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Bram Stoker

1847 - 1912

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Abraham Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912) was an Irish author who is best known for writing the 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula. During his lifetime, he was better known as the personal assistant of actor Sir Henry Irving and business manager of the West End's Lyceum Theatre, which Irving owned. In his early years, Stoker worked as a theatre critic for an Irish newspaper, and wrote stories as well as commentaries. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bram Stoker has received more than 5,137,195 page views. His biography is available in 78 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 77 in 2019). Bram Stoker is the 247th most popular writer (down from 214th in 2019), the 11th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 9th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Irish Writer.

Bram Stoker is most famous for writing Dracula, which is a horror novel about Count Dracula and his attempt to move from Transylvania to England so that he can find new blood and spread the undead curse.

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  • 78

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  • 6.74

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.77

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Bram Stoker ranks 247 out of 5,755. Before him are Nelly Sachs, Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, Jacob Grimm, Sallust, J. K. Rowling, and Germaine de Staël. After him are Christine de Pizan, Roald Dahl, Walt Whitman, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Lucy Maud Montgomery, and Eckhart Tolle.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1847, Bram Stoker ranks 4. Before him are Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, and Paul von Hindenburg. After him are Maria Feodorovna, Otto Wallach, Jesse James, Auguste Escoffier, Joseph Pulitzer, Duchess Sophie Charlotte in Bavaria, Georges Sorel, and Annie Besant. Among people deceased in 1912, Bram Stoker ranks 6. Before him are Emperor Meiji, Henri Poincaré, August Strindberg, Jules Massenet, and Edward Smith. After him are Frédéric Passy, Frederick VIII of Denmark, Karl May, Thomas Andrews, Robert Falcon Scott, and Joseph Lister.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Bram Stoker ranks 11 out of 501. Before him are George Bernard Shaw (1856), George Berkeley (1685), Samuel Beckett (1906), Michael Gambon (1940), Edmund Burke (1729), and Pierce Brosnan (1953). After him are Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769), William Rowan Hamilton (1805), Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (1819), Francis Bacon (1909), John Scotus Eriugena (810), and Richard Harris (1930).

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Among WRITERS In Ireland

Among writers born in Ireland, Bram Stoker ranks 6. Before him are Oscar Wilde (1854), James Joyce (1882), Jonathan Swift (1667), George Bernard Shaw (1856), and Samuel Beckett (1906). After him are W. B. Yeats (1865), Laurence Sterne (1713), Joseph Murphy (1898), Saint Gall (550), Iris Murdoch (1919), and Ethel Voynich (1864).

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