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James Thomson

Scottish writer

1700 - 1748

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His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2024). James Thomson is the 1,089th most popular writer (up from 4,712th in 2024), the 1,007th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,401st in 2019) and the 111th most popular British Writer.

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Among Writers

Among writers, James Thomson ranks 1,089 out of 7,302. Before him are Yakub Kolas, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Karl-Maria Kertbeny, Harriet Jacobs, Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, and Ernst Barlach. After him are Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Alfred Kubin, Emil Ludwig, Lucrezia Tornabuoni, Mimnermus, and Marguerite Porete.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1700, James Thomson ranks 9. Before him are Charles Frederick, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, Baji Rao I, Nicolaus Zinzendorf, Sophie Magdalene of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, and Giovanni Battista Sammartini. After him are Johann Christoph Gottsched, Charlotte Aglaé d'Orléans, Ewald Georg von Kleist, Jean-Antoine Nollet, Clemens August of Bavaria, and Luigi Vanvitelli. Among people deceased in 1748, James Thomson ranks 4. Before him are Johann Bernoulli, Muhammad Shah, and Nizam-ul-Mulk, Asaf Jah I. After him are Countess Palatine Dorothea Sophie of Neuburg, Ewald Georg von Kleist, Johann Gottfried Walther, Johann Nepomuk Karl, Prince of Liechtenstein, Ernest Augustus I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Ebrahim Afshar, William Kent, and Abul Khair Khan.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, James Thomson ranks 1,007 out of NaN. Before him are Edward B. Titchener (1867), Julia Gillard (1961), Jony Ive (1967), Richard Wilson (1936), James Meade (1907), and Robert Hichens (1882). After him are Alfred Radcliffe-Brown (1881), Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk (1517), Peter Shilton (1949), Tony Buzan (1942), Reginald Lee (1870), and Beorhtric of Wessex (800).

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Among Writers In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, James Thomson ranks 111. Before him are Edmund Spenser (1552), James Hadley Chase (1906), John Dryden (1631), Robert Graves (1895), Brian O'Nolan (1911), and Leigh Hunt (1784). After him are Tony Buzan (1942), Oliver Sacks (1933), Len Deighton (1929), Diana Wynne Jones (1934), David Lodge (1935), and P. G. Wodehouse (1881).

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