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WRITER

Branwell Brontë

1817 - 1848

Branwell Brontë

Patrick Branwell Brontë (, commonly ; 26 June 1817 – 24 September 1848) was an English painter and writer. He was the only son of the Brontë family, and brother of the writers Charlotte, Emily, and Anne. Brontë was rigorously tutored at home by his father, and earned praise for his poetry and translations from the classics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Branwell Brontë has received more than 1,248,478 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Branwell Brontë is the 3,113th most popular writer (up from 3,458th in 2019), the 2,315th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,564th in 2019) and the 270th most popular British Writer.

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1.2M
Page Views (PV)
51.30
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
23
Languages Editions (L)
3.04
Effective Languages (L*)
3.34
Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Branwell Brontë ranks 3,113 out of 5,755. Before him are Alain Chartier, Jean Richepin, Gaston Rébuffat, Theodor Kallifatides, Curt von Bardeleben, and Charles Kingsley. After him are Branko Radičević, Cecil Day-Lewis, Hitoshi Igarashi, Theodore Bibliander, László Polgár, and Zivia Lubetkin.

Most Popular Writers in Wikipedia

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Alain Chartier
1392 - 1430
HPI: 51.32
Rank: 3,107
Jean Richepin
1849 - 1926
HPI: 51.32
Rank: 3,108
Gaston Rébuffat
1921 - 1985
HPI: 51.31
Rank: 3,109
Theodor Kallifatides
1938 - Present
HPI: 51.31
Rank: 3,110
Curt von Bardeleben
1861 - 1924
HPI: 51.31
Rank: 3,111
Charles Kingsley
1819 - 1875
HPI: 51.30
Rank: 3,112
Branwell Brontë
1817 - 1848
HPI: 51.30
Rank: 3,113
Branko Radičević
1824 - 1853
HPI: 51.30
Rank: 3,114
Cecil Day-Lewis
1904 - 1972
HPI: 51.30
Rank: 3,115
Hitoshi Igarashi
1947 - 1991
HPI: 51.29
Rank: 3,116
Theodore Bibliander
1500 - 1564
HPI: 51.29
Rank: 3,117
László Polgár
1946 - Present
HPI: 51.29
Rank: 3,118
Zivia Lubetkin
1914 - 1978
HPI: 51.28
Rank: 3,119

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1817, Branwell Brontë ranks 45. Before him are George Frederic Watts, Nikoloz Baratashvili, Georg Herwegh, Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria-Este, Wilhelm Griesinger, and Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély. After him are Joseph Poelaert, Adolphe Alphand, Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher, Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard, Braxton Bragg, and Richard Dadd. Among people deceased in 1848, Branwell Brontë ranks 41. Before him are Manto Mavrogenous, Felix Lichnowsky, Jean-Baptiste Debret, Ludwig Leichhardt, Yevhen Hrebinka, and Takizawa Bakin. After him are Francis Crozier, Joseph Görres, Sarah Fuller Flower Adams, Petrobey Mavromichalis, Mastoureh Ardalan, and Jacob Sturm.

Others Born in 1817

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George Frederic Watts
1817 - 1904
HPI: 52.86
Rank: 39
Nikoloz Baratashvili
1817 - 1845
HPI: 52.65
Rank: 40
Georg Herwegh
1817 - 1875
HPI: 52.31
Rank: 41
Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria-Este
1817 - 1886
HPI: 51.78
Rank: 42
Wilhelm Griesinger
1817 - 1868
HPI: 51.72
Rank: 43
Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély
1817 - 1869
HPI: 51.68
Rank: 44
Branwell Brontë
1817 - 1848
HPI: 51.30
Rank: 45
Joseph Poelaert
1817 - 1879
HPI: 51.11
Rank: 46
Adolphe Alphand
1817 - 1891
HPI: 50.84
Rank: 47
Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher
1817 - 1894
HPI: 50.79
Rank: 48
Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard
1817 - 1894
HPI: 50.75
Rank: 49
Braxton Bragg
1817 - 1876
HPI: 50.68
Rank: 50
Richard Dadd
1817 - 1886
HPI: 50.47
Rank: 51