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Rank	Topic	Wikipedia views
1	William Shakespeare	32,537
2	Elizabeth I of England	19,626
3	Walter Raleigh	3,676
4	Henry Hudson	3,040
5	William Bradford (Plymouth governor)	1,460
6	Myles Standish	546
7	George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore	358
8	William Brewster (pilgrim)	282
9	Margaret and Mary Shelton	183
10	John Heywood	112
11	Christopher Jones (sailor)	71
12	Margaret Roper	70
13	Thomas Derrick	52
14	Robert Hues	45
15	Christopher Levett	34
16	George Morton (pilgrim father)	18
17	Thomas Gargrave	17
18	Thomas Alcock (adventurer)	11
19	Heyward Townshend	10
20	Sir Hugh Underhill	10
21	Robert Amadas	8
22	Richard Bayfield	8
23	Robert Allott	8
24	Kerby (Ipswich martyr)	7
25	James Sandford (translator)	7
26	Thomas Underhill	6
27	John Alday	6
28	Laurence Aldersey	6
29	Thomas Hudson (poet)	less than 5 views
30	Percival Levett	less than 5 views
31	John Allenson	less than 5 views
32	Edmund Cosyn	less than 5 views
33	Henry Keble	less than 5 views
34	Robert Burrant	less than 5 views
35	Christopher Borough	less than 5 views
36	John Addison (divine)	less than 5 views

Subcategories

• English Renaissance humanists
• People of the Tudor period

Parent categories

• 16th century in England
• 16th-century people
• English people by century

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