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John Evelyn

1620 - 1706

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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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  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.55

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.70

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, John Evelyn ranks 3,087 out of 5,755Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1620, John Evelyn ranks 18Before 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 10Before 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.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Evelyn ranks 2,299 out of 7,765Before 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).

Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, John Evelyn ranks 268Before 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).