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George Bernard Shaw

1856 - 1950

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George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman (1902), Pygmalion (1913) and Saint Joan (1923). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Bernard Shaw has received more than 9,363,742 page views. His biography is available in 117 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 114 in 2019). George Bernard Shaw is the 113th most popular writer (down from 94th in 2019), the 5th most popular biography from Ireland and the 4th most popular Irish Writer.

George Bernard Shaw is most famous for his plays, which include "Pygmalion" and "Saint Joan."

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  • 80.06

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  • 117

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  • 8.02

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.75

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, George Bernard Shaw ranks 113 out of 7,302. Before him are Stephen King, Maurice Maeterlinck, August Strindberg, Haruki Murakami, Apuleius, and Jean de La Fontaine. After him are E. T. A. Hoffmann, Sully Prudhomme, Federico García Lorca, Anatole France, Jean Cocteau, and Guy de Maupassant.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1856, George Bernard Shaw ranks 4. Before him are Nikola Tesla, Sigmund Freud, and Philippe Pétain. After him are Woodrow Wilson, J. J. Thomson, Louis Sullivan, Archduchess Gisela of Austria, Frederick Winslow Taylor, Napoléon, Prince Imperial, Robert Peary, and Emil Kraepelin. Among people deceased in 1950, George Bernard Shaw ranks 2. Before him is George Orwell. After him are Gustaf V of Sweden, Joseph Schumpeter, Johannes V. Jensen, Vaslav Nijinsky, Albert Lebrun, Heinrich Mann, Willis Carrier, Marcel Mauss, Norman Haworth, and Vallabhbhai Patel.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, George Bernard Shaw ranks 5 out of 549. Before him are Oscar Wilde (1854), Jonathan Swift (1667), James Joyce (1882), and Robert Boyle (1627). After him are George Berkeley (1685), Samuel Beckett (1906), Michael Gambon (1940), Francis Bacon (1909), Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769), Bram Stoker (1847), and Edmund Burke (1729).

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Among WRITERS In Ireland

Among writers born in Ireland, George Bernard Shaw ranks 4. Before him are Oscar Wilde (1854), Jonathan Swift (1667), and James Joyce (1882). After him are Samuel Beckett (1906), Bram Stoker (1847), W. B. Yeats (1865), Laurence Sterne (1713), Iris Murdoch (1919), Joseph Murphy (1898), Ethel Voynich (1864), and Saint Gall (550).

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