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H. G. Wells

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1866 - 1946

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His biography is available in 112 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 108 in 2024). H. G. Wells is the 34th most popular writer (up from 167th in 2024), the 40th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 111th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular British Writer.

H. G. Wells is most famous for his science fiction novels, which were published in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

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#3 / 795

H. G. Wells ranks #3 of 795 Writers born in United Kingdom, inside the top 1% of that cohort.

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H. G. Wells climbed 1,312 places in Pantheon's global HPI ranking, from #1,665 to #353.

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H. G. Wells's biography appears in 112 language editions of Wikipedia, more than 99% of all Writers.

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Among Writers

Among writers, H. G. Wells ranks 34 out of 7,707. Before him are Honoré de Balzac, Aesop, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Gabriel García Márquez, Giovanni Boccaccio, and Agatha Christie. After him are Khalil Gibran, Anne Frank, George Orwell, Charles Dickens, Matsuo Bashō, and Hermann Hesse.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1866, H. G. Wells ranks 1. After him are Wassily Kandinsky, Romain Rolland, Sun Yat-sen, Erik Satie, George Gurdjieff, Thomas Hunt Morgan, Alfred Werner, Charles Nicolle, Benedetto Croce, Jacinto Benavente, and Giovanni Agnelli. Among people deceased in 1946, H. G. Wells ranks 1. After him are Hermann Göring, John Maynard Keynes, Wilhelm Keitel, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Alfred Rosenberg, Alfred Jodl, Amon Göth, Ion Antonescu, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Gerhart Hauptmann, and Hans Frank.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, H. G. Wells ranks 40 out of 9,870. Before him are Anne Boleyn (1501), Queen Victoria (1819), Mary II of England (1662), Michael Faraday (1791), Edward V of England (1470), and Agatha Christie (1890). After him are Thomas Hobbes (1588), Edmond Halley (1656), Alexander Graham Bell (1847), Mary I of England (1516), Charles Dickens (1812), and Alan Turing (1912).

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Among Writers In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, H. G. Wells ranks 3. Before him are William Shakespeare (1564), and Agatha Christie (1890). After him are Charles Dickens (1812), Thomas Hardy (1840), Arthur Conan Doyle (1859), Lord Byron (1788), D. H. Lawrence (1885), Daniel Defoe (1660), Virginia Woolf (1882), Jane Austen (1775), and Lewis Carroll (1832).

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