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Guillaume Delisle

1675 - 1726

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Guillaume Delisle, also spelled Guillaume de l'Isle, or Guillelmo Delille (French pronunciation: [ɡijom dəlil]; 28 February 1675, Paris – 25 January 1726, Paris) was a French cartographer known for his popular and accurate maps of Europe and the newly explored Americas. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Guillaume Delisle is the 56th most popular geographer (up from 57th in 2019), the 3,405th most popular biography from France (up from 3,480th in 2019) and the 6th most popular French Geographer.

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Among GEOGRAPHERS

Among geographers, Guillaume Delisle ranks 56 out of 86. Before him are Claes Jansz. Visscher, Hans Meyer, Inō Tadataka, August Heinrich Petermann, Emmanuel de Martonne, and Johann Gottlieb Georgi. After him are Yves Lacoste, Pedro Reinel, Adolf Stieler, Johannes Gabriel Granö, Anton Friedrich Büsching, and Vaclav Smil.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1675, Guillaume Delisle ranks 9. Before him are Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, Tarabai, William Jones, Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, and Vakhtang VI of Kartli. After him are Frederick William, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Samuel Clarke, Princess Sibylle of Saxe-Lauenburg, and James Thornhill. Among people deceased in 1726, Guillaume Delisle ranks 15. Before him are Domenico Zipoli, John Vanbrugh, Princess Henriëtte Amalia of Anhalt-Dessau, Countess Charlotte of Hanau-Lichtenberg, Magdalena Sibylla of Saxe-Weissenfels, and Jakob Prandtauer. After him are Antonio Palomino, Antonio Maria Bononcini, and Eleonore Wilhelmine of Anhalt-Köthen.

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In France

Among people born in France, Guillaume Delisle ranks 3,405 out of 6,770. Before him are Jacques Dupont (1928), Albert Ayat (1875), Marie-Louise Lachapelle (1769), Claude Thomas Alexis Jordan (1814), Armand Salacrou (1899), and Pierre Gaveaux (1761). After him are Joseph Paul Gaimard (1793), Jamel Debbouze (1975), Jacques Delille (1738), Louise Moillon (1610), Joseph Canteloube (1879), and Bernard Stiegler (1952).

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Among GEOGRAPHERS In France

Among geographers born in France, Guillaume Delisle ranks 6. Before him are Paul Vidal de La Blache (1845), Élisée Reclus (1830), Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville (1697), Nicolas Sanson (1600), and Emmanuel de Martonne (1873). After him are Nicolas de Fer (1646), and Guillaume Grandidier (1873).

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