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J. R. R. Tolkien

1892 - 1973

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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (, 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer and philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. From 1925 to 1945, Tolkien was the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and a Fellow of Pembroke College, both at the University of Oxford. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of J. R. R. Tolkien has received more than 27,593,381 page views. His biography is available in 152 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 147 in 2019). J. R. R. Tolkien is the 7th most popular writer (down from 6th in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from South Africa and the most popular South African Writer.

J.R.R. Tolkien is most famous for writing the novel "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy.

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  • 28M

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  • 87.63

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 152

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 17.47

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.47

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, J. R. R. Tolkien ranks 7 out of 7,302. Before him are Homer, Dante Alighieri, William Shakespeare, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Edgar Allan Poe, and Fyodor Dostoevsky. After him are Lord Byron, Voltaire, Hans Christian Andersen, Leo Tolstoy, Victor Hugo, and Sophocles.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, J. R. R. Tolkien ranks 1. After him are Josip Broz Tito, Francisco Franco, Manfred von Richthofen, Ivo Andrić, Walter Benjamin, Zita of Bourbon-Parma, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Haile Selassie, Alexander Alekhine, Pearl S. Buck, and Ryūnosuke Akutagawa. Among people deceased in 1973, J. R. R. Tolkien ranks 2. Before him is Pablo Picasso. After him are Bruce Lee, David Ben-Gurion, Salvador Allende, Pablo Neruda, Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden, Erich von Manstein, Lyndon B. Johnson, Fulgencio Batista, Abebe Bikila, and Hans Kelsen.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, J. R. R. Tolkien ranks 2 out of 454. Before him are Nelson Mandela (1918). After him are Elon Musk (1971), Miriam Makeba (1932), Sarah Baartman (1788), J. M. Coetzee (1940), F. W. de Klerk (1936), Nadine Gordimer (1923), Shaka (1787), Desmond Tutu (1931), Christiaan Barnard (1922), and Cyril Ramaphosa (1952).

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Among WRITERS In South Africa

Among writers born in South Africa, J. R. R. Tolkien ranks 1. After him are J. M. Coetzee (1940), Nadine Gordimer (1923), Peter Abrahams (1919), André Brink (1935), Ronald Harwood (1934), Laurence Oliphant (1829), Laurens van der Post (1906), Breyten Breytenbach (1939), Deon Meyer (1958), Ingrid Jonker (1933), and Alan Paton (1903).

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