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Pocahontas

1595 - 1617

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Pocahontas (US: , UK: ; born Amonute, also known as Matoaka and Rebecca Rolfe; c. 1596 – March 1617) was a Native American woman belonging to the Powhatan people, notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia. She was the daughter of Wahunsenacawh, the paramount chief of a network of tributary tribes in the Tsenacommacah (known in English as the Powhatan Confederacy), encompassing the Tidewater region of what is today the U.S. state of Virginia. Pocahontas was captured and held for ransom by English colonists during hostilities in 1613. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pocahontas is the most popular diplomat, the 39th most popular biography from United States (down from 33rd in 2019) and the most popular American Diplomat.

Pocahontas is most famous for being the daughter of Powhatan, the Chief of the Powhatan Confederacy. She is also famous for saving the life of John Smith, a Jamestown settler, by warning him of an impending attack by her father.

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Among DIPLOMATS

Among diplomats, Pocahontas ranks 1 out of 90. After her are Kofi Annan, Dag Hammarskjöld, Gaius Marius, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, John Jay, Ban Ki-moon, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Alexandra Kollontai, John R. Bolton, Raoul Wallenberg, and Antony Blinken.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1595, Pocahontas ranks 1. After her are Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Władysław IV Vasa, Injo of Joseon, Alessandro Algardi, George William, Elector of Brandenburg, Dirck van Baburen, Jean Chapelain, Vasile Lupu, Antonio Maria Abbatini, Ludovico Ludovisi, and Pieter de Molijn. Among people deceased in 1617, Pocahontas ranks 1. After her are Ahmed I, John Napier, Francisco Suárez, Rose of Lima, Hendrik Goltzius, Emperor Go-Yōzei, Dorothea of Denmark, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg, David Fabricius, Concino Concini, 4th Dalai Lama, and Fausto Veranzio.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Pocahontas ranks 39 out of 20,380. Before her are Neil Armstrong (1930), Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882), Benjamin Franklin (1706), John Forbes Nash Jr. (1928), Cher (1946), and Madonna (1958). After her are Martin Scorsese (1942), Joseph Smith (1805), Emily Dickinson (1830), Michael Jackson (1958), Ernest Hemingway (1899), and Al Gore (1948).

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Among DIPLOMATS In United States

Among diplomats born in United States, Pocahontas ranks 1. After her are John Jay (1745), John R. Bolton (1948), Antony Blinken (1962), Adlai Stevenson II (1900), Jean Kennedy Smith (1928), George F. Kennan (1904), William J. Burns (1956), J. Christopher Stevens (1960), Dean Acheson (1893), Richard Holbrooke (1941), and Richard Armitage (1945).

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