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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 135,789 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). James Anderson is the 1,225th most popular writer (down from 1,207th in 2019), the 908th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 971st in 2019) and the 108th most popular British Writer.

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

Memorability Metrics

  • 140k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.29

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.74

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.22

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Centennial history of Arkansas Methodism
1935
Diabetes
1981
Finder's Keepers
2003
Wrestling World
Fiction
Rodney Nelson, an unassuming chemist, thinks he's just won the Wrestling World Magazine trivia contest and is about to claim his award. Instead, he is abducted by two hulking reverts who take him to Wrestling World the Planet, a place where wrestling is real and runs the economy. Here Rodney will become a referee, one of the most thankless jobs on the planet. Not content with his station as a ref, Rodney is given the opportunity to train as a wrestler in this crazy world with wrestlers like Extar the Shape Changer and Psycho the Cyclops. He falls in deeper when he meets Belair Belle, the most beautiful woman on six planets - also the women's champion. Rodney soon learns, though, that wrestling is a brutal business and the life expectancy of new recruits is painfully short.
2004
Ancient languages of the Hispanic peninsula
History
1988
The affair of the bloodstained egg cosy
1975

Among WRITERS

Among writers, James Anderson ranks 1,225 out of 7,302. Before him are Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Jan Długosz, Raymond Radiguet, Wilhelm Weitling, Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, and Sarah, Duchess of York. After him are Brian Tracy, Giovanni Verga, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, Harry Harrison, Juliusz Słowacki, and Maurus Servius Honoratus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1680, James Anderson ranks 6. Before him are Blackbeard, Catherine Opalińska, Benjamin Hornigold, Saliha Sultan, and Charles Vane. After him are Ferdinand Albert II, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Richard Cantillon, Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria, Bulleh Shah, Princess Luise Dorothea of Prussia, and Johann Baptist Zimmermann. Among people deceased in 1739, James Anderson ranks 6. Before him are Charles Frederick, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, Saliha Sultan, Benedetto Marcello, Charles François de Cisternay du Fay, and Marie Anne de Bourbon. After him are Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach, Ernest Louis, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, Reinhard Keiser, Cosmas Damian Asam, Dick Turpin, and George Lillo.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, James Anderson ranks 908 out of 8,785. Before him are Edward Burne-Jones (1833), Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury (1671), Danny Boyle (1956), Duncan I of Scotland (1001), Van Morrison (1945), and Sarah, Duchess of York (1959). After him are Freeman Dyson (1923), Adelard of Bath (1075), Anne Hyde (1637), Pat Hitchcock (1928), David I of Scotland (1084), and Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom (1868).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, James Anderson ranks 108. Before him are John William Polidori (1795), Bernard Cornwell (1944), Edmund Spenser (1552), Samuel Butler (1612), Elizabeth Gaskell (1810), and Sarah, Duchess of York (1959). After him are David Irving (1938), John Dryden (1631), Arthur Hailey (1920), Samuel Pepys (1633), Rosamunde Pilcher (1924), and Lobsang Rampa (1910).

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