1890 - 1937
Howard Phillips Lovecraft (US: , UK: ; August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American writer of weird, science, fantasy, and horror fiction. He is best known for his creation of the Cthulhu Mythos. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Lovecraft spent most of his life in New England. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of H. P. Lovecraft has received more than 16,898,724 page views. His biography is available in 82 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 80 in 2019). H. P. Lovecraft is the 126th most popular writer (up from 147th in 2019), the 97th most popular biography from United States (up from 125th in 2019) and the 10th most popular American Writer.
H.P. Lovecraft is most famous for his horror fiction, with works such as "The Call of Cthulhu," "The Colour Out of Space," and "The Dunwich Horror."
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Among writers, H. P. Lovecraft ranks 126 out of 5,755. Before him are Henry David Thoreau, Paul Verlaine, Alexandre Dumas fils, Matsuo Bashō, Jean Cocteau, and Apuleius. After him are Robert Louis Stevenson, Haruki Murakami, Walter Scott, Guy de Maupassant, August Strindberg, and Carlo Collodi.
1817 - 1862
HPI: 75.77
Rank: 120
1844 - 1896
HPI: 75.77
Rank: 121
1824 - 1895
HPI: 75.75
Rank: 122
1644 - 1694
HPI: 75.69
Rank: 123
1889 - 1963
HPI: 75.68
Rank: 124
125 - 170
HPI: 75.60
Rank: 125
1890 - 1937
HPI: 75.57
Rank: 126
1850 - 1894
HPI: 75.37
Rank: 127
1949 - Present
HPI: 75.32
Rank: 128
1771 - 1832
HPI: 75.25
Rank: 129
1850 - 1893
HPI: 75.13
Rank: 130
1849 - 1912
HPI: 75.12
Rank: 131
1826 - 1890
HPI: 75.12
Rank: 132
Among people born in 1890, H. P. Lovecraft ranks 8. Before him are Charles de Gaulle, Ho Chi Minh, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Vyacheslav Molotov, Boris Pasternak, and Friedrich Paulus. After him are Egon Schiele, Karel Čapek, Alfred Jodl, Kurt Lewin, Fritz Lang, and Colonel Sanders. Among people deceased in 1937, H. P. Lovecraft ranks 8. Before him are Pierre de Coubertin, Guglielmo Marconi, Alfred Adler, John D. Rockefeller, Maurice Ravel, and Antonio Gramsci. After him are Amelia Earhart, George Gershwin, Erich Ludendorff, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Mikhail Tukhachevsky, and Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk.
1890 - 1970
HPI: 83.58
Rank: 2
1890 - 1969
HPI: 77.58
Rank: 3
1890 - 1969
HPI: 77.48
Rank: 4
1890 - 1986
HPI: 76.27
Rank: 5
1890 - 1960
HPI: 76.24
Rank: 6
1890 - 1957
HPI: 75.89
Rank: 7
1890 - 1937
HPI: 75.57
Rank: 8
1890 - 1918
HPI: 75.10
Rank: 9
1890 - 1938
HPI: 73.39
Rank: 10
1890 - 1946
HPI: 73.13
Rank: 11
1890 - 1947
HPI: 71.90
Rank: 12
1890 - 1976
HPI: 71.40
Rank: 13
1890 - 1980
HPI: 70.87
Rank: 14
1863 - 1937
HPI: 80.21
Rank: 2
1874 - 1937
HPI: 78.99
Rank: 3
1870 - 1937
HPI: 78.40
Rank: 4
1839 - 1937
HPI: 77.60
Rank: 5
1875 - 1937
HPI: 77.40
Rank: 6
1891 - 1937
HPI: 76.84
Rank: 7
1890 - 1937
HPI: 75.57
Rank: 8
1897 - 1937
HPI: 73.67
Rank: 9
1898 - 1937
HPI: 72.73
Rank: 10
1865 - 1937
HPI: 72.71
Rank: 11
1861 - 1937
HPI: 72.62
Rank: 12
1893 - 1937
HPI: 71.09
Rank: 13
1850 - 1937
HPI: 71.02
Rank: 14
Among people born in United States, H. P. Lovecraft ranks 97 out of 18,182. Before him are Harrison Ford (1942), Joan Baez (1941), Henry David Thoreau (1817), Ted Bundy (1946), Stan Lee (1922), and William James (1842). After him are Chuck Norris (1940), Meryl Streep (1949), Jim Morrison (1943), Richard Feynman (1918), Michael Douglas (1944), and Edwin Hubble (1889).
1942 - Present
HPI: 76.06
Rank: 91
1941 - Present
HPI: 76.05
Rank: 92
1817 - 1862
HPI: 75.77
Rank: 93
1946 - 1989
HPI: 75.74
Rank: 94
1922 - 2018
HPI: 75.72
Rank: 95
1842 - 1910
HPI: 75.72
Rank: 96
1890 - 1937
HPI: 75.57
Rank: 97
1940 - Present
HPI: 75.57
Rank: 98
1949 - Present
HPI: 75.54
Rank: 99
1943 - 1971
HPI: 75.49
Rank: 100
1918 - 1988
HPI: 75.46
Rank: 101
1944 - Present
HPI: 75.32
Rank: 102
1889 - 1953
HPI: 75.32
Rank: 103
Among writers born in United States, H. P. Lovecraft ranks 10. Before him are F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896), Jack London (1876), Robert Frost (1874), Toni Morrison (1931), Stephen King (1947), and Henry David Thoreau (1817). After him are Dr. Seuss (1904), William Faulkner (1897), Frank Herbert (1920), J. D. Salinger (1919), Dale Carnegie (1888), and John Steinbeck (1902).
1896 - 1940
HPI: 80.19
Rank: 4
1876 - 1916
HPI: 78.94
Rank: 5
1874 - 1963
HPI: 78.15
Rank: 6
1931 - 2019
HPI: 78.04
Rank: 7
1947 - Present
HPI: 77.76
Rank: 8
1817 - 1862
HPI: 75.77
Rank: 9
1890 - 1937
HPI: 75.57
Rank: 10
1904 - 1991
HPI: 73.86
Rank: 11
1897 - 1962
HPI: 73.85
Rank: 12
1920 - 1986
HPI: 73.46
Rank: 13
1919 - 2010
HPI: 73.35
Rank: 14
1888 - 1955
HPI: 73.13
Rank: 15
1902 - 1968
HPI: 72.88
Rank: 16