1789 - 1851
James Fenimore Cooper (September 15, 1789 – September 14, 1851) was an American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances depicting frontier and Native American life from the 17th to the 19th centuries created a unique form of American literature. He lived much of his boyhood and the last fifteen years of life in Cooperstown, New York, which was founded by his father William Cooper on property that he owned. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Fenimore Cooper has received more than 1,197,698 page views. His biography is available in 58 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 57 in 2019). James Fenimore Cooper is the 339th most popular writer (up from 378th in 2019), the 309th most popular biography from United States (up from 321st in 2019) and the 32nd most popular American Writer.
James Fenimore Cooper is most famous for his book, The Last of the Mohicans.
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Among writers, James Fenimore Cooper ranks 339 out of 5,794. Before him are Aulus Cornelius Celsus, Lorenzo Valla, Erich von Däniken, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Constantine P. Cavafy, and Arthur Schnitzler. After him are Claude Simon, Jo Nesbø, Raymond Chandler, Graham Greene, Napoleon Hill, and Margaret Atwood.
25 BC - 50
HPI: 76.47
Rank: 333
1407 - 1457
HPI: 76.45
Rank: 334
1935 - Present
HPI: 76.44
Rank: 335
60 BC - 7 BC
HPI: 76.44
Rank: 336
1863 - 1933
HPI: 76.43
Rank: 337
1862 - 1931
HPI: 76.43
Rank: 338
1789 - 1851
HPI: 76.42
Rank: 339
1913 - 2005
HPI: 76.36
Rank: 340
1960 - Present
HPI: 76.34
Rank: 341
1888 - 1959
HPI: 76.34
Rank: 342
1904 - 1991
HPI: 76.33
Rank: 343
1883 - 1970
HPI: 76.33
Rank: 344
1939 - Present
HPI: 76.32
Rank: 345
Among people born in 1789, James Fenimore Cooper ranks 3. Before him are Georg Ohm and Augustin-Louis Cauchy. After him are Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt, Friedrich List, María Isabella of Spain, Horace Vernet, Johann Friedrich Overbeck, Stéphanie de Beauharnais, Heinrich Schwabe, Abbas Mirza, and Princess Charlotte of Denmark. Among people deceased in 1851, James Fenimore Cooper ranks 6. Before him are Hans Christian Ørsted, Mary Shelley, Louis Daguerre, J. M. W. Turner, and Marie Thérèse of France. After him are Karl Drais, Jean-de-Dieu Soult, Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, Princess Augusta of Bavaria, Manuel Godoy, and Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover.
1789 - 1854
HPI: 83.33
Rank: 1
1789 - 1857
HPI: 79.82
Rank: 2
1789 - 1851
HPI: 76.42
Rank: 3
1789 - 1848
HPI: 75.53
Rank: 4
1789 - 1846
HPI: 74.59
Rank: 5
1789 - 1848
HPI: 72.04
Rank: 6
1789 - 1863
HPI: 71.24
Rank: 7
1789 - 1869
HPI: 70.37
Rank: 8
1789 - 1860
HPI: 70.19
Rank: 9
1789 - 1875
HPI: 68.90
Rank: 10
1789 - 1833
HPI: 68.73
Rank: 11
1789 - 1864
HPI: 68.13
Rank: 12
1777 - 1851
HPI: 83.01
Rank: 1
1797 - 1851
HPI: 82.80
Rank: 2
1787 - 1851
HPI: 81.74
Rank: 3
1775 - 1851
HPI: 81.00
Rank: 4
1778 - 1851
HPI: 77.44
Rank: 5
1789 - 1851
HPI: 76.42
Rank: 6
1785 - 1851
HPI: 74.79
Rank: 7
1769 - 1851
HPI: 74.11
Rank: 8
1804 - 1851
HPI: 73.26
Rank: 9
1788 - 1851
HPI: 72.85
Rank: 10
1767 - 1851
HPI: 71.78
Rank: 11
1771 - 1851
HPI: 71.28
Rank: 12
Among people born in United States, James Fenimore Cooper ranks 309 out of 15,968. Before him are Ella Fitzgerald (1917), Sandra Bullock (1964), Eminem (1972), William Jennings Bryan (1860), Geraldine Chaplin (1944), and Roy Lichtenstein (1923). After him are Nick Nolte (1941), William Howard Taft (1857), Bruce Springsteen (1949), Kevin Costner (1955), Brian Wilson (1942), and Raymond Chandler (1888).
1917 - 1996
HPI: 76.47
Rank: 303
1964 - Present
HPI: 76.47
Rank: 304
1972 - Present
HPI: 76.47
Rank: 305
1860 - 1925
HPI: 76.46
Rank: 306
1944 - Present
HPI: 76.45
Rank: 307
1923 - 1997
HPI: 76.42
Rank: 308
1789 - 1851
HPI: 76.42
Rank: 309
1941 - Present
HPI: 76.38
Rank: 310
1857 - 1930
HPI: 76.38
Rank: 311
1949 - Present
HPI: 76.36
Rank: 312
1955 - Present
HPI: 76.35
Rank: 313
1942 - Present
HPI: 76.35
Rank: 314
1888 - 1959
HPI: 76.34
Rank: 315
Among writers born in United States, James Fenimore Cooper ranks 32. Before him are O. Henry (1862), Arthur Miller (1915), Jack Kerouac (1922), Ezra Pound (1885), Truman Capote (1924), and Margaret Mitchell (1900). After him are Raymond Chandler (1888), Napoleon Hill (1883), Henry James (1843), Dan Brown (1964), Paul Auster (1947), and Richard Bach (1936).
1862 - 1910
HPI: 77.19
Rank: 26
1915 - 2005
HPI: 77.18
Rank: 27
1922 - 1969
HPI: 77.07
Rank: 28
1885 - 1972
HPI: 76.79
Rank: 29
1924 - 1984
HPI: 76.50
Rank: 30
1900 - 1949
HPI: 76.47
Rank: 31
1789 - 1851
HPI: 76.42
Rank: 32
1888 - 1959
HPI: 76.34
Rank: 33
1883 - 1970
HPI: 76.33
Rank: 34
1843 - 1916
HPI: 76.31
Rank: 35
1964 - Present
HPI: 76.21
Rank: 36
1947 - Present
HPI: 75.98
Rank: 37
1936 - Present
HPI: 75.98
Rank: 38