EXPLORER

Samuel Baker

1821 - 1893

Samuel Baker

Sir Samuel White Baker (8 June 1821 – 30 December 1893) was an English explorer, officer, naturalist, big game hunter, engineer, writer and abolitionist. He also held the titles of Pasha and Major-General in the Ottoman Empire and Egypt. He served as the Governor-General of the Equatorial Nile Basin (today's South Sudan and Northern Uganda) between April 1869 and August 1873, which he established as the Province of Equatoria. He is mostly remembered as the first European to visit Lake Albert, as an explorer of the Nile and interior of central Africa, and for his exploits as a big game hunter in Asia, Africa, Europe and North America. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Samuel Baker is the 377th most popular explorer (down from 357th in 2019), the 3,493rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,046th in 2019) and the 47th most popular British Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Samuel Baker ranks 377 out of 498. Before him are Miguel Corte-Real, John Wesley Powell, George Bass, John Moresby, Olav Bjaaland, and Henri Duveyrier. After him are Fernão de Loronha, Knut Haugland, Vasily Chichagov, Gombojab Tsybikov, Alexander Burnes, and Jacques Bernard Hombron.

Most Popular Explorers in Wikipedia

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Miguel Corte-Real
1448 - 1502
HPI: 57.43
Rank: 371
John Wesley Powell
1834 - 1902
HPI: 57.41
Rank: 372
George Bass
1771 - 1803
HPI: 57.40
Rank: 373
John Moresby
1830 - 1922
HPI: 57.22
Rank: 374
Olav Bjaaland
1873 - 1961
HPI: 57.15
Rank: 375
Henri Duveyrier
1840 - 1892
HPI: 57.00
Rank: 376
Samuel Baker
1821 - 1893
HPI: 56.98
Rank: 377
Fernão de Loronha
1470 - 1540
HPI: 56.93
Rank: 378
Knut Haugland
1917 - 2009
HPI: 56.93
Rank: 379
Vasily Chichagov
1726 - 1809
HPI: 56.86
Rank: 380
Gombojab Tsybikov
1873 - 1930
HPI: 56.86
Rank: 381
Alexander Burnes
1805 - 1841
HPI: 56.82
Rank: 382
Jacques Bernard Hombron
1798 - 1852
HPI: 56.81
Rank: 383

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1821, Samuel Baker ranks 82. Before him are Janko Matúška, Friedrich Kiel, Heinrich Moritz Willkomm, Henri Alexis Brialmont, Michel Carré, and Amalie Dietrich. After him are Charles of Mount Argus, Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae, Jane Wilde, William Henry Vanderbilt, Marcus Goldman, and Charles Francis Hall. Among people deceased in 1893, Samuel Baker ranks 66. Before him are Adolphe Yvon, Joseph Hellmesberger Sr., Michał Elwiro Andriolli, Victor Schœlcher, Arnaud-Michel d'Abbadie, and Aloys Sprenger. After him are Charles of Mount Argus, James G. Blaine, Ignacio Manuel Altamirano, Duleep Singh, Richard Spruce, and Karl Bodmer.

Others Born in 1821

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Janko Matúška
WRITER
1821 - 1877
HPI: 58.03
Rank: 76
Friedrich Kiel
COMPOSER
1821 - 1885
HPI: 58.02
Rank: 77
Heinrich Moritz Willkomm
BIOLOGIST
1821 - 1895
HPI: 57.91
Rank: 78
Henri Alexis Brialmont
POLITICIAN
1821 - 1903
HPI: 57.81
Rank: 79
Michel Carré
WRITER
1821 - 1872
HPI: 57.80
Rank: 80
Amalie Dietrich
BIOLOGIST
1821 - 1891
HPI: 57.47
Rank: 81
Samuel Baker
EXPLORER
1821 - 1893
HPI: 56.98
Rank: 82
Charles of Mount Argus
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
1821 - 1893
HPI: 56.86
Rank: 83
Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae
ARCHAEOLOGIST
1821 - 1885
HPI: 56.64
Rank: 84
Jane Wilde
WRITER
1821 - 1896
HPI: 56.38
Rank: 85
William Henry Vanderbilt
BUSINESSPERSON
1821 - 1885
HPI: 56.04
Rank: 86
Marcus Goldman
BUSINESSPERSON
1821 - 1904
HPI: 55.99
Rank: 87
Charles Francis Hall
EXPLORER
1821 - 1871
HPI: 55.65
Rank: 88