1868 - 1932
Ahmed Shawqi (Arabic: أحمد شوقي, ALA-LC: Aḥmad Shawqī, Egyptian Arabic pronunciation: [ˈʔæħmæd ˈʃæwʔi]; 1868–1932), nicknamed the Prince of Poets (Arabic: أمير الشعراء Amīr al-Shu‘arā’), was an Egyptian poet laureate, Linguist, and one of the most famous Arabic literary writers of the modern era in the Arab World. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ahmed Shawqi has received more than 333,822 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Ahmed Shawqi is the 1,512th most popular writer (up from 1,702nd in 2019), the 252nd most popular biography from Egypt (up from 259th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Egyptian Writer.
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Among writers, Ahmed Shawqi ranks 1,512 out of 5,755. Before him are Samuel Pepys, Władysław Tarnowski, Mário de Andrade, Herbjørg Wassmo, Lee Child, and Otfried Preußler. After him are Upton Sinclair, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Ion Luca Caragiale, Jules de Goncourt, Usama ibn Munqidh, and Jean-Jacques Ampère.
1633 - 1703
HPI: 57.56
Rank: 1,506
1836 - 1878
HPI: 57.54
Rank: 1,507
1893 - 1945
HPI: 57.54
Rank: 1,508
1942 - Present
HPI: 57.54
Rank: 1,509
1954 - Present
HPI: 57.54
Rank: 1,510
1923 - 2013
HPI: 57.54
Rank: 1,511
1868 - 1932
HPI: 57.53
Rank: 1,512
1878 - 1968
HPI: 57.53
Rank: 1,513
1930 - 1999
HPI: 57.53
Rank: 1,514
1852 - 1912
HPI: 57.53
Rank: 1,515
1830 - 1870
HPI: 57.53
Rank: 1,516
1095 - 1188
HPI: 57.50
Rank: 1,517
1800 - 1864
HPI: 57.49
Rank: 1,518
Among people born in 1868, Ahmed Shawqi ranks 63. Before him are Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom, Paul Otlet, Henry Bergman, Ernst Linder, Alice Keppel, and W. E. B. Du Bois. After him are Noe Zhordania, S. P. L. Sørensen, Mary Parker Follett, Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr., Paul P. Harris, and Archduke Ferdinand Karl of Austria. Among people deceased in 1932, Ahmed Shawqi ranks 34. Before him are Alexander Grin, John Charles Fields, Georg Kerschensteiner, Kang Pan-sok, Inukai Tsuyoshi, and Tomáš Baťa. After him are Reginald Fessenden, Ovide Decroly, John Philip Sousa, Johannes Schober, Louis Anquetin, and King C. Gillette.
1868 - 1935
HPI: 58.51
Rank: 57
1868 - 1944
HPI: 58.16
Rank: 58
1868 - 1946
HPI: 58.07
Rank: 59
1868 - 1943
HPI: 58.06
Rank: 60
1868 - 1947
HPI: 57.80
Rank: 61
1868 - 1963
HPI: 57.76
Rank: 62
1868 - 1932
HPI: 57.53
Rank: 63
1868 - 1953
HPI: 57.41
Rank: 64
1868 - 1939
HPI: 57.35
Rank: 65
1868 - 1933
HPI: 56.90
Rank: 66
1868 - 1924
HPI: 56.86
Rank: 67
1868 - 1947
HPI: 56.65
Rank: 68
1868 - 1915
HPI: 56.42
Rank: 69
1880 - 1932
HPI: 58.79
Rank: 28
1863 - 1932
HPI: 58.58
Rank: 29
1854 - 1932
HPI: 58.25
Rank: 30
1892 - 1932
HPI: 58.05
Rank: 31
1855 - 1932
HPI: 57.84
Rank: 32
1876 - 1932
HPI: 57.81
Rank: 33
1868 - 1932
HPI: 57.53
Rank: 34
1866 - 1932
HPI: 57.36
Rank: 35
1871 - 1932
HPI: 57.22
Rank: 36
1854 - 1932
HPI: 56.88
Rank: 37
1874 - 1932
HPI: 56.87
Rank: 38
1861 - 1932
HPI: 56.64
Rank: 39
1855 - 1932
HPI: 56.60
Rank: 40
Among people born in Egypt, Ahmed Shawqi ranks 252 out of 582. Before him are Jehan Sadat (1933), Suzanne Mubarak (1941), Al-Mustansir Billah (1029), Al-Muazzam Turanshah (1250), Mohammed Badie (1943), and An-Nasir Muhammad (1285). After him are Peire de Montagut (1200), Nepherites II (-400), Qakare Ibi (-2181), Pope Peter I of Alexandria (300), Wazner (-3500), and Neferhotep I (-1800).
1933 - 2021
HPI: 57.74
Rank: 246
1941 - Present
HPI: 57.62
Rank: 247
1029 - 1094
HPI: 57.60
Rank: 248
1250 - 1250
HPI: 57.58
Rank: 249
1943 - Present
HPI: 57.58
Rank: 250
1285 - 1341
HPI: 57.58
Rank: 251
1868 - 1932
HPI: 57.53
Rank: 252
1200 - 1232
HPI: 57.53
Rank: 253
400 BC - 380 BC
HPI: 57.47
Rank: 254
2181 BC - 2055 BC
HPI: 57.45
Rank: 255
300 - 311
HPI: 57.42
Rank: 256
3500 BC - 3050 BC
HPI: 57.42
Rank: 257
1800 BC - 1730 BC
HPI: 57.40
Rank: 258
Among writers born in Egypt, Ahmed Shawqi ranks 16. Before him are Nonnus (500), Pope Dionysius of Alexandria (190), Taha Hussein (1889), Dionysius Thrax (-170), Achilles Tatius (200), and Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888). After him are Herodas (-300), Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy (1928), Didymus Chalcenterus (-63), Ibn al-Farid (1181), Edmond Jabès (1912), and Tawfiq al-Hakim (1898).
500 - 500
HPI: 62.68
Rank: 10
190 - 264
HPI: 62.42
Rank: 11
1889 - 1973
HPI: 61.51
Rank: 12
170 BC - 89 BC
HPI: 60.14
Rank: 13
200 - 300
HPI: 59.44
Rank: 14
1888 - 1970
HPI: 58.12
Rank: 15
1868 - 1932
HPI: 57.53
Rank: 16
300 BC - 250 BC
HPI: 56.29
Rank: 17
1928 - 2010
HPI: 56.25
Rank: 18
63 BC - 10
HPI: 56.11
Rank: 19
1181 - 1234
HPI: 55.71
Rank: 20
1912 - 1991
HPI: 55.55
Rank: 21
1898 - 1987
HPI: 55.44
Rank: 22