1805 - 1875
Hans Christian Andersen ( AN-dər-sən, Danish: [ˈhænˀs ˈkʰʁestjæn ˈɑnɐsn̩] ; 2 April 1805 – 4 August 1875) was a Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, he is best remembered for his literary fairy tales. Andersen's fairy tales, consisting of 156 stories across nine volumes, have been translated into more than 125 languages. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hans Christian Andersen has received more than 7,787,761 page views. His biography is available in 169 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 167 in 2019). Hans Christian Andersen is the 7th most popular writer, the most popular biography from Denmark and the most popular Danish Writer.
Hans Christian Andersen is most famous for his fairy tales.
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Among writers, Hans Christian Andersen ranks 7 out of 5,755. Before him are Homer, William Shakespeare, Dante Alighieri, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and J. R. R. Tolkien. After him are Voltaire, Edgar Allan Poe, Sophocles, Leo Tolstoy, Franz Kafka, and Victor Hugo.
800 BC - 750 BC
HPI: 91.42
Rank: 1
1564 - 1616
HPI: 90.88
Rank: 2
1265 - 1321
HPI: 90.51
Rank: 3
1749 - 1832
HPI: 88.78
Rank: 4
1821 - 1881
HPI: 88.66
Rank: 5
1892 - 1973
HPI: 88.02
Rank: 6
1805 - 1875
HPI: 87.84
Rank: 7
1694 - 1778
HPI: 87.55
Rank: 8
1809 - 1849
HPI: 86.74
Rank: 9
497 BC - 406 BC
HPI: 86.65
Rank: 10
1828 - 1910
HPI: 86.31
Rank: 11
1883 - 1924
HPI: 86.23
Rank: 12
1802 - 1885
HPI: 86.03
Rank: 13
Among people born in 1805, Hans Christian Andersen ranks 1. After him are Alexis de Tocqueville, Giuseppe Mazzini, Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, Princess Sophie of Bavaria, Ferdinand de Lesseps, William Rowan Hamilton, Joseph Smith, Fanny Mendelssohn, Louis Auguste Blanqui, Maria Anna of Bavaria, and Franz Xaver Winterhalter. Among people deceased in 1875, Hans Christian Andersen ranks 1. After him are Georges Bizet, Ferdinand I of Austria, Jean-François Millet, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Andrew Johnson, Tongzhi Emperor, Charles Lyell, Isaac Singer, Éliphas Lévi, John Edward Gray, and Charles Wheatstone.
1805 - 1875
HPI: 87.84
Rank: 1
1805 - 1859
HPI: 74.03
Rank: 2
1805 - 1872
HPI: 73.12
Rank: 3
1805 - 1859
HPI: 72.67
Rank: 4
1805 - 1872
HPI: 72.01
Rank: 5
1805 - 1894
HPI: 70.39
Rank: 6
1805 - 1865
HPI: 69.57
Rank: 7
1805 - 1844
HPI: 67.97
Rank: 8
1805 - 1847
HPI: 65.93
Rank: 9
1805 - 1881
HPI: 65.25
Rank: 10
1805 - 1877
HPI: 63.91
Rank: 11
1805 - 1873
HPI: 63.72
Rank: 12
1805 - 1875
HPI: 87.84
Rank: 1
1838 - 1875
HPI: 79.01
Rank: 2
1793 - 1875
HPI: 77.62
Rank: 3
1814 - 1875
HPI: 75.13
Rank: 4
1796 - 1875
HPI: 72.71
Rank: 5
1808 - 1875
HPI: 69.68
Rank: 6
1856 - 1875
HPI: 67.58
Rank: 7
1797 - 1875
HPI: 66.60
Rank: 8
1811 - 1875
HPI: 66.16
Rank: 9
1810 - 1875
HPI: 65.71
Rank: 10
1800 - 1875
HPI: 63.48
Rank: 11
1802 - 1875
HPI: 62.04
Rank: 12
Among people born in Denmark, Hans Christian Andersen ranks 1 out of 893. After him are Hans Christian Ørsted (1777), Søren Kierkegaard (1813), Niels Bohr (1885), Margrethe II of Denmark (1940), Ivar the Boneless (900), Björn Ironside (800), Vitus Bering (1681), Ole Rømer (1644), Karl Adolph Gjellerup (1857), Cnut the Great (995), and Christian VII of Denmark (1749).
1805 - 1875
HPI: 87.84
Rank: 1
1777 - 1851
HPI: 81.20
Rank: 2
1813 - 1855
HPI: 81.07
Rank: 3
1885 - 1962
HPI: 80.71
Rank: 4
1940 - Present
HPI: 79.66
Rank: 5
900 - 873
HPI: 78.69
Rank: 6
800 - 876
HPI: 76.83
Rank: 7
1681 - 1741
HPI: 73.92
Rank: 8
1644 - 1710
HPI: 73.77
Rank: 9
1857 - 1919
HPI: 73.52
Rank: 10
995 - 1035
HPI: 73.29
Rank: 11
1749 - 1808
HPI: 73.22
Rank: 12
Among writers born in Denmark, Hans Christian Andersen ranks 1. After him are Karl Adolph Gjellerup (1857), Sigrid Undset (1882), Karen Blixen (1885), Henrik Pontoppidan (1857), Johannes V. Jensen (1873), Sven Hassel (1917), Jens Peter Jacobsen (1847), Georg Brandes (1842), N. F. S. Grundtvig (1783), Martin Andersen Nexø (1869), and Tove Ditlevsen (1917).
1805 - 1875
HPI: 87.84
Rank: 1
1857 - 1919
HPI: 73.52
Rank: 2
1882 - 1949
HPI: 72.92
Rank: 3
1885 - 1962
HPI: 72.64
Rank: 4
1857 - 1943
HPI: 70.82
Rank: 5
1873 - 1950
HPI: 68.83
Rank: 6
1917 - 2012
HPI: 64.23
Rank: 7
1847 - 1885
HPI: 63.01
Rank: 8
1842 - 1927
HPI: 61.85
Rank: 9
1783 - 1872
HPI: 60.67
Rank: 10
1869 - 1954
HPI: 60.19
Rank: 11
1917 - 1976
HPI: 59.68
Rank: 12