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John Selden

1584 - 1654

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John Selden (16 December 1584 – 30 November 1654) was an English jurist, a scholar of England's ancient laws and constitution and scholar of Jewish law. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Selden has received more than 211,326 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). John Selden is the 67th most popular lawyer (down from 59th in 2019), the 3,250th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,209th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular British Lawyer.

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  • 210k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.88

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.75

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among LAWYERS

Among lawyers, John Selden ranks 67 out of 136. Before him are Roy Cohn, René David, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., James B. Donovan, Abdulqawi Yusuf, and William Rehnquist. After him are Koen Lenaerts, Navi Pillay, Wendell Willkie, Henry de Bracton, Lawrence Lessig, and Merrick Garland.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1584, John Selden ranks 21. Before him are Caspar Barlaeus, Philip, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Francis Beaumont, Barbara Sophie of Brandenburg, Grégoire de Saint-Vincent, and John II, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken. After him is Thomas van Erpe. Among people deceased in 1654, John Selden ranks 17. Before him are Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac, Jacques Lemercier, Christian I, Count Palatine of Birkenfeld-Bischweiler, Ole Worm, Matei Basarab, and Athanasius III of Constantinople. After him is Nicholas Culpeper.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Selden ranks 3,250 out of 8,785. Before him are Martin McGuinness (1950), Jonathan Wild (1683), Andy Goldsworthy (1956), Davy Jones (1945), Lady Byron (1792), and Dick Turpin (1705). After him are William Roxburgh (1751), Mike Spence (1936), Leonard Whiting (1950), Madge Syers (1881), Jennifer Saunders (1958), and Warren Clarke (1947).

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Among LAWYERS In United Kingdom

Among lawyers born in United Kingdom, John Selden ranks 3. Before him are Peter Benenson (1921), and William Blackstone (1723). After him are Henry de Bracton (1210), George Hadley (1685), A. V. Dicey (1835), Karim Ahmad Khan (1970), and Philippe Sands (1960).

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