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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 336,825 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). James Macpherson is the 3,511th most popular politician (down from 3,239th in 2019), the 779th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 748th in 2019) and the 137th 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.

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  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.13

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  • 2.95

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, James Macpherson ranks 3,511 out of 15,577. Before him are Al-Mutawakkil III, Emund the Old, Karim Khan Zand, Georges Ernest Boulanger, Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden, and Helenus. After him are Olaf III of Norway, Alfred Moisiu, Niceto Alcalá-Zamora, Karl Lueger, Miguel Díaz-Canel, and Emperor Huan of Han.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1736, James Macpherson ranks 7. Before him are James Watt, Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Jean Sylvain Bailly, Rama I, and Claude Nicolas Ledoux. After him are Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, Louis Joseph, Prince of Condé, Rudolf Erich Raspe, Princess Friederike of Brandenburg-Schwedt, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, and Friedrich Kasimir Medikus. Among people deceased in 1796, James Macpherson ranks 5. Before him are Catherine the Great, Robert Burns, Juliana Maria of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, and Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia. After him are Princess Augusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt, Shahrokh Shah, Johann Daniel Titius, Charles of Saxony, Duke of Courland, Thomas Reid, Pyotr Rumyantsev, and Adolph Freiherr Knigge.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, James Macpherson ranks 779 out of 7,765. Before him are Charles Laughton (1899), William Lassell (1799), Henry Fielding (1707), John of Salisbury (1110), Frederick Fleet (1887), and Richard Laurence Millington Synge (1914). After him are Thomas Tallis (1502), John Langdon Down (1828), Imelda Staunton (1956), John Gielgud (1904), Guy Ritchie (1968), and John William Polidori (1795).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, James Macpherson ranks 137. Before him are Robert III of Scotland (1330), Gordon Brown (1951), Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset (1519), Lady Margaret Beaufort (1443), Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond (1430), and John Balliol (1249). After him are Prince George, Duke of Kent (1902), Lady Mary Victoria Douglas-Hamilton (1850), David Cameron (1966), Rob Roy MacGregor (1671), Philip Noel-Baker (1889), and Denis Thatcher (1915).

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