1809 - 1849
Edgar Allan Poe (né Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, author, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism and Gothic fiction in the United States, and of American literature. Poe was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story, and is considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre, as well as a significant contributor to the emerging genre of science fiction. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edgar Allan Poe has received more than 24,580,073 page views. His biography is available in 135 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 132 in 2019). Edgar Allan Poe is the 9th most popular writer (up from 12th in 2019), the 5th most popular biography from United States (up from 6th in 2019) and the most popular American Writer.
Edgar Allan Poe is most famous for his poem "The Raven" and for writing horror stories.
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Among writers, Edgar Allan Poe ranks 9 out of 5,755. Before him are Dante Alighieri, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Fyodor Dostoevsky, J. R. R. Tolkien, Hans Christian Andersen, and Voltaire. After him are Sophocles, Leo Tolstoy, Franz Kafka, Victor Hugo, Virgil, and Aesop.
1265 - 1321
HPI: 90.51
Rank: 3
1749 - 1832
HPI: 88.78
Rank: 4
1821 - 1881
HPI: 88.66
Rank: 5
1892 - 1973
HPI: 88.02
Rank: 6
1805 - 1875
HPI: 87.84
Rank: 7
1694 - 1778
HPI: 87.55
Rank: 8
1809 - 1849
HPI: 86.74
Rank: 9
497 BC - 406 BC
HPI: 86.65
Rank: 10
1828 - 1910
HPI: 86.31
Rank: 11
1883 - 1924
HPI: 86.23
Rank: 12
1802 - 1885
HPI: 86.03
Rank: 13
70 BC - 19 BC
HPI: 85.91
Rank: 14
620 BC - 564 BC
HPI: 85.15
Rank: 15
Among people born in 1809, Edgar Allan Poe ranks 2. Before him is Charles Darwin. After him are Abraham Lincoln, Felix Mendelssohn, Louis Braille, Nikolai Gogol, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Georges-Eugène Haussmann, Bruno Bauer, Albert Pike, William Ewart Gladstone, and Joseph Liouville. Among people deceased in 1849, Edgar Allan Poe ranks 2. Before him is Frédéric Chopin. After him are James K. Polk, Hokusai, Johann Strauss I, Muhammad Ali of Egypt, William II of the Netherlands, Anne Brontë, Charles Albert of Sardinia, Sándor Petőfi, Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner, and Heonjong of Joseon.
1809 - 1882
HPI: 90.67
Rank: 1
1809 - 1849
HPI: 86.74
Rank: 2
1809 - 1865
HPI: 85.22
Rank: 3
1809 - 1847
HPI: 79.90
Rank: 4
1809 - 1852
HPI: 78.84
Rank: 5
1809 - 1852
HPI: 77.86
Rank: 6
1809 - 1865
HPI: 74.09
Rank: 7
1809 - 1891
HPI: 70.17
Rank: 8
1809 - 1882
HPI: 64.51
Rank: 9
1809 - 1891
HPI: 62.56
Rank: 10
1809 - 1898
HPI: 62.39
Rank: 11
1809 - 1882
HPI: 62.08
Rank: 12
1810 - 1849
HPI: 88.83
Rank: 1
1809 - 1849
HPI: 86.74
Rank: 2
1795 - 1849
HPI: 83.04
Rank: 3
1760 - 1849
HPI: 80.12
Rank: 4
1804 - 1849
HPI: 76.60
Rank: 5
1769 - 1849
HPI: 75.47
Rank: 6
1792 - 1849
HPI: 68.80
Rank: 7
1820 - 1849
HPI: 68.60
Rank: 8
1798 - 1849
HPI: 66.25
Rank: 9
1823 - 1849
HPI: 65.43
Rank: 10
1780 - 1849
HPI: 65.40
Rank: 11
1827 - 1849
HPI: 65.38
Rank: 12
Among people born in United States, Edgar Allan Poe ranks 5 out of 18,182. Before him are Thomas Edison (1847), Thomas Jefferson (1743), Muhammad Ali (1942), and Jimmy Carter (1924). After him are Steve Jobs (1955), Abraham Lincoln (1809), Marilyn Monroe (1926), Neil Armstrong (1930), Sylvester Stallone (1946), Grace Kelly (1929), and Ulysses S. Grant (1822).
1847 - 1931
HPI: 90.99
Rank: 1
1743 - 1826
HPI: 89.78
Rank: 2
1942 - 2016
HPI: 89.51
Rank: 3
1924 - Present
HPI: 87.46
Rank: 4
1809 - 1849
HPI: 86.74
Rank: 5
1955 - 2011
HPI: 85.63
Rank: 6
1809 - 1865
HPI: 85.22
Rank: 7
1926 - 1962
HPI: 85.04
Rank: 8
1930 - 2012
HPI: 84.89
Rank: 9
1946 - Present
HPI: 84.86
Rank: 10
1929 - 1982
HPI: 84.60
Rank: 11
1822 - 1885
HPI: 84.29
Rank: 12
Among writers born in United States, Edgar Allan Poe ranks 1. After him are Ernest Hemingway (1899), Mark Twain (1835), F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896), Jack London (1876), Robert Frost (1874), Toni Morrison (1931), Stephen King (1947), Henry David Thoreau (1817), H. P. Lovecraft (1890), Dr. Seuss (1904), and William Faulkner (1897).
1809 - 1849
HPI: 86.74
Rank: 1
1899 - 1961
HPI: 82.72
Rank: 2
1835 - 1910
HPI: 80.98
Rank: 3
1896 - 1940
HPI: 80.19
Rank: 4
1876 - 1916
HPI: 78.94
Rank: 5
1874 - 1963
HPI: 78.15
Rank: 6
1931 - 2019
HPI: 78.04
Rank: 7
1947 - Present
HPI: 77.76
Rank: 8
1817 - 1862
HPI: 75.77
Rank: 9
1890 - 1937
HPI: 75.57
Rank: 10
1904 - 1991
HPI: 73.86
Rank: 11
1897 - 1962
HPI: 73.85
Rank: 12