The Most Famous

Writers from Benin

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This page contains a list of the greatest Beninese Writers. The pantheon dataset contains 7,302 Writers, 1 of which were born in Benin. This makes Benin the birth place of the 129th most number of Writers behind Uganda and Sierra Leone.

Top 1 Beninese Writers

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Beninese Writers of all time. This list of famous Beninese Writers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.

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    Phillis Wheatley

    1753 - 1784

    HPI 73.5844 langs

    first African-American poet (1753–1784)

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