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Rob Roy MacGregor

1671 - 1734

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Robert Roy MacGregor (Scottish Gaelic: Raibeart Ruadh MacGriogair; 7 March 1671 – 28 December 1734) was a Jacobite Scottish outlaw, who later became a Scottish and Jacobite folk hero. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Rob Roy MacGregor is the 5,674th most popular politician (up from 6,025th in 2019), the 1,277th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,193rd in 2019) and the 242nd most popular British Politician.

Rob Roy MacGregor is most famous for his exploits as a cattle thief and smuggler, and for his role in the Jacobite uprisings of 1715 and 1745.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Rob Roy MacGregor ranks 5,674 out of 19,576Before him are Tammam Salam, Emperor Wenzong of Tang, Verginia, Emperor Juntoku, Altan Khan, and Khaleda Zia. After him are Philippe Buonarroti, Giovanni Sforza, Adolf Schärf, Evagoras I, Louise Marie Thérèse of Artois, and Princess Christine Louise of Oettingen-Oettingen.

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Among people born in 1671, Rob Roy MacGregor ranks 12Before him are Christiane Eberhardine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Frederick IV, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, Johann Christoph Bach, Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, Louis Rudolph, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and Duchess Charlotte Felicitas of Brunswick-Lüneburg. After him are Princess Christine Louise of Oettingen-Oettingen, Luigi Guido Grandi, Antoine Forqueray, Joseph Clemens of Bavaria, François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie, and Alivardi Khan. Among people deceased in 1734, Rob Roy MacGregor ranks 4Before him are Georg Ernst Stahl, Claude Louis Hector de Villars, and Giovanni Ceva. After him are Sebastiano Ricci, James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, Richard Cantillon, Louise de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth, Johann Conrad Dippel, Danylo Apostol, Domenico Trezzini, and Abigail Masham, Baroness Masham.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Rob Roy MacGregor ranks 1,277 out of 8,785Before him are Charles W. Alcock (1842), John Fisher (1469), John Berger (1926), Alastair Windsor, 2nd Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (1914), Allan Pinkerton (1819), and Imelda Staunton (1956). After him are Cynthia Lennon (1939), Dirk Bogarde (1921), James Paul Moody (1887), Joseph Bell (1837), George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney (1718), and Orlando Bloom (1977).

Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Rob Roy MacGregor ranks 242Before him are Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany (1158), Louisa Adams (1775), John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich (1718), Margaret Bondfield (1873), Philip Howard, 13th Earl of Arundel (1557), and George Canning (1770). After him are Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury (1473), Louis Lucien Bonaparte (1813), Lord Randolph Churchill (1849), Arthur Phillip (1738), Olave Baden-Powell (1889), and John de la Pole, 1st Earl of Lincoln (1462).