The Most Famous
WRITERS from Luxembourg
This page contains a list of the greatest Luxembourger Writers. The pantheon dataset contains 7,302 Writers, 1 of which were born in Luxembourg. This makes Luxembourg the birth place of the 126th most number of Writers behind Tanzania, and Saint Lucia.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Luxembourger Writers of all time. This list of famous Luxembourger Writers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Hugo Gernsback (1884 - 1967)
With an HPI of 60.69, Hugo Gernsback is the most famous Luxembourger Writer. His biography has been translated into 37 different languages on wikipedia.
Hugo Gernsback (; born Hugo Gernsbacher, August 16, 1884 – August 19, 1967) was a Luxembourgish American editor and magazine publisher whose publications included the first science fiction magazine, Amazing Stories. His contributions to the genre as publisher were so significant that, along with the novelists Jules Verne and H. G. Wells, he is sometimes called "The Father of Science Fiction". In his honor, annual awards presented at the World Science Fiction Convention are named the "Hugos". Gernsback emigrated to the U.S. in 1904 and later became a citizen. He was also a significant figure in the electronics and radio industries, even starting a radio station, WRNY, and the world's first magazine about electronics and radio, Modern Electrics. Gernsback died in New York City in 1967.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Luxembourger writers born between 1884 and 1884. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Luxembourger writers include Hugo Gernsback.
