Writer

Henrik Ibsen

Norwegian playwright and theatre director

1828 - 1906

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Henrik Ibsen

His biography is available in 114 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 112 in 2024). Henrik Ibsen is the 61st most popular writer (up from 81st in 2024), the 5th most popular biography from Norway (up from 6th in 2019) and the most popular Norwegian Writer.

Henrik Ibsen is most famous for his plays "A Doll's House" and "Hedda Gabler."

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HPI

Historical Popularity Index

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#1

Henrik Ibsen is the most memorable of the 8 notable people born in Skien, Norway, ahead of Hjalmar Johansen, Carl Størmer, and Nils Eriksen.

#1

Of the 91 Writers born in Norway, Henrik Ibsen ranks first.

114

Henrik Ibsen's biography appears in 114 language editions of Wikipedia — more than 99% of all Writers.

Mar 20

Henrik Ibsen shares a March 20 birthday with Ovid, Napoleon II, and Elagabalus.

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Among Writers

Among writers, Henrik Ibsen ranks 61 out of 7,302. Before him are Euripides, Li Bai, Octave Mirbeau, Astrid Lindgren, Oscar Wilde, and Mark Twain. After him are Stendhal, Ayn Rand, Aeschylus, Bertolt Brecht, Selma Lagerlöf, and Rabindranath Tagore.

Most Popular Writers in Wikipedia

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Euripides
480 BC - 406 BC
HPI: 84.12
Rank: 55
Li Bai
701 - 762
HPI: 84.11
Rank: 56
Octave Mirbeau
1848 - 1917
HPI: 84.08
Rank: 57
Astrid Lindgren
1907 - 2002
HPI: 83.96
Rank: 58
Oscar Wilde
1854 - 1900
HPI: 83.95
Rank: 59
Mark Twain
1835 - 1910
HPI: 83.94
Rank: 60
Henrik Ibsen
1828 - 1906
HPI: 83.92
Rank: 61
Stendhal
1783 - 1842
HPI: 83.83
Rank: 62
Ayn Rand
1905 - 1982
HPI: 83.74
Rank: 63
Aeschylus
525 BC - 456 BC
HPI: 83.66
Rank: 64
Bertolt Brecht
1898 - 1956
HPI: 83.64
Rank: 65
Selma Lagerlöf
1858 - 1940
HPI: 83.47
Rank: 66
Rabindranath Tagore
1861 - 1941
HPI: 83.47
Rank: 67

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1828, Henrik Ibsen ranks 3. Before him are Leo Tolstoy, and Jules Verne. After him are Henry Dunant, Rani of Jhansi, Randal Cremer, Saigō Takamori, Charbel Makhlouf, Hippolyte Taine, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Nikolay Chernyshevsky, and Albert Marth. Among people deceased in 1906, Henrik Ibsen ranks 3. Before him are Paul Cézanne, and Pierre Curie. After him are Christian IX of Denmark, Ludwig Boltzmann, Élie Ducommun, Archduke Otto of Austria, Raja Ravi Varma, Samuel Pierpont Langley, Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, Susan B. Anthony, and Georgy Gapon.

Others Born in 1828

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Leo Tolstoy
WRITER
1828 - 1910
HPI: 89.82
Rank: 1
Jules Verne
WRITER
1828 - 1905
HPI: 88.32
Rank: 2
Henrik Ibsen
WRITER
1828 - 1906
HPI: 83.92
Rank: 3
Henry Dunant
SOCIAL ACTIVIST
1828 - 1910
HPI: 83.32
Rank: 4
Rani of Jhansi
POLITICIAN
1828 - 1858
HPI: 78.29
Rank: 5
Randal Cremer
POLITICIAN
1828 - 1908
HPI: 76.27
Rank: 6
Saigō Takamori
MILITARY PERSONNEL
1828 - 1877
HPI: 74.71
Rank: 7
Charbel Makhlouf
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
1828 - 1898
HPI: 73.82
Rank: 8
Hippolyte Taine
HISTORIAN
1828 - 1893
HPI: 73.03
Rank: 9
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
WRITER
1828 - 1882
HPI: 72.74
Rank: 10
Nikolay Chernyshevsky
WRITER
1828 - 1889
HPI: 70.40
Rank: 11
Albert Marth
ASTRONOMER
1828 - 1897
HPI: 70.37
Rank: 12

Others Deceased in 1906

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Paul Cézanne
PAINTER
1839 - 1906
HPI: 85.32
Rank: 1
Pierre Curie
PHYSICIST
1859 - 1906
HPI: 84.35
Rank: 2
Henrik Ibsen
WRITER
1828 - 1906
HPI: 83.92
Rank: 3
Christian IX of Denmark
POLITICIAN
1818 - 1906
HPI: 83.50
Rank: 4
Ludwig Boltzmann
PHYSICIST
1844 - 1906
HPI: 77.57
Rank: 5
Élie Ducommun
SOCIAL ACTIVIST
1833 - 1906
HPI: 77.52
Rank: 6
Archduke Otto of Austria
POLITICIAN
1865 - 1906
HPI: 76.89
Rank: 7
Raja Ravi Varma
PAINTER
1848 - 1906
HPI: 75.10
Rank: 8
Samuel Pierpont Langley
INVENTOR
1834 - 1906
HPI: 72.40
Rank: 9
Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann
PHILOSOPHER
1842 - 1906
HPI: 71.31
Rank: 10
Susan B. Anthony
SOCIAL ACTIVIST
1820 - 1906
HPI: 68.58
Rank: 11
Georgy Gapon
SOCIAL ACTIVIST
1870 - 1906
HPI: 68.51
Rank: 12