1620 - 1706
John Evelyn (31 October 1620 – 27 February 1706) was an English writer, landowner, gardener, courtier and minor government official, who is now best known as a diarist. He was a founding Fellow of the Royal Society. John Evelyn's diary, or memoir, spanned the period of his adult life from 1640, when he was a student, to 1706, the year he died. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Evelyn has received more than 401,479 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). John Evelyn is the 3,087th most popular writer (down from 2,999th in 2019), the 2,299th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,236th in 2019) and the 268th most popular British Writer.
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Among writers, John Evelyn ranks 3,087 out of 5,755. Before him are Guillén de Castro y Bellvis, René Daumal, Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, Sergey Solovyov, Wilfred Owen, and Dmitry Pisarev. After him are Ricarda Huch, Delmira Agustini, Gregory Benford, Licinius Macer Calvus, Antun Vrančić, and Heinrich Vogeler.
1569 - 1631
HPI: 51.40
Rank: 3,081
1908 - 1944
HPI: 51.40
Rank: 3,082
1938 - Present
HPI: 51.40
Rank: 3,083
1820 - 1879
HPI: 51.39
Rank: 3,084
1893 - 1918
HPI: 51.39
Rank: 3,085
1840 - 1868
HPI: 51.39
Rank: 3,086
1620 - 1706
HPI: 51.39
Rank: 3,087
1864 - 1947
HPI: 51.38
Rank: 3,088
1886 - 1914
HPI: 51.37
Rank: 3,089
1941 - Present
HPI: 51.37
Rank: 3,090
82 BC - 47 BC
HPI: 51.37
Rank: 3,091
1504 - 1573
HPI: 51.36
Rank: 3,092
1872 - 1942
HPI: 51.36
Rank: 3,093
Among people born in 1620, John Evelyn ranks 18. Before him are Nicholas Mercator, Prince Georg Friedrich of Waldeck, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, François Bernier, Masaniello, and Albert II, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach. After him are Isabella Leonarda, William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker, Matthew Hopkins, and Robert Morison. Among people deceased in 1706, John Evelyn ranks 10. Before him are 6th Dalai Lama, Andreas Werckmeister, Bernhard I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Arsenije III Čarnojević, Ferdinand de Marsin, and Rahman Baba. After him are Fyodor Alexeyevich Golovin, Georg Joseph Kamel, Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, Tylman van Gameren, and Jeanne Dumée.
1620 - 1687
HPI: 55.48
Rank: 12
1620 - 1692
HPI: 55.27
Rank: 13
1620 - 1680
HPI: 54.72
Rank: 14
1620 - 1688
HPI: 53.93
Rank: 15
1620 - 1647
HPI: 53.10
Rank: 16
1620 - 1667
HPI: 51.75
Rank: 17
1620 - 1706
HPI: 51.39
Rank: 18
1620 - 1704
HPI: 51.12
Rank: 19
1620 - 1684
HPI: 49.13
Rank: 20
1620 - 1647
HPI: 49.12
Rank: 21
1620 - 1683
HPI: 44.25
Rank: 22
1683 - 1706
HPI: 58.03
Rank: 4
1645 - 1706
HPI: 54.16
Rank: 5
1649 - 1706
HPI: 53.61
Rank: 6
1633 - 1706
HPI: 52.92
Rank: 7
1656 - 1706
HPI: 51.61
Rank: 8
1632 - 1706
HPI: 51.56
Rank: 9
1620 - 1706
HPI: 51.39
Rank: 10
1650 - 1706
HPI: 50.65
Rank: 11
1661 - 1706
HPI: 50.41
Rank: 12
1661 - 1706
HPI: 48.91
Rank: 13
1632 - 1706
HPI: 47.73
Rank: 14
1660 - 1706
HPI: 43.60
Rank: 15
Among people born in United Kingdom, John Evelyn ranks 2,299 out of 7,765. Before him are Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg (1889), John Stott (1921), Bernard Fox (1927), Kevin Ayers (1944), Wilfred Owen (1893), and Robert Stevenson (1905). After him are Christabel Pankhurst (1880), Paul Smith (1946), Richard Madden (1986), Eleanor of England, Countess of Leicester (1215), Lindsay Kemp (1938), and Eric Temple Bell (1883).
1889 - 1963
HPI: 51.41
Rank: 2,293
1921 - 2011
HPI: 51.41
Rank: 2,294
1927 - 2016
HPI: 51.40
Rank: 2,295
1944 - 2013
HPI: 51.40
Rank: 2,296
1893 - 1918
HPI: 51.39
Rank: 2,297
1905 - 1986
HPI: 51.39
Rank: 2,298
1620 - 1706
HPI: 51.39
Rank: 2,299
1880 - 1958
HPI: 51.39
Rank: 2,300
1946 - Present
HPI: 51.39
Rank: 2,301
1986 - Present
HPI: 51.36
Rank: 2,302
1215 - 1275
HPI: 51.36
Rank: 2,303
1938 - 2018
HPI: 51.36
Rank: 2,304
1883 - 1960
HPI: 51.35
Rank: 2,305
Among writers born in United Kingdom, John Evelyn ranks 268. Before him are Dodie Smith (1896), Richard Hammond (1969), Jack Higgins (1929), Winston Graham (1908), John Stott (1921), and Wilfred Owen (1893). After him are Charles Kingsley (1819), Branwell Brontë (1817), Anthony Berkeley Cox (1893), Lytton Strachey (1880), Ford Madox Ford (1873), and Walter Map (1140).
1896 - 1990
HPI: 51.51
Rank: 262
1969 - Present
HPI: 51.49
Rank: 263
1929 - 2022
HPI: 51.47
Rank: 264
1908 - 2003
HPI: 51.45
Rank: 265
1921 - 2011
HPI: 51.41
Rank: 266
1893 - 1918
HPI: 51.39
Rank: 267
1620 - 1706
HPI: 51.39
Rank: 268
1819 - 1875
HPI: 51.30
Rank: 269
1817 - 1848
HPI: 51.30
Rank: 270
1893 - 1971
HPI: 51.25
Rank: 271
1880 - 1932
HPI: 51.23
Rank: 272
1873 - 1939
HPI: 51.16
Rank: 273
1140 - 1210
HPI: 51.07
Rank: 274