WRITER

Demetrius Vikelas

1835 - 1908

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Demetrios Vikelas (also written as Demetrius Bikelas; Greek: Δημήτριος Βικέλας; 15 February 1835 – 20 July 1908) was a Greek businessman and writer; he was the co-founder and first president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), from 1894 to 1896. After a childhood spent in Greece and Istanbul, he found fortune in London, where he married. He then moved to Paris, on account of his wife. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Demetrius Vikelas has received more than 93,984 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia. Demetrius Vikelas is the 779th most popular writer (down from 595th in 2019), the 185th most popular biography from Greece (down from 159th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Greek Writer.

Demetrius Vikelas is most famous for being the founder of the International Olympic Committee.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Demetrius Vikelas ranks 779 out of 7,302. Before him are Arrigo Boito, William McMaster Murdoch, Valerius Maximus, Alexander Blok, Eleanor Marx, and V. S. Naipaul. After him are Sinclair Lewis, Georg Brandes, Raymond Carver, Tove Ditlevsen, Ibn al-Muqaffa', and Menippus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1835, Demetrius Vikelas ranks 19. Before him are Giosuè Carducci, William Stanley Jevons, Fukuzawa Yukichi, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Josef Stefan, and Eduard Strauss. After him are Nikolai Rubinstein, Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern, Sai Baba of Shirdi, Iwasaki Yatarō, Adolph Wagner, and Hijikata Toshizō. Among people deceased in 1908, Demetrius Vikelas ranks 11. Before him are Grover Cleveland, Edmondo De Amicis, Randal Cremer, Carlos I of Portugal, Pablo de Sarasate, and Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. After him are Joseph Maria Olbrich, Luís Filipe, Prince Royal of Portugal, Victorien Sardou, Machado de Assis, Butch Cassidy, and Radoje Domanović.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Demetrius Vikelas ranks 185 out of 1,024. Before him are Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark (1911), Athenagoras I of Constantinople (1886), Helen of Greece and Denmark (1896), Admetus (null), Aelia Eudocia (401), and Theophano (941). After him are Thrasybulus (-440), Karolos Papoulias (1929), Herodes Atticus (101), Leochares (-400), Nearchus (-356), and Theopompus (-400).

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Among WRITERS In Greece

Among writers born in Greece, Demetrius Vikelas ranks 22. Before him are Lysias (-445), Tyrtaeus (-700), Periander (-700), Agathias (536), Longus (110), and Aelia Eudocia (401). After him are Odysseas Elytis (1911), Bacchylides (-490), Philostratus (170), Lafcadio Hearn (1850), Aristarchus of Samothrace (-217), and Corinna (-501).

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