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John Gay

1685 - 1732

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John Gay (30 June 1685 – 4 December 1732) was an English poet and dramatist and member of the Scriblerus Club. He is best remembered for The Beggar's Opera (1728), a ballad opera. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Gay has received more than 638,822 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). John Gay is the 1,697th most popular writer (down from 1,583rd in 2019), the 1,344th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,237th in 2019) and the 142nd most popular British Writer.

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  • 640k

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  • 56.51

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.57

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.04

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, John Gay ranks 1,697 out of 5,755. Before him are Ödön von Horváth, Branko Ćopić, François Pierre La Varenne, Julius Firmicus Maternus, Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, and Manuel Puig. After him are Adamantios Korais, Voltairine de Cleyre, Joseph Addison, Masaoka Shiki, Elsa Beskow, and Akiyuki Nosaka.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1685, John Gay ranks 11. Before him are Domenico Scarlatti, Marie Adélaïde of Savoy, Brook Taylor, Johann Maria Farina, Jean-Marc Nattier, and Edward England. After him are Bartolomeu de Gusmão, Farrukhsiyar, Sophia Louise of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, William Kent, Dominikus Zimmermann, and Francesco Loredan. Among people deceased in 1732, John Gay ranks 7. Before him are Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia, Emperor Reigen, André Charles Boulle, Louis Marchand, Woodes Rogers, and Joseph Johann Adam, Prince of Liechtenstein. After him are Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Baden-Durlach, Frederick II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Count Palatine Francis Louis of Neuburg, Marie Thérèse de Bourbon, Theodore Eustace, Count Palatine of Sulzbach, and Sebastiano Mocenigo.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Gay ranks 1,344 out of 7,765. Before him are Evelyn De Morgan (1855), Bernie Taupin (1950), David Icke (1952), Edmund Kean (1787), John Austin (1790), and Timothy Spall (1957). After him are William McDougall (1871), Joseph Addison (1672), Simon Rattle (1955), Claire Forlani (1971), Alma Reville (1899), and David Hartley (1705).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, John Gay ranks 142. Before him are David Ogilvy (1911), Barbara Cartland (1901), Ted Hughes (1930), Ruth Rendell (1930), Seamus Heaney (1939), and Walafrid Strabo (808). After him are Joseph Addison (1672), Alma Reville (1899), Arthur Machen (1863), Edward Lear (1812), Malcolm Lowry (1909), and Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837).

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