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James Macpherson

1736 - 1796

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James Macpherson (Gaelic: Seumas MacMhuirich or Seumas Mac a' Phearsain; 27 October 1736 – 17 February 1796) was a Scottish writer, poet, literary collector, and politician. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Macpherson has received more than 356,519 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). James Macpherson is the 3,349th most popular politician (up from 3,501st in 2019), the 714th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 779th in 2019) and the 124th most popular British Politician.

James Macpherson is most famous for his Ossian poems. These poems were written in 1760 and 1761, but they were falsely claimed to be from the 3rd century.

Memorability Metrics

  • 360k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 62.29

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.32

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.88

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, James Macpherson ranks 3,349 out of 19,576. Before him are Kurt Zeitzler, Offa of Mercia, P. W. Botha, Chiyou, Mieszko II Lambert, and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. After him are Miran Shah, Gia Long, Richard III, Duke of Normandy, Shepseskare, Natalya Naryshkina, and Yolande of Aragon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1736, James Macpherson ranks 6. Before him are James Watt, Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Rama I, and Jean Sylvain Bailly. After him are Claude Nicolas Ledoux, Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, Rudolf Erich Raspe, Louis Joseph, Prince of Condé, Princess Friederike of Brandenburg-Schwedt, and Franz Xaver Messerschmidt. Among people deceased in 1796, James Macpherson ranks 6. Before him are Catherine the Great, Robert Burns, Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia, Juliana Maria of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, and Princess Augusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt. After him are Adolph Freiherr Knigge, Johann Daniel Titius, Thomas Reid, Shahrokh Shah, Pyotr Rumyantsev, and Charles of Saxony, Duke of Courland.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, James Macpherson ranks 714 out of 8,785. Before him are Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550), Oliver Reed (1938), John Gurdon (1933), Offa of Mercia (800), John Franklin (1786), and John Cale (1942). After him are John Paul Jones (1946), George Darwin (1845), William Byrd (1543), Kenny Dalglish (1951), Emma, Lady Hamilton (1765), and Charles Vane (1680).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, James Macpherson ranks 124. Before him are Gladwyn Jebb (1900), James Francis Edward Stuart (1688), Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon (1930), George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham (1592), Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550), and Offa of Mercia (800). After him are H. H. Asquith (1852), Margaret of York (1446), Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury (1473), Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (1853), Clementine Churchill (1885), and Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset (1519).

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