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Charles Mackay

1814 - 1889

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Charles Mackay (27 March 1814 – 24 December 1889) was a Scottish poet, journalist, author, anthologist, novelist, and songwriter, remembered mainly for his book Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Mackay has received more than 41,437 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Charles Mackay is the 5,856th most popular writer (down from 5,242nd in 2019), the 4,636th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,200th in 2019) and the 521st most popular British Writer.

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  • 41k

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  • 44.65

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.56

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.02

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Charles Mackay ranks 5,856 out of 7,302. Before him are Dolores Redondo, Granius Licinianus, Margaret Mazzantini, Arthur Symons, Xosé María Díaz Castro, and Daniel Goldhagen. After him are Eldridge Cleaver, José Amador de los Ríos, Tony Hillerman, Malcolm Bradbury, Joan D. Vinge, and André Chamson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1814, Charles Mackay ranks 71. Before him are Juan Rafael Mora Porras, Samuel J. Tilden, Ludwig Schläfli, Jānis Cimze, George-Étienne Cartier, and José Posada Herrera. After him are John C. Pemberton, Lorenzo Snow, Zsigmond Kemény, Franz von Dingelstedt, Cajetan von Felder, and Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts. Among people deceased in 1889, Charles Mackay ranks 79. Before him are Warren De la Rue, Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski, Dmitry Tolstoy, Lucy Webb Hayes, Francisco Antonino Vidal, and Priscilla Cooper Tyler. After him are Máximo Santos, Samuel Brannan, Churchill Babington, Daniel Harvey Hill, John Bright, and Simon Cameron.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Charles Mackay ranks 4,636 out of 8,785. Before him are Annie Kenney (1879), Jonathan Palmer (1956), Arthur Symons (1865), Nick Rhodes (1962), Isaac Hempstead Wright (1999), and Cosmo Gordon Lang (1864). After him are Tony Cascarino (1962), Eleanor Bron (1938), David Hewlett (1968), David Arnold (1962), Malcolm Bradbury (1932), and Trevor Goddard (1962).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Charles Mackay ranks 521. Before him are John Masefield (1878), Simon Sebag Montefiore (1965), Thomas Linacre (1460), Thomas Campbell (1777), John of Worcester (1100), and Arthur Symons (1865). After him are Malcolm Bradbury (1932), John Wain (1925), David Garnett (1892), Stephen Leacock (1869), Anthony Shaffer (1926), and Wilbert Awdry (1911).

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