1819 - 1884
Allan Pinkerton (August 21, 1819 – July 1, 1884) was a Scottish-American cooper, abolitionist, detective, and spy, best known for creating the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in the United States and his claim to have foiled a plot in 1861 to assassinate president-elect Abraham Lincoln. During the Civil War, he provided the Union Army – specifically General George B. McClellan of the Army of the Potomac – with military intelligence, including extremely inaccurate enemy troop strength numbers. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Allan Pinkerton has received more than 1,716,256 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Allan Pinkerton is the 1,090th most popular writer (up from 1,134th in 2019), the 870th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 883rd in 2019) and the 106th most popular British Writer.
Allan Pinkerton was a detective who founded the Pinkerton National Detective Agency. He is most famous for his role in the Lincoln assassination.
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Among writers, Allan Pinkerton ranks 1,090 out of 5,755. Before him are Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Patrick White, Vidyapati, Joost van den Vondel, Radegund, and Henri Michaux. After him are Mimnermus, Jean Giraudoux, Jan Neruda, Andrei Bely, Thomas Chatterton, and Pierre Larousse.
1867 - 1928
HPI: 60.33
Rank: 1,084
1912 - 1990
HPI: 60.33
Rank: 1,085
1352 - 1448
HPI: 60.32
Rank: 1,086
1587 - 1679
HPI: 60.32
Rank: 1,087
518 - 587
HPI: 60.31
Rank: 1,088
1899 - 1984
HPI: 60.31
Rank: 1,089
1819 - 1884
HPI: 60.30
Rank: 1,090
670 BC - 600 BC
HPI: 60.29
Rank: 1,091
1882 - 1944
HPI: 60.28
Rank: 1,092
1834 - 1891
HPI: 60.28
Rank: 1,093
1880 - 1934
HPI: 60.25
Rank: 1,094
1752 - 1770
HPI: 60.24
Rank: 1,095
1817 - 1875
HPI: 60.23
Rank: 1,096
Among people born in 1819, Allan Pinkerton ranks 23. Before him are John Couch Adams, Franz von Suppé, George V of Hanover, Theodor Fontane, Louise Marie Thérèse of Artois, and Francis V, Duke of Modena. After him are Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia, Stanisław Moniuszko, Gottfried Keller, Elias Howe, Johan Jongkind, and Théodore Chassériau. Among people deceased in 1884, Allan Pinkerton ranks 12. Before him are Elias Lönnrot, Johann Gustav Droysen, Marie Bashkirtseff, Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, Jean-Baptiste Dumas, and Alfred Brehm. After him are Hans Makart, Karl Richard Lepsius, Hermann Kolbe, Charles Adolphe Wurtz, Paul Abadie, and Fanny Elssler.
1819 - 1892
HPI: 64.59
Rank: 17
1819 - 1895
HPI: 64.17
Rank: 18
1819 - 1878
HPI: 63.30
Rank: 19
1819 - 1898
HPI: 62.18
Rank: 20
1819 - 1864
HPI: 60.75
Rank: 21
1819 - 1875
HPI: 60.67
Rank: 22
1819 - 1884
HPI: 60.30
Rank: 23
1819 - 1876
HPI: 60.24
Rank: 24
1819 - 1872
HPI: 60.18
Rank: 25
1819 - 1890
HPI: 59.64
Rank: 26
1819 - 1867
HPI: 59.57
Rank: 27
1819 - 1891
HPI: 58.46
Rank: 28
1819 - 1856
HPI: 57.81
Rank: 29
1802 - 1884
HPI: 63.99
Rank: 6
1808 - 1884
HPI: 63.35
Rank: 7
1858 - 1884
HPI: 62.66
Rank: 8
1853 - 1884
HPI: 62.17
Rank: 9
1800 - 1884
HPI: 61.92
Rank: 10
1829 - 1884
HPI: 60.60
Rank: 11
1819 - 1884
HPI: 60.30
Rank: 12
1840 - 1884
HPI: 59.60
Rank: 13
1810 - 1884
HPI: 59.15
Rank: 14
1818 - 1884
HPI: 59.11
Rank: 15
1817 - 1884
HPI: 58.79
Rank: 16
1812 - 1884
HPI: 57.81
Rank: 17
1810 - 1884
HPI: 57.75
Rank: 18
Among people born in United Kingdom, Allan Pinkerton ranks 870 out of 7,765. Before him are Rosamunde Pilcher (1924), Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1884), Bernard Lee (1908), Gladwyn Jebb (1900), Patrick White (1912), and Graham Chapman (1941). After him are Andrew Lloyd Webber (1948), Ken Hensley (1945), Tom Wilkinson (1948), Terry Jones (1942), Tony Richardson (1928), and William Holman Hunt (1827).
1924 - 2019
HPI: 60.35
Rank: 864
1884 - 1954
HPI: 60.34
Rank: 865
1908 - 1981
HPI: 60.34
Rank: 866
1900 - 1996
HPI: 60.33
Rank: 867
1912 - 1990
HPI: 60.33
Rank: 868
1941 - 1989
HPI: 60.30
Rank: 869
1819 - 1884
HPI: 60.30
Rank: 870
1948 - Present
HPI: 60.29
Rank: 871
1945 - 2020
HPI: 60.28
Rank: 872
1948 - 2023
HPI: 60.28
Rank: 873
1942 - 2020
HPI: 60.28
Rank: 874
1928 - 1991
HPI: 60.27
Rank: 875
1827 - 1910
HPI: 60.27
Rank: 876
Among writers born in United Kingdom, Allan Pinkerton ranks 106. Before him are Jerome K. Jerome (1859), Edmund Spenser (1552), Robert Graves (1895), W. H. Auden (1907), Rosamunde Pilcher (1924), and Patrick White (1912). After him are Thomas Chatterton (1752), Elizabeth Gaskell (1810), Lobsang Rampa (1910), Dylan Thomas (1914), Arthur Hailey (1920), and Thomas De Quincey (1785).
1859 - 1927
HPI: 60.77
Rank: 100
1552 - 1599
HPI: 60.65
Rank: 101
1895 - 1985
HPI: 60.54
Rank: 102
1907 - 1973
HPI: 60.47
Rank: 103
1924 - 2019
HPI: 60.35
Rank: 104
1912 - 1990
HPI: 60.33
Rank: 105
1819 - 1884
HPI: 60.30
Rank: 106
1752 - 1770
HPI: 60.24
Rank: 107
1810 - 1865
HPI: 60.21
Rank: 108
1910 - 1981
HPI: 60.08
Rank: 109
1914 - 1953
HPI: 59.81
Rank: 110
1920 - 2004
HPI: 59.69
Rank: 111
1785 - 1859
HPI: 59.65
Rank: 112