1819 - 1880
Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Anne or Marian), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrote seven novels: Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Romola (1862–1863), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Middlemarch (1871–1872) and Daniel Deronda (1876). As with Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy, she emerged from provincial England; most of her works are set there. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Eliot has received more than 5,025,336 page views. Her biography is available in 81 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 79 in 2019). George Eliot is the 420th most popular writer (up from 496th in 2019), the 325th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 375th in 2019) and the 36th most popular British Writer.
George Eliot is most famous for her novel, Middlemarch.
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Among writers, George Eliot ranks 420 out of 5,755. Before her are Alphonse de Lamartine, Julio Cortázar, Tibullus, Karl Barth, Joseph Brodsky, and Zecharia Sitchin. After her are Elena Ferrante, G. K. Chesterton, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Jami, Phaedrus, and Louis Aragon.
1790 - 1869
HPI: 67.69
Rank: 414
1914 - 1984
HPI: 67.66
Rank: 415
50 BC - 19 BC
HPI: 67.65
Rank: 416
1886 - 1968
HPI: 67.61
Rank: 417
1940 - 1996
HPI: 67.60
Rank: 418
1920 - 2010
HPI: 67.59
Rank: 419
1819 - 1880
HPI: 67.58
Rank: 420
1943 - Present
HPI: 67.57
Rank: 421
1874 - 1936
HPI: 67.56
Rank: 422
1828 - 1882
HPI: 67.54
Rank: 423
1414 - 1492
HPI: 67.53
Rank: 424
20 BC - 50
HPI: 67.50
Rank: 425
1897 - 1982
HPI: 67.47
Rank: 426
Among people born in 1819, George Eliot ranks 12. Before her are Léon Foucault, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet, Báb, and Hippolyte Fizeau. After her are Maria II of Portugal, John Ruskin, William T. G. Morton, Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, John Couch Adams, and Franz von Suppé. Among people deceased in 1880, George Eliot ranks 4. Before her are Gustave Flaubert, Jacques Offenbach, and Maria Alexandrovna. After her are Paul Broca, Henryk Wieniawski, Emperor Norton, William Lassell, Ned Kelly, Anselm Feuerbach, Michel Chasles, and Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein.
1819 - 1868
HPI: 73.53
Rank: 6
1819 - 1891
HPI: 72.37
Rank: 7
1819 - 1892
HPI: 71.08
Rank: 8
1819 - 1903
HPI: 69.48
Rank: 9
1819 - 1850
HPI: 68.09
Rank: 10
1819 - 1896
HPI: 67.80
Rank: 11
1819 - 1880
HPI: 67.58
Rank: 12
1819 - 1853
HPI: 67.17
Rank: 13
1819 - 1900
HPI: 66.93
Rank: 14
1819 - 1868
HPI: 65.22
Rank: 15
1819 - 1901
HPI: 64.80
Rank: 16
1819 - 1892
HPI: 64.59
Rank: 17
1819 - 1895
HPI: 64.17
Rank: 18
1821 - 1880
HPI: 79.06
Rank: 1
1819 - 1880
HPI: 77.67
Rank: 2
1824 - 1880
HPI: 68.63
Rank: 3
1819 - 1880
HPI: 67.58
Rank: 4
1824 - 1880
HPI: 65.72
Rank: 5
1835 - 1880
HPI: 65.20
Rank: 6
1818 - 1880
HPI: 62.94
Rank: 7
1799 - 1880
HPI: 61.29
Rank: 8
1855 - 1880
HPI: 60.73
Rank: 9
1829 - 1880
HPI: 59.12
Rank: 10
1793 - 1880
HPI: 57.74
Rank: 11
1829 - 1880
HPI: 56.90
Rank: 12
Among people born in United Kingdom, George Eliot ranks 325 out of 7,765. Before her are Anne Neville (1456), Frederick Soddy (1877), Syd Barrett (1946), Jacqueline Bisset (1944), Jon Lord (1941), and Æthelred I, King of Wessex (837). After her are G. K. Chesterton (1874), William Crookes (1832), Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828), Llywelyn ap Gruffudd (1220), Ian McShane (1942), and Rudolf Abel (1903).
1456 - 1485
HPI: 67.76
Rank: 319
1877 - 1956
HPI: 67.72
Rank: 320
1946 - 2006
HPI: 67.72
Rank: 321
1944 - Present
HPI: 67.69
Rank: 322
1941 - 2012
HPI: 67.69
Rank: 323
837 - 871
HPI: 67.60
Rank: 324
1819 - 1880
HPI: 67.58
Rank: 325
1874 - 1936
HPI: 67.56
Rank: 326
1832 - 1919
HPI: 67.56
Rank: 327
1828 - 1882
HPI: 67.54
Rank: 328
1220 - 1282
HPI: 67.54
Rank: 329
1942 - Present
HPI: 67.53
Rank: 330
1903 - 1971
HPI: 67.52
Rank: 331
Among writers born in United Kingdom, George Eliot ranks 36. Before her are Graham Greene (1904), John Keats (1795), Anne Brontë (1820), Cyrano de Bergerac (1619), William Wordsworth (1770), and Ken Follett (1949). After her are G. K. Chesterton (1874), Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828), Christopher Marlowe (1564), Enid Blyton (1897), Thomas Paine (1737), and John Galsworthy (1867).
1904 - 1991
HPI: 69.20
Rank: 30
1795 - 1821
HPI: 68.74
Rank: 31
1820 - 1849
HPI: 68.60
Rank: 32
1619 - 1655
HPI: 68.59
Rank: 33
1770 - 1850
HPI: 68.58
Rank: 34
1949 - Present
HPI: 68.44
Rank: 35
1819 - 1880
HPI: 67.58
Rank: 36
1874 - 1936
HPI: 67.56
Rank: 37
1828 - 1882
HPI: 67.54
Rank: 38
1564 - 1593
HPI: 67.38
Rank: 39
1897 - 1968
HPI: 67.36
Rank: 40
1737 - 1809
HPI: 67.18
Rank: 41
1867 - 1933
HPI: 67.16
Rank: 42