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J. R. R. Tolkien

British philologist and author, creator of classic fantasy works

1892 - 1973

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His biography is available in 156 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 152 in 2024). J. R. R. Tolkien is the 6th most popular writer (up from 7th in 2024), the most popular biography from South Africa (up from 2nd in 2019) 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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J. R. R. Tolkien ranks #6 of 7,707 Writers worldwide, placing them among the top 1% of the profession.

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J. R. R. Tolkien's biography appears in 156 language editions of Wikipedia, more than 99% of all Writers.

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Among Writers

Among writers, J. R. R. Tolkien ranks 6 out of 7,707. Before him are Homer, Fyodor Dostoevsky, William Shakespeare, Dante Alighieri, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. After him are Edgar Allan Poe, Hans Christian Andersen, Leo Tolstoy, Franz Kafka, Victor Hugo, and Voltaire.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, J. R. R. Tolkien ranks 1. After him are Haile Selassie, Josip Broz Tito, Francisco Franco, Edward Victor Appleton, Louis de Broglie, Mary Pickford, Ivo Andrić, Walter Benjamin, Zita of Bourbon-Parma, Pearl S. Buck, and Manfred von Richthofen. Among people deceased in 1973, J. R. R. Tolkien ranks 2. Before him is Pablo Picasso. After him are Bruce Lee, Pablo Neruda, David Ben-Gurion, Salvador Allende, Erich von Manstein, Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden, Lyndon B. Johnson, Pearl S. Buck, Fulgencio Batista, and W. H. Auden.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, J. R. R. Tolkien ranks 1 out of 709. After him are Nelson Mandela (1918), Elon Musk (1971), Allan MacLeod Cormack (1924), J. M. Coetzee (1940), Nadine Gordimer (1923), Sarah Baartman (1788), F. W. de Klerk (1936), Desmond Tutu (1931), Miriam Makeba (1932), Shaka (1787), and Christiaan Barnard (1922).

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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), Laurence Oliphant (1829), Breyten Breytenbach (1939), Ronald Harwood (1934), Laurens van der Post (1906), Athol Fugard (1932), Alan Paton (1903), and Deon Meyer (1958).

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