1876 - 1916
John Griffith Chaney (January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916), better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist and activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.London was part of the radical literary group "The Crowd" in San Francisco and a passionate advocate of animal rights, workers’ rights and socialism. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jack London has received more than 6,400,623 page views. His biography is available in 93 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 91 in 2019). Jack London is the 63rd most popular writer (up from 74th in 2019), the 53rd most popular biography from United States (up from 56th in 2019) and the 5th most popular American Writer.
Jack London is most famous for his novels, such as The Call of the Wild and White Fang.
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Among writers, Jack London ranks 63 out of 5,755. Before him are Bertolt Brecht, Stendhal, Umberto Eco, Gustave Flaubert, Thomas Mann, and Rabindranath Tagore. After him are Henrik Ibsen, Stefan Zweig, Arthur Rimbaud, Charles Perrault, James Joyce, and Romain Rolland.
1898 - 1956
HPI: 79.22
Rank: 57
1783 - 1842
HPI: 79.18
Rank: 58
1932 - 2016
HPI: 79.11
Rank: 59
1821 - 1880
HPI: 79.06
Rank: 60
1875 - 1955
HPI: 79.06
Rank: 61
1861 - 1941
HPI: 79.04
Rank: 62
1876 - 1916
HPI: 78.94
Rank: 63
1828 - 1906
HPI: 78.93
Rank: 64
1881 - 1942
HPI: 78.92
Rank: 65
1854 - 1891
HPI: 78.92
Rank: 66
1628 - 1703
HPI: 78.91
Rank: 67
1882 - 1941
HPI: 78.80
Rank: 68
1866 - 1944
HPI: 78.73
Rank: 69
Among people born in 1876, Jack London ranks 2. Before him is Pope Pius XII. After him are Konrad Adenauer, Mata Hari, Erich Raeder, Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, Wilhelm Pieck, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Zewditu, Constantin Brâncuși, Pablo Casals, and Manuel de Falla. Among people deceased in 1916, Jack London ranks 3. Before him are Franz Joseph I of Austria and Grigori Rasputin. After him are Ernst Mach, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Yuan Shikai, Umberto Boccioni, Élie Metchnikoff, Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Odilon Redon, Franz Marc, and William Ramsay.
1876 - 1958
HPI: 79.51
Rank: 1
1876 - 1916
HPI: 78.94
Rank: 2
1876 - 1967
HPI: 77.27
Rank: 3
1876 - 1917
HPI: 77.20
Rank: 4
1876 - 1960
HPI: 72.16
Rank: 5
1876 - 1956
HPI: 70.73
Rank: 6
1876 - 1960
HPI: 70.34
Rank: 7
1876 - 1944
HPI: 69.95
Rank: 8
1876 - 1930
HPI: 69.60
Rank: 9
1876 - 1957
HPI: 69.36
Rank: 10
1876 - 1973
HPI: 68.36
Rank: 11
1876 - 1946
HPI: 67.87
Rank: 12
1830 - 1916
HPI: 84.70
Rank: 1
1869 - 1916
HPI: 82.60
Rank: 2
1876 - 1916
HPI: 78.94
Rank: 3
1838 - 1916
HPI: 72.68
Rank: 4
1846 - 1916
HPI: 72.29
Rank: 5
1859 - 1916
HPI: 71.46
Rank: 6
1882 - 1916
HPI: 69.76
Rank: 7
1845 - 1916
HPI: 69.15
Rank: 8
1844 - 1916
HPI: 69.04
Rank: 9
1840 - 1916
HPI: 69.03
Rank: 10
1880 - 1916
HPI: 68.97
Rank: 11
1852 - 1916
HPI: 68.58
Rank: 12
Among people born in United States, Jack London ranks 53 out of 18,182. Before him are John Wilkes Booth (1838), Abraham Maslow (1908), Stanley Kubrick (1928), Richard Nixon (1913), Marlon Brando (1924), and Clint Eastwood (1930). After him are Charles Manson (1934), John Forbes Nash Jr. (1928), Louis Armstrong (1901), Maria Callas (1923), Martin Luther King Jr. (1929), and James Stewart (1908).
1838 - 1865
HPI: 79.24
Rank: 47
1908 - 1970
HPI: 79.14
Rank: 48
1928 - 1999
HPI: 79.07
Rank: 49
1913 - 1994
HPI: 79.02
Rank: 50
1924 - 2004
HPI: 79.01
Rank: 51
1930 - Present
HPI: 78.95
Rank: 52
1876 - 1916
HPI: 78.94
Rank: 53
1934 - 2017
HPI: 78.85
Rank: 54
1928 - 2015
HPI: 78.62
Rank: 55
1901 - 1971
HPI: 78.58
Rank: 56
1923 - 1977
HPI: 78.28
Rank: 57
1929 - 1968
HPI: 78.22
Rank: 58
1908 - 1997
HPI: 78.21
Rank: 59
Among writers born in United States, Jack London ranks 5. Before him are Edgar Allan Poe (1809), Ernest Hemingway (1899), Mark Twain (1835), and F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896). After him are Robert Frost (1874), Toni Morrison (1931), Stephen King (1947), Henry David Thoreau (1817), H. P. Lovecraft (1890), Dr. Seuss (1904), and William Faulkner (1897).
1809 - 1849
HPI: 86.74
Rank: 1
1899 - 1961
HPI: 82.72
Rank: 2
1835 - 1910
HPI: 80.98
Rank: 3
1896 - 1940
HPI: 80.19
Rank: 4
1876 - 1916
HPI: 78.94
Rank: 5
1874 - 1963
HPI: 78.15
Rank: 6
1931 - 2019
HPI: 78.04
Rank: 7
1947 - Present
HPI: 77.76
Rank: 8
1817 - 1862
HPI: 75.77
Rank: 9
1890 - 1937
HPI: 75.57
Rank: 10
1904 - 1991
HPI: 73.86
Rank: 11
1897 - 1962
HPI: 73.85
Rank: 12