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Alexandre Dumas

French writer and dramatist

1802 - 1870

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His biography is available in 115 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 112 in 2024). Alexandre Dumas is the 22nd most popular writer (up from 33rd in 2024), the 19th most popular biography from France (up from 34th in 2019) and the 6th most popular French Writer.

Alexandre Dumas is most famous for writing "The Three Musketeers" and "The Count of Monte Cristo."

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Alexandre Dumas is the most memorable of the 2 notable people born in Villers-Cotterêts, France.

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Alexandre Dumas's biography appears in 115 language editions of Wikipedia — more than 99% of all Writers.

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Alexandre Dumas shares a July 24 birthday with Simón Bolívar, Alphonse Mucha, and Ilya Repin.

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Alexandre Dumas's Wikipedia page drew 2.7M views over the past year — 22× the average among Writers.

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Among Writers

Among writers, Alexandre Dumas ranks 22 out of 7,302. Before him are Virgil, Molière, Miguel de Cervantes, Jean-Paul Sartre, T. S. Eliot, and Ovid. After him are Albert Camus, Hesiod, Anton Chekhov, Rumi, Petrarch, and Honoré de Balzac.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1802, Alexandre Dumas ranks 2. Before him is Victor Hugo. After him are Niels Henrik Abel, Archduke Franz Karl of Austria, Elias Lönnrot, Lajos Kossuth, János Bolyai, Miguel I of Portugal, Edwin Landseer, Louis-Eugène Cavaignac, Wilhelm Hauff, and Charles Wheatstone. Among people deceased in 1870, Alexandre Dumas ranks 1. After him are Charles Dickens, Prosper Mérimée, Robert E. Lee, Frédéric Bazille, Josef Strauss, Comte de Lautréamont, Alexander Herzen, Francisco Solano López, Ferdinand von Wrangel, Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and Gabriel Lamé.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alexandre Dumas ranks 19 out of 6,770. Before him are Montesquieu (1689), Maximilien Robespierre (1758), Jean-Paul Sartre (1905), Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807), Louis XV of France (1710), and Edward IV of England (1442). After him are Charles de Gaulle (1890), Nostradamus (1503), Honoré de Balzac (1799), Henri Matisse (1869), Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900), and Caracalla (188).

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Among Writers In France

Among writers born in France, Alexandre Dumas ranks 6. Before him are Victor Hugo (1802), Voltaire (1694), Jules Verne (1828), Molière (1622), and Jean-Paul Sartre (1905). After him are Honoré de Balzac (1799), Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900), Simone de Beauvoir (1908), Charles Baudelaire (1821), Marcel Proust (1871), and Denis Diderot (1713).

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