1856 - 1950
George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence simply 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 7,376,774 page views. His biography is available in 114 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 113 in 2019). George Bernard Shaw is the 94th most popular writer (down from 88th in 2019), the 5th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 4th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Irish Writer.
George Bernard Shaw is most famous for his plays, which include "Pygmalion" and "Saint Joan."
Page Views (PV)
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
Languages Editions (L)
Effective Languages (L*)
Coefficient of Variation (CV)
Among writers, George Bernard Shaw ranks 94 out of 5,755. Before him are Virginia Woolf, Maxim Gorky, Maurice Maeterlinck, Lewis Carroll, Jean de La Fontaine, and Knut Hamsun. After him are George Sand, Rainer Maria Rilke, Ismail I, José Saramago, Theodor Herzl, and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
1882 - 1941
HPI: 77.56
Rank: 88
1868 - 1936
HPI: 77.55
Rank: 89
1862 - 1949
HPI: 77.38
Rank: 90
1832 - 1898
HPI: 77.31
Rank: 91
1621 - 1695
HPI: 77.25
Rank: 92
1859 - 1952
HPI: 77.13
Rank: 93
1856 - 1950
HPI: 77.10
Rank: 94
1804 - 1876
HPI: 76.79
Rank: 95
1875 - 1926
HPI: 76.78
Rank: 96
1487 - 1524
HPI: 76.76
Rank: 97
1922 - 2010
HPI: 76.73
Rank: 98
1860 - 1904
HPI: 76.72
Rank: 99
1918 - 2008
HPI: 76.67
Rank: 100
Among people born in 1856, George Bernard Shaw ranks 3. Before him are Nikola Tesla and Sigmund Freud. After him are Woodrow Wilson, Philippe Pétain, J. J. Thomson, Frederick Winslow Taylor, Louis Sullivan, Archduchess Gisela of Austria, Robert Peary, Napoléon, Prince Imperial, and Emil Kraepelin. Among people deceased in 1950, George Bernard Shaw ranks 2. Before him is George Orwell. After him are Joseph Schumpeter, Gustaf V of Sweden, Vaslav Nijinsky, Johannes V. Jensen, Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, Albert Lebrun, Léon Blum, Marcel Mauss, Willis Carrier, and Vallabhbhai Patel.
1856 - 1943
HPI: 90.69
Rank: 1
1856 - 1939
HPI: 89.62
Rank: 2
1856 - 1950
HPI: 77.10
Rank: 3
1856 - 1924
HPI: 77.07
Rank: 4
1856 - 1951
HPI: 76.59
Rank: 5
1856 - 1940
HPI: 73.01
Rank: 6
1856 - 1915
HPI: 72.61
Rank: 7
1856 - 1924
HPI: 72.44
Rank: 8
1856 - 1932
HPI: 71.75
Rank: 9
1856 - 1920
HPI: 69.94
Rank: 10
1856 - 1879
HPI: 68.49
Rank: 11
1856 - 1926
HPI: 68.47
Rank: 12
1903 - 1950
HPI: 81.47
Rank: 1
1856 - 1950
HPI: 77.10
Rank: 2
1883 - 1950
HPI: 72.88
Rank: 3
1858 - 1950
HPI: 72.06
Rank: 4
1889 - 1950
HPI: 70.73
Rank: 5
1873 - 1950
HPI: 68.83
Rank: 6
1870 - 1950
HPI: 67.96
Rank: 7
1871 - 1950
HPI: 67.51
Rank: 8
1872 - 1950
HPI: 67.47
Rank: 9
1872 - 1950
HPI: 67.29
Rank: 10
1876 - 1950
HPI: 67.26
Rank: 11
1875 - 1950
HPI: 66.81
Rank: 12
Among people born in Ireland, George Bernard Shaw ranks 5 out of 501. Before him are Oscar Wilde (1854), James Joyce (1882), Robert Boyle (1627), and Jonathan Swift (1667). After him are George Berkeley (1685), Samuel Beckett (1906), Michael Gambon (1940), Edmund Burke (1729), Pierce Brosnan (1953), Bram Stoker (1847), and Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769).
1854 - 1900
HPI: 81.49
Rank: 1
1882 - 1941
HPI: 78.80
Rank: 2
1627 - 1691
HPI: 78.11
Rank: 3
1667 - 1745
HPI: 77.74
Rank: 4
1856 - 1950
HPI: 77.10
Rank: 5
1685 - 1753
HPI: 76.98
Rank: 6
1906 - 1989
HPI: 76.10
Rank: 7
1940 - Present
HPI: 71.82
Rank: 8
1729 - 1797
HPI: 71.81
Rank: 9
1953 - Present
HPI: 71.81
Rank: 10
1847 - 1912
HPI: 71.15
Rank: 11
1769 - 1852
HPI: 70.65
Rank: 12
Among writers born in Ireland, George Bernard Shaw ranks 4. Before him are Oscar Wilde (1854), James Joyce (1882), and Jonathan Swift (1667). After him are Samuel Beckett (1906), Bram Stoker (1847), W. B. Yeats (1865), Laurence Sterne (1713), Joseph Murphy (1898), Saint Gall (550), Iris Murdoch (1919), and Ethel Voynich (1864).
1854 - 1900
HPI: 81.49
Rank: 1
1882 - 1941
HPI: 78.80
Rank: 2
1667 - 1745
HPI: 77.74
Rank: 3
1856 - 1950
HPI: 77.10
Rank: 4
1906 - 1989
HPI: 76.10
Rank: 5
1847 - 1912
HPI: 71.15
Rank: 6
1865 - 1939
HPI: 67.85
Rank: 7
1713 - 1768
HPI: 65.80
Rank: 8
1898 - 1981
HPI: 63.19
Rank: 9
550 - 645
HPI: 61.08
Rank: 10
1919 - 1999
HPI: 60.84
Rank: 11
1864 - 1960
HPI: 60.20
Rank: 12