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Frederick Russell Burnham

1861 - 1947

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Major Frederick Russell Burnham DSO (May 11, 1861 – September 1, 1947) was an American scout and world-traveling adventurer. He is known for his service to the British South Africa Company and to the British Army in colonial Africa, and for teaching woodcraft to Robert Baden-Powell in Rhodesia. Burnham helped inspire the founding of the international Scouting Movement. Burnham was born on a Dakota Sioux Indian reservation in Minnesota, in the small village of Tivoli near the city of Mankato; there he learned the ways of American Indians as a boy. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Frederick Russell Burnham is the 432nd most popular explorer (down from 403rd in 2019), the 8,388th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,914th in 2019) and the 31st most popular American Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Frederick Russell Burnham ranks 432 out of 498. Before him are György Almásy, Finn Ronne, Ivan Moskvitin, François Levaillant, Anthony de la Roché, and Sverre Hassel. After him are Tim Severin, Alfred Maudslay, Johann Ludwig Krapf, Carl Koldewey, Tobias Furneaux, and Mikhail Somov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1861, Frederick Russell Burnham ranks 133. Before him are Theodore Roberts, Josefine Swoboda, Kalliroi Parren, Cesare Burali-Forti, Phyllis Allen, and Pedro Figari. After him are Vasily Andreyev, Friedrich Engel, Feodor Yulievich Levinson-Lessing, Andrei Ryabushkin, Federico De Roberto, and Hans Goldschmidt. Among people deceased in 1947, Frederick Russell Burnham ranks 189. Before him are Manuel Machado, Joseph Barcroft, Frank Heller, Kálmán Tihanyi, Oscar Grégoire, and Charles Gondouin. After him are Ekaterina Karavelova, Giovanni Delise, Charles Schlee, Julio C. Tello, Tomás Berreta, and Petras Cvirka.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Frederick Russell Burnham ranks 8,390 out of 20,380. Before him are Robin Morgan (1941), Milton H. Greene (1922), Betty Field (1913), Colin Hanks (1977), Lloyd Bentsen (1921), and James Brady (1940). After him are Duvall Hecht (1930), Da'Vine Joy Randolph (1986), Avery Brooks (1948), Eric Szmanda (1975), Joan Van Ark (1943), and John P. Kennedy (1795).

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Among EXPLORERS In United States

Among explorers born in United States, Frederick Russell Burnham ranks 31. Before him are Edward S. Curtis (1868), John Wesley Powell (1834), Nathaniel Palmer (1799), George Kennan (1845), Charles Francis Hall (1821), and Isaac Israel Hayes (1832). After him are Matthew Henson (1866), John Colter (1774), Adolphus Greely (1844), Wiley Post (1898), Benjamin Morrell (1795), and Ezra Meeker (1830).

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