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James Anderson

1680 - 1739

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James Anderson (c. 1690/1691–1739) was a Scottish writer and minister born and educated in Aberdeen, Scotland. He was ordained a minister in the Church of Scotland in 1707 and moved to London, where he ministered to the Glass House Street congregation until 1710, to the Presbyterian church in Swallow Street until 1734, and at Lisle Street Chapel until his death. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Anderson has received more than 113,932 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). James Anderson is the 1,210th most popular writer (up from 1,215th in 2019), the 972nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 960th in 2019) and the 114th most popular British Writer.

James Anderson is most famous for being the first African American to play in the National Basketball Association.

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  • 110k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.41

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.86

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.15

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, James Anderson ranks 1,210 out of 5,755. Before him are Alexander Ostrovsky, Timaeus of Locri, Pierre de Marivaux, Achilles Tatius, Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, and Aristophanes of Byzantium. After him are Shi Nai'an, Aelius Aristides, Vivant Denon, Chernorizets Hrabar, Giovanni Papini, and Betty Friedan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1680, James Anderson ranks 7. Before him are Blackbeard, Catherine Opalińska, Benjamin Hornigold, Charles Vane, Richard Cantillon, and Ferdinand Albert II, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. After him are Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria, Saliha Sultan, Princess Luise Dorothea of Prussia, Ephraim Chambers, Emanuele d'Astorga, and Johann Baptist Zimmermann. Among people deceased in 1739, James Anderson ranks 4. Before him are Charles Frederick, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, Benedetto Marcello, and Marie Anne de Bourbon. After him are Charles François de Cisternay du Fay, Saliha Sultan, Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach, Ernest Louis, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, Reinhard Keiser, Cosmas Damian Asam, and Dick Turpin.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, James Anderson ranks 972 out of 7,765. Before him are Edward Kelley (1555), Harold Lowe (1882), John Dunstaple (1390), Slash (1965), Ian Curtis (1956), and Herbert C. Brown (1912). After him are Denholm Elliott (1922), Flinders Petrie (1853), Princess Hélène of Orléans (1871), Isabel Neville, Duchess of Clarence (1451), Clive Sinclair (1940), and Eadgyth (910).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, James Anderson ranks 114. Before him are Elizabeth Gaskell (1810), Lobsang Rampa (1910), Dylan Thomas (1914), Arthur Hailey (1920), Thomas De Quincey (1785), and John Berger (1926). After him are P. G. Wodehouse (1881), Winifred Wagner (1897), Samuel Butler (1612), Neil Gaiman (1960), John Dryden (1631), and Lord Alfred Douglas (1870).

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