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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 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). A. E. Waite is the 32nd most popular occultist (down from 31st in 2019), the 2,623rd most popular biography from United States (up from 2,798th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular American Occultist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 560k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.89

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.90

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.14

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year A. E. Waite has had the most page views in the with 61,797 views, followed by Russian (26,458), and Spanish (9,459). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Bulgarian (354.50%), Persian (135.28%), and Swedish (82.98%)

Among OCCULTISTS

Among occultists, A. E. Waite ranks 32 out of 41. Before him are Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers, Charles Webster Leadbeater, Nina Kulagina, Alice Bailey, Algernon Blackwood, and Joséphin Péladan. After him are Elias Ashmole, Dion Fortune, Otto Witte, Israel Regardie, Tituba, and Manly P. Hall.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1857, A. E. Waite ranks 57. Before him are Williamina Fleming, Cyril Genik, Juan Vicente Gómez, Princess Marie of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Şehzade Yusuf Izzeddin, and Jacques de Morgan. After him are Herman Bang, Gotō Shinpei, Duke John Albert of Mecklenburg, Alfred Loisy, Luigi Illica, and Fergus Suter. Among people deceased in 1942, A. E. Waite ranks 87. Before him are Atsushi Nakajima, Walter Sickert, Stjepan Filipović, Vera Figner, Alois Eliáš, and Henk Sneevliet. After him are Walther von Lüttwitz, Dorando Pietri, Karel Doorman, Rudolf Spielmann, Titus Brandsma, and Harro Schulze-Boysen.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, A. E. Waite ranks 2,623 out of 20,380. Before him are Jack Nicklaus (1940), Melissa McCarthy (1970), Marvin Harris (1927), Eleanor F. Helin (1932), Lew Ayres (1908), and Drew Barrymore (1975). After him are John Grinder (1940), Dorothea Tanning (1910), Walter Tevis (1928), J. T. Walsh (1943), James M. Cain (1892), and Gertrude Ederle (1905).

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Among OCCULTISTS In United States

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

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