1892 - 1973
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (, ROOL TOL-keen; 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and academic, best known as 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. He then moved within the same university, to become the Merton Professor of English Language and Literature and Fellow of Merton College, positions he held from 1945 until his retirement in 1959. Tolkien was a close friend of C. S. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of J. R. R. Tolkien has received more than 19,238,333 page views. His biography is available in 140 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 134 in 2019). J. R. R. Tolkien is the 6th most popular writer (up from 7th 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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Among writers, J. R. R. Tolkien ranks 6 out of 5,794. Before him are William Shakespeare, Dante Alighieri, Homer, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and Fyodor Dostoevsky. After him are Hans Christian Andersen, Voltaire, Franz Kafka, Leo Tolstoy, Victor Hugo, and Edgar Allan Poe.
1564 - 1616
HPI: 94.55
Rank: 1
1265 - 1321
HPI: 92.91
Rank: 2
800 BC - 750 BC
HPI: 92.32
Rank: 3
1749 - 1832
HPI: 91.73
Rank: 4
1821 - 1881
HPI: 91.42
Rank: 5
1892 - 1973
HPI: 91.11
Rank: 6
1805 - 1875
HPI: 90.93
Rank: 7
1694 - 1778
HPI: 90.89
Rank: 8
1883 - 1924
HPI: 90.26
Rank: 9
1828 - 1910
HPI: 90.13
Rank: 10
1802 - 1885
HPI: 89.96
Rank: 11
1809 - 1849
HPI: 89.63
Rank: 12
Among people born in 1892, J. R. R. Tolkien ranks 1. After him are Josip Broz Tito, Francisco Franco, Haile Selassie, Louis de Broglie, Walter Benjamin, Manfred von Richthofen, Ivo Andrić, Pearl S. Buck, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Zita of Bourbon-Parma, and Oliver Hardy. 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, Lyndon B. Johnson, Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden, Fulgencio Batista, Pearl S. Buck, and Henri Charrière.
1892 - 1973
HPI: 91.11
Rank: 1
1892 - 1980
HPI: 87.76
Rank: 2
1892 - 1975
HPI: 86.81
Rank: 3
1892 - 1975
HPI: 81.12
Rank: 4
1892 - 1987
HPI: 81.04
Rank: 5
1892 - 1940
HPI: 80.97
Rank: 6
1892 - 1918
HPI: 80.42
Rank: 7
1892 - 1975
HPI: 80.14
Rank: 8
1892 - 1973
HPI: 79.07
Rank: 9
1892 - 1946
HPI: 78.44
Rank: 10
1892 - 1989
HPI: 78.24
Rank: 11
1892 - 1957
HPI: 77.21
Rank: 12
1881 - 1973
HPI: 92.24
Rank: 1
1892 - 1973
HPI: 91.11
Rank: 2
1940 - 1973
HPI: 86.73
Rank: 3
1904 - 1973
HPI: 84.05
Rank: 4
1886 - 1973
HPI: 83.25
Rank: 5
1908 - 1973
HPI: 82.65
Rank: 6
1887 - 1973
HPI: 82.42
Rank: 7
1908 - 1973
HPI: 81.33
Rank: 8
1882 - 1973
HPI: 80.61
Rank: 9
1901 - 1973
HPI: 79.27
Rank: 10
1892 - 1973
HPI: 79.07
Rank: 11
1906 - 1973
HPI: 78.95
Rank: 12
Among people born in South Africa, J. R. R. Tolkien ranks 2 out of 312. Before him are Nelson Mandela (1918). After him are J. M. Coetzee (1940), Sarah Baartman (1788), Shaka (1787), Nadine Gordimer (1923), Behati Prinsloo (1988), Elon Musk (1971), F. W. de Klerk (1936), Christiaan Barnard (1922), Desmond Tutu (1931), and Miriam Makeba (1932).
1918 - 2013
HPI: 91.88
Rank: 1
1892 - 1973
HPI: 91.11
Rank: 2
1940 - Present
HPI: 76.83
Rank: 3
1788 - 1815
HPI: 76.50
Rank: 4
1787 - 1828
HPI: 76.31
Rank: 5
1923 - 2014
HPI: 76.19
Rank: 6
1988 - Present
HPI: 75.68
Rank: 7
1971 - Present
HPI: 75.67
Rank: 8
1936 - Present
HPI: 75.67
Rank: 9
1922 - 2001
HPI: 75.04
Rank: 10
1931 - Present
HPI: 74.15
Rank: 11
1932 - 2008
HPI: 73.90
Rank: 12
Among writers born in South Africa, J. R. R. Tolkien ranks 1. After him are J. M. Coetzee (1940), Nadine Gordimer (1923), André Brink (1935), Peter Abrahams (1919), Elsa Joubert (1922), Ronald Harwood (1934), Laurens van der Post (1906), Breyten Breytenbach (1939), Alan Paton (1903), Ingrid Jonker (1933), and Deon Meyer (1958).
1892 - 1973
HPI: 91.11
Rank: 1
1940 - Present
HPI: 76.83
Rank: 2
1923 - 2014
HPI: 76.19
Rank: 3
1935 - 2015
HPI: 67.07
Rank: 4
1919 - 2017
HPI: 66.55
Rank: 5
1922 - 2020
HPI: 63.26
Rank: 6
1934 - 2020
HPI: 61.77
Rank: 7
1906 - 1996
HPI: 61.58
Rank: 8
1939 - Present
HPI: 60.72
Rank: 9
1903 - 1988
HPI: 59.98
Rank: 10
1933 - 1965
HPI: 59.57
Rank: 11
1958 - Present
HPI: 59.40
Rank: 12