WRITER

Grant Allen

1848 - 1899

Photo of Grant Allen

Icon of person Grant Allen

Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen (February 24, 1848 – October 25, 1899) was a Canadian science writer and novelist, educated in England. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Grant Allen has received more than 115,044 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Grant Allen is the 5,184th most popular writer (down from 4,413th in 2019), the 397th most popular biography from Canada (down from 325th in 2019) and the 28th most popular Canadian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 120k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.95

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.09

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.97

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The Great Taboo
Accessible book
1890
What's bred in the bone
1850
Charles Darwin
Naturalists, Biography, Accessible book
1885
Falling in love
Science, Accessible book, Addresses, essays, lectures
1889
Hilda Wade
1899
The British Barbarians
Accessible book, society, taboo
1895

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Grant Allen ranks 5,184 out of 7,302. Before him are Alexander Odoevsky, Tony Duvert, Ruth Klüger, Enric Valor i Vives, Joseph Victor von Scheffel, and Ernie Pyle. After him are Bart D. Ehrman, Maurice Carême, Juan Meléndez Valdés, Antti Tuuri, Gabriel Miró, and Anna Haava.

Most Popular Writers in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1848, Grant Allen ranks 105. Before him are Josef Václav Myslbek, George Romanes, Jean Aicard, Helene Lange, Joel Chandler Harris, and Bernard Bosanquet. After him are Raimundo Fernández-Villaverde, Waldemar Rosenberger, Jørgen Løvland, Lewis Howard Latimer, Otto Bütschli, and James Whitbread Lee Glaisher. Among people deceased in 1899, Grant Allen ranks 74. Before him are Teuku Umar, Klaus Groth, Kaʻiulani, Horatio Alger, Karolina Světlá, and Gaëtan de Rochebouët. After him are Mary Elizabeth Barber, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Claus, Princess Marie of Baden, Karl Friedrich August Rammelsberg, Wendela Hebbe, and Monier Monier-Williams.

Others Born in 1848

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1899

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Grant Allen ranks 397 out of 1,622. Before him are Jacques Parizeau (1930), Shawn Levy (1968), Ted Cruz (1970), Shirley Douglas (1934), John Qualen (1899), and Owen Hargreaves (1981). After him are Alex Lifeson (1953), Alex Trebek (1940), Robert Joy (1951), Earl Thomson (1895), Billy Bishop (1894), and Sarah Chalke (1976).

Others born in Canada

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among WRITERS In Canada

Among writers born in Canada, Grant Allen ranks 28. Before him are Nancy Huston (1953), Steven Erikson (1959), Michel Tremblay (1942), Naomi Klein (1970), Wyndham Lewis (1882), and Harold Russell (1914). After him are Justine Musk (1972), Robertson Davies (1913), Guy Gavriel Kay (1954), Antonine Maillet (1929), Sven Delblanc (1931), and Mark Strand (1934).

Canadian born Writers

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous