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Samuel Johnson

English poet, biographer, essayist, and lexicographer

1709 - 1784

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His biography is available in 75 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 73 in 2024). Samuel Johnson is the 634th most popular writer (down from 627th in 2024), the 581st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 452nd in 2019) and the 60th most popular British Writer.

Samuel Johnson is most famous for being an English lexicographer, author, and critic.

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#1

Samuel Johnson is the most memorable of the 4 notable people born in Lichfield, in what is now modern-day United Kingdom.

#7,453

More than 2 centuries after death, Samuel Johnson still holds rank #7,453 among all individuals in Pantheon.

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Samuel Johnson's biography appears in 75 language editions of Wikipedia — more than 95% of all Writers.

Sep 18

Samuel Johnson shares a September 18 birthday with Trajan, Pope Gregory XVI, and Edwin McMillan.

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Among Writers

Among writers, Samuel Johnson ranks 634 out of 7,302. Before him are Franz Werfel, André Chénier, Kumārajīva, Gabriele Amorth, Kōbō Abe, and Meera. After him are Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Aratus, A. J. Cronin, Allen Ginsberg, Hermann Broch, and Mikael Agricola.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1709, Samuel Johnson ranks 3. Before him are Elizabeth of Russia, and Julien Offray de La Mettrie. After him are Jacques de Vaucanson, Georg Wilhelm Steller, Franz Benda, Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange, Gabriel Bonnot de Mably, Johann Georg Gmelin, Andreas Sigismund Marggraf, and Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans. Among people deceased in 1784, Samuel Johnson ranks 5. Before him are Denis Diderot, Count of St. Germain, Phillis Wheatley, and Wilhelm Friedemann Bach. After him are Giovanni Battista Martini, Junípero Serra, Torbern Bergman, Otto Friedrich Müller, César-François Cassini de Thury, Anders Johan Lexell, and Princess Friederike Luise of Prussia.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Samuel Johnson ranks 581 out of 8,785. Before him are John Knox (1514), Christopher Wren (1632), John Turner (1929), James Bradley (1693), Domnall mac Ailpín (812), and Richard Branson (1950). After him are Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772), A. J. Cronin (1896), William Petty (1623), Joan of the Tower (1321), Edward the Confessor (1003), and Jack Phillips (1887).

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Among Writers In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Samuel Johnson ranks 60. Before him are Beatrix Potter (1866), Frederick Forsyth (1938), John Donne (1572), George Eliot (1819), Robert Burns (1759), and Harold Pinter (1930). After him are Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772), A. J. Cronin (1896), Alexander Pope (1688), A. A. Milne (1882), Gerald Gardner (1884), and Daphne du Maurier (1907).

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