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Hugh Lofting

1886 - 1947

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Hugh John Lofting (14 January 1886 – 26 September 1947) was an English American writer, trained as a civil engineer, who created the classic children's literature character Doctor Dolittle. The fictional physician to talking animals, based in an English village, first appeared in illustrated letters to his children which Lofting sent from British Army trenches in the First World War. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hugh Lofting has received more than 352,312 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Hugh Lofting is the 1,788th most popular writer (down from 1,210th in 2019), the 1,407th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 951st in 2019) and the 153rd most popular British Writer.

Hugh Lofting is most famous for his book series, The Story of Doctor Dolittle.

Memorability Metrics

  • 350k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.17

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.02

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.49

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Hugh Lofting ranks 1,788 out of 5,755. Before him are Elvira Madigan, Aphra Behn, Ion of Chios, Robert Silverberg, Anne Perry, and Telesilla. After him are John of Ephesus, William Caxton, Pavel Bermondt-Avalov, Jorge Manrique, Margarete Buber-Neumann, and I. L. Peretz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Hugh Lofting ranks 73. Before him are Henry King, Gyula Gömbös, Joe Masseria, Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg, Prince Sixtus of Bourbon-Parma, and Victor McLaglen. After him are Edward Weston, Walter H. Schottky, Yevgeni Preobrazhensky, Amédée Ozenfant, Henry H. Arnold, and Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière. Among people deceased in 1947, Hugh Lofting ranks 75. Before him are Charles Bally, Maxwell Perkins, Wolfgang Borchert, Paul P. Harris, Arthur Machen, and Władysław Raczkiewicz. After him are Grace Moore, Nicholas Murray Butler, Victor Goldschmidt, Osami Nagano, Bronisław Huberman, and Karol Świerczewski.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Hugh Lofting ranks 1,407 out of 7,765. Before him are Peter Mayhew (1944), William Sturgeon (1783), Stevie Young (1956), Aphra Behn (1640), Simon Stock (1164), and Anne Perry (1938). After him are Patrick Head (1946), William Caxton (1422), Andy Summers (1942), John Guillermin (1925), Lady Caroline Lamb (1785), and Roger Byrne (1929).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Hugh Lofting ranks 153. Before him are Malcolm Lowry (1909), Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837), Thomas Wyatt (1503), Peter Shaffer (1926), Aphra Behn (1640), and Anne Perry (1938). After him are William Caxton (1422), Lady Caroline Lamb (1785), Brian Aldiss (1925), Christopher Isherwood (1904), Lucinda Riley (1965), and Anthony Trollope (1815).

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