime empire which controlled more sea than land. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Zheng Zhilong has received more than 188,172 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Zheng Zhilong is the 8,160th most popular politician (down from 7,529th in 2019), the 572nd most popular biography from China (down from 528th in 2019) and the 331st most popular Chinese Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Zheng Zhilong ranks 8,160 out of 15,577Before him are Shuttarna II, Margravine Johanna of Baden-Baden, Gertrude of Austria, John I Doukas of Thessaly, Prince William of Hesse-Kassel, and Akbar II. After him are Sekhemre-Heruhirmaat Intef, Ernst I, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Hippocrates of Gela, Caspar Bartholin the Younger, Yasovarman I, and Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1604, Zheng Zhilong ranks 11Before him are Claudia de' Medici, John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen, Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine, İslâm III Giray, Bernard of Saxe-Weimar, and Catherine of Brandenburg. After him are Antoine III de Gramont, Menasseh Ben Israel, Abraham Bosse, Heinrich Albert, and John Eliot. Among people deceased in 1661, Zheng Zhilong ranks 12Before him are Vasile Lupu, Andrea Sacchi, George II, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, Jan Fyt, Louis Couperin, and Martino Martini. After him are Teimuraz I of Kakheti, Guru Har Rai, Pieter de Molijn, Pyotr Beketov, Thomas Fuller, and Shah Shuja.

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In China

Among people born in China, Zheng Zhilong ranks 572 out of 1,392Before him are Rabban Bar Sauma (1220), Ding Ruchang (1836), Edward Yang (1947), Joseph Zen (1932), Zhang Zai (1020), and Kang Sheng (1898). After him are Yuan Longping (1930), Sengge Rinchen (1811), Ruan Lingyu (1910), Wang Ming (1904), Bada Shanren (1626), and Jin Midi (-134).

Among POLITICIANS In China

Among politicians born in China, Zheng Zhilong ranks 331Before him are Yin Lihua (5), Chen Gongbo (1892), Ho Feng-Shan (1901), Li Zhanshu (1950), Konstantin Rodzaevsky (1907), and Kang Sheng (1898). After him are Sengge Rinchen (1811), Wang Ming (1904), Jin Midi (-134), Ragibagh Khan (1320), Deng Sui (81), and Xu Shichang (1855).