1801 - 1876
Edward William Lane (17 September 1801 – 10 August 1876) was a British orientalist, translator and lexicographer. He is known for his Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians and the Arabic-English Lexicon, as well as his translations of One Thousand and One Nights and Selections from the Kur-án.During his lifetime, Lane also wrote a detailed account of Egypt and the country's ancient sites, but the book, titled Description of Egypt, was published posthumously. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edward William Lane has received more than 130,949 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Edward William Lane is the 4,463rd most popular writer (down from 3,831st in 2019), the 3,323rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,833rd in 2019) and the 380th most popular British Writer.
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Among writers, Edward William Lane ranks 4,463 out of 5,755. Before him are James Dashner, Alfredo Zitarrosa, Eliška Krásnohorská, Kedarnath Singh, Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, and Carmen de Burgos. After him are James Agee, Stijn Streuvels, Nikolai Tikhonov, George Chapman, Iakob Gogebashvili, and Hans Werner Richter.
1972 - Present
HPI: 47.17
Rank: 4,457
1936 - 1989
HPI: 47.17
Rank: 4,458
1847 - 1926
HPI: 47.17
Rank: 4,459
1934 - 2018
HPI: 47.17
Rank: 4,460
1940 - Present
HPI: 47.17
Rank: 4,461
1867 - 1932
HPI: 47.17
Rank: 4,462
1801 - 1876
HPI: 47.17
Rank: 4,463
1909 - 1955
HPI: 47.16
Rank: 4,464
1871 - 1969
HPI: 47.16
Rank: 4,465
1896 - 1979
HPI: 47.15
Rank: 4,466
1559 - 1634
HPI: 47.13
Rank: 4,467
1840 - 1912
HPI: 47.13
Rank: 4,468
1908 - 1993
HPI: 47.13
Rank: 4,469
Among people born in 1801, Edward William Lane ranks 67. Before him are Carl August von Steinheil, José Joaquín Pérez, Zecharias Frankel, František Škroup, Friedrich Frey-Herosé, and William Hallowes Miller. After him are Ludwig Bechstein, Maria Röhl, Albert Auguste Perdonnet, Georgios Koletis, Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, and Jules Pierre Rambur. Among people deceased in 1876, Edward William Lane ranks 51. Before him are Félicien David, Ludwig Traube, Johann Löwenthal, Eliza McCardle Johnson, Friedrich von Berchtold, and Joseph Böhm. After him are Adolph Tidemand, Gennady Nevelskoy, Theodor von Heuglin, and Johannes Rebmann.
1801 - 1870
HPI: 48.88
Rank: 61
1801 - 1889
HPI: 48.43
Rank: 62
1801 - 1875
HPI: 48.01
Rank: 63
1801 - 1862
HPI: 47.73
Rank: 64
1801 - 1873
HPI: 47.62
Rank: 65
1801 - 1880
HPI: 47.58
Rank: 66
1801 - 1876
HPI: 47.17
Rank: 67
1801 - 1860
HPI: 46.73
Rank: 68
1801 - 1875
HPI: 45.41
Rank: 69
1801 - 1867
HPI: 45.31
Rank: 70
1801 - Present
HPI: 45.22
Rank: 71
1801 - 1885
HPI: 43.63
Rank: 72
1801 - 1870
HPI: 43.20
Rank: 73
1810 - 1876
HPI: 48.08
Rank: 45
1818 - 1876
HPI: 48.06
Rank: 46
1810 - 1876
HPI: 47.81
Rank: 47
1810 - 1876
HPI: 47.76
Rank: 48
1781 - 1876
HPI: 47.76
Rank: 49
1795 - 1876
HPI: 47.51
Rank: 50
1801 - 1876
HPI: 47.17
Rank: 51
1814 - 1876
HPI: 46.97
Rank: 52
1813 - 1876
HPI: 46.03
Rank: 53
1824 - 1876
HPI: 45.80
Rank: 54
1820 - 1876
HPI: 45.72
Rank: 55
Among people born in United Kingdom, Edward William Lane ranks 3,323 out of 7,765. Before him are Jim Bellamy (1881), Sheena Easton (1959), Max Newman (1897), Dora Boothby (1881), Vic Buckingham (1915), and David Morrissey (1964). After him are Lance Macklin (1919), Andy Bown (1946), Philip Howard, 13th Earl of Arundel (1557), Lady Byron (1792), Geoffrey Burbidge (1925), and Allan Ramsay (1713).
1881 - 1969
HPI: 47.19
Rank: 3,317
1959 - Present
HPI: 47.19
Rank: 3,318
1897 - 1984
HPI: 47.18
Rank: 3,319
1881 - 1970
HPI: 47.17
Rank: 3,320
1915 - 1995
HPI: 47.17
Rank: 3,321
1964 - Present
HPI: 47.17
Rank: 3,322
1801 - 1876
HPI: 47.17
Rank: 3,323
1919 - 2002
HPI: 47.17
Rank: 3,324
1946 - Present
HPI: 47.16
Rank: 3,325
1557 - 1595
HPI: 47.15
Rank: 3,326
1792 - 1860
HPI: 47.14
Rank: 3,327
1925 - 2010
HPI: 47.14
Rank: 3,328
1713 - 1784
HPI: 47.14
Rank: 3,329
Among writers born in United Kingdom, Edward William Lane ranks 380. Before him are Jackie Collins (1937), Joan Aiken (1924), A. E. Housman (1859), Richard Hoggart (1918), Sax Rohmer (1883), and Christopher Priest (1943). After him are George Chapman (1559), Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835), John Farey Sr. (1766), Grace Aguilar (1816), Donald Rayfield (1942), and W. W. Jacobs (1863).
1937 - 2015
HPI: 47.36
Rank: 374
1924 - 2004
HPI: 47.33
Rank: 375
1859 - 1936
HPI: 47.31
Rank: 376
1918 - 2014
HPI: 47.30
Rank: 377
1883 - 1959
HPI: 47.28
Rank: 378
1943 - 2024
HPI: 47.21
Rank: 379
1801 - 1876
HPI: 47.17
Rank: 380
1559 - 1634
HPI: 47.13
Rank: 381
1835 - 1915
HPI: 47.05
Rank: 382
1766 - 1826
HPI: 47.02
Rank: 383
1816 - 1847
HPI: 47.01
Rank: 384
1942 - Present
HPI: 47.00
Rank: 385
1863 - 1943
HPI: 46.98
Rank: 386