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John Bunyan

1628 - 1688

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John Bunyan (; 1628 – 31 August 1688) was an English writer and Puritan preacher. He is best remembered as the author of the Christian allegory The Pilgrim's Progress, which also became an influential literary model. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Bunyan has received more than 1,869,552 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). John Bunyan is the 832nd most popular writer (down from 618th in 2019), the 634th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 490th in 2019) and the 75th most popular British Writer.

John Bunyan is most famous for writing The Pilgrim's Progress.

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  • 54

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.41

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.83

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, John Bunyan ranks 832 out of 7,302. Before him are Italo Svevo, Harry Mulisch, Laura de Noves, Venantius Fortunatus, Franz Grillparzer, and Zhang Sanfeng. After him are Gerard of Cremona, Bacchylides, Adunis, Dubravka Ugrešić, Thietmar of Merseburg, and Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1628, John Bunyan ranks 4. Before him are Charles Perrault, Marcello Malpighi, and Jacob van Ruisdael. After him are Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Ferdinand Charles, Archduke of Austria, Muazzez Sultan, François Girardon, François-Henri de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg, Emmanuel Philibert, Prince of Carignano, Tokugawa Mitsukuni, and Lucrezia Barberini. Among people deceased in 1688, John Bunyan ranks 4. Before him are Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, Henry Morgan, and Ferdinand Verbiest. After him are Claude Perrault, Joachim von Sandrart, Narai, Philippe Quinault, François Bernier, Constantine Phaulkon, Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange, and Maximilian Henry of Bavaria.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Bunyan ranks 634 out of 8,785. Before him are Alfonso de Portago (1928), Charles Laughton (1899), Willibrord (658), William Shockley (1910), Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (1850), and Alice Liddell (1852). After him are Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild (1868), Julian Barnes (1946), Kenneth MacAlpin (810), Henry Bessemer (1813), Rudolf Abel (1903), and W. H. Auden (1907).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, John Bunyan ranks 75. Before him are Eleanor Marx (1855), Thomas Hardy (1840), John le Carré (1931), Tony Buzan (1942), Jerome K. Jerome (1859), and Edgar Wallace (1875). After him are Julian Barnes (1946), W. H. Auden (1907), Frederick Forsyth (1938), Wilkie Collins (1824), Aubrey Beardsley (1872), and Philip Pullman (1946).

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