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A. E. Waite

1857 - 1942

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Arthur Edward Waite (2 October 1857 – 19 May 1942) was a British poet and scholarly mystic who wrote extensively on occult and esoteric matters, and was the co-creator of the Rider–Waite tarot deck (also called the Rider–Waite–Smith or Waite–Smith deck). As his biographer R. A. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of A. E. Waite has received more than 555,244 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. A. E. Waite is the 31st most popular occultist (up from 32nd in 2019), the 2,805th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,111th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular American Occultist.

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Among OCCULTISTS

Among occultists, A. E. Waite ranks 31 out of 37. Before him are Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers, Nina Kulagina, Michael Scot, Joséphin Péladan, Algernon Blackwood, and Stanislas de Guaita. After him are Elias Ashmole, Dion Fortune, Otto Witte, Israel Regardie, Manly P. Hall, and William Quan Judge.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1857, A. E. Waite ranks 60. Before him are Princess Marie of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Jacques de Morgan, Juan Vicente Gómez, Herman Bang, Gotō Shinpei, and Oskar von Hutier. After him are Émile Cohl, Hermann Sudermann, Abdurreshid Ibrahim, Duke John Albert of Mecklenburg, Arthur Arz von Straußenburg, and Julius Popper. Among people deceased in 1942, A. E. Waite ranks 87. Before him are Atsushi Nakajima, Cesare Mori, Georg Alexander Pick, Karel Doorman, Walter Sickert, and Leonid Kulik. After him are Vera Figner, Harro Schulze-Boysen, Titus Brandsma, Walther von Lüttwitz, Lidia Zamenhof, and Konstantin Balmont.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, A. E. Waite ranks 2,805 out of 18,182. Before him are Red Buttons (1919), Sandra Dee (1942), Dan Graham (1942), Suzanne Pleshette (1937), Abbie Hoffman (1936), and Gutzon Borglum (1867). After him are Mimi Rogers (1956), David Riesman (1909), Ronny Cox (1938), Allison Janney (1959), Richard Farnsworth (1920), and Theodore Sturgeon (1918).

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Among OCCULTISTS In United States

Among occultists born in United States, A. E. Waite ranks 3. Before him are Anton LaVey (1930) and Edgar Cayce (1877).

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