1892 - 1973
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (, ROOL TOL-keen; 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 23,005,117 page views. His biography is available in 147 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 140 in 2019). J. R. R. Tolkien is the 6th most popular writer, 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 5,755. Before him are Homer, William Shakespeare, Dante Alighieri, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and Fyodor Dostoevsky. After him are Hans Christian Andersen, Voltaire, Edgar Allan Poe, Sophocles, Leo Tolstoy, and Franz Kafka.
800 BC - 750 BC
HPI: 91.42
Rank: 1
1564 - 1616
HPI: 90.88
Rank: 2
1265 - 1321
HPI: 90.51
Rank: 3
1749 - 1832
HPI: 88.78
Rank: 4
1821 - 1881
HPI: 88.66
Rank: 5
1892 - 1973
HPI: 88.02
Rank: 6
1805 - 1875
HPI: 87.84
Rank: 7
1694 - 1778
HPI: 87.55
Rank: 8
1809 - 1849
HPI: 86.74
Rank: 9
497 BC - 406 BC
HPI: 86.65
Rank: 10
1828 - 1910
HPI: 86.31
Rank: 11
1883 - 1924
HPI: 86.23
Rank: 12
Among people born in 1892, J. R. R. Tolkien ranks 1. After him are Josip Broz Tito, Francisco Franco, Haile Selassie, Walter Benjamin, Louis de Broglie, Manfred von Richthofen, Ivo Andrić, Zita of Bourbon-Parma, Pearl S. Buck, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, and Martin Niemöller. Among people deceased in 1973, J. R. R. Tolkien ranks 2. Before him is Pablo Picasso. After him are Bruce Lee, Pablo Neruda, Salvador Allende, David Ben-Gurion, Erich von Manstein, Lyndon B. Johnson, Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden, Fulgencio Batista, Pearl S. Buck, and Ivan Konev.
1892 - 1973
HPI: 88.02
Rank: 1
1892 - 1980
HPI: 83.57
Rank: 2
1892 - 1975
HPI: 82.22
Rank: 3
1892 - 1975
HPI: 75.97
Rank: 4
1892 - 1940
HPI: 74.25
Rank: 5
1892 - 1987
HPI: 74.19
Rank: 6
1892 - 1918
HPI: 74.13
Rank: 7
1892 - 1975
HPI: 74.03
Rank: 8
1892 - 1989
HPI: 72.44
Rank: 9
1892 - 1973
HPI: 72.13
Rank: 10
1892 - 1946
HPI: 71.98
Rank: 11
1892 - 1984
HPI: 70.18
Rank: 12
1881 - 1973
HPI: 89.14
Rank: 1
1892 - 1973
HPI: 88.02
Rank: 2
1940 - 1973
HPI: 83.04
Rank: 3
1904 - 1973
HPI: 78.19
Rank: 4
1908 - 1973
HPI: 78.04
Rank: 5
1886 - 1973
HPI: 77.49
Rank: 6
1887 - 1973
HPI: 77.23
Rank: 7
1908 - 1973
HPI: 74.75
Rank: 8
1882 - 1973
HPI: 73.92
Rank: 9
1901 - 1973
HPI: 73.15
Rank: 10
1892 - 1973
HPI: 72.13
Rank: 11
1897 - 1973
HPI: 71.18
Rank: 12
Among people born in South Africa, J. R. R. Tolkien ranks 2 out of 374. Before him are Nelson Mandela (1918). After him are Elon Musk (1971), Sarah Baartman (1788), Desmond Tutu (1931), J. M. Coetzee (1940), Shaka (1787), Christiaan Barnard (1922), F. W. de Klerk (1936), Nadine Gordimer (1923), Miriam Makeba (1932), and Charlize Theron (1975).
1918 - 2013
HPI: 88.40
Rank: 1
1892 - 1973
HPI: 88.02
Rank: 2
1971 - Present
HPI: 80.35
Rank: 3
1788 - 1815
HPI: 70.75
Rank: 4
1931 - 2021
HPI: 70.65
Rank: 5
1940 - Present
HPI: 69.57
Rank: 6
1787 - 1828
HPI: 69.03
Rank: 7
1922 - 2001
HPI: 68.13
Rank: 8
1936 - 2021
HPI: 67.53
Rank: 9
1923 - 2014
HPI: 66.39
Rank: 10
1932 - 2008
HPI: 66.28
Rank: 11
1975 - Present
HPI: 64.53
Rank: 12
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), Breyten Breytenbach (1939), Laurence Oliphant (1829), Ronald Harwood (1934), Laurens van der Post (1906), Deon Meyer (1958), Alan Paton (1903), and Ingrid Jonker (1933).
1892 - 1973
HPI: 88.02
Rank: 1
1940 - Present
HPI: 69.57
Rank: 2
1923 - 2014
HPI: 66.39
Rank: 3
1919 - 2017
HPI: 57.66
Rank: 4
1935 - 2015
HPI: 56.20
Rank: 5
1939 - Present
HPI: 50.31
Rank: 6
1829 - 1888
HPI: 50.14
Rank: 7
1934 - 2020
HPI: 50.04
Rank: 8
1906 - 1996
HPI: 49.53
Rank: 9
1958 - Present
HPI: 48.90
Rank: 10
1903 - 1988
HPI: 48.19
Rank: 11
1933 - 1965
HPI: 47.29
Rank: 12