1578 - 1634
John Webster (c. 1578 – c. 1632) was an English Jacobean dramatist best known for his tragedies The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi, which are often seen as masterpieces of the early 17th-century English stage. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Webster has received more than 788,841 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). John Webster is the 2,401st most popular writer (down from 1,502nd in 2019), the 1,842nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,171st in 2019) and the 205th most popular British Writer.
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Among writers, John Webster ranks 2,401 out of 5,755. Before him are Keigo Higashino, Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, Mihail Sadoveanu, Menasseh Ben Israel, T. H. White, and Alfonso Sastre. After him are Aleksander Chodźko, Rosario Castellanos, William L. Shirer, Winston Groom, Nennius, and Charles Berlitz.
1958 - Present
HPI: 53.71
Rank: 2,395
1532 - 1592
HPI: 53.71
Rank: 2,396
1880 - 1961
HPI: 53.71
Rank: 2,397
1604 - 1657
HPI: 53.70
Rank: 2,398
1906 - 1964
HPI: 53.70
Rank: 2,399
1926 - 2021
HPI: 53.70
Rank: 2,400
1578 - 1634
HPI: 53.69
Rank: 2,401
1804 - 1891
HPI: 53.69
Rank: 2,402
1925 - 1974
HPI: 53.69
Rank: 2,403
1904 - 1993
HPI: 53.68
Rank: 2,404
1943 - 2020
HPI: 53.68
Rank: 2,405
800 - 900
HPI: 53.68
Rank: 2,406
1913 - 2003
HPI: 53.67
Rank: 2,407
Among people born in 1578, John Webster ranks 11. Before him are Francesco Albani, Adam Elsheimer, Wolfgang Wilhelm, Count Palatine of Neuburg, Fede Galizia, Charles d'Albert, duc de Luynes, and Agostino Tassi. After him are Ahmed Mohammed al-Maqqari, Countess Catharina Belgica of Nassau, and Benedetto Castelli. Among people deceased in 1634, John Webster ranks 6. Before him are Albrecht von Wallenstein, Hendrick Avercamp, Maria Celeste, Adriano Banchieri, and Urbain Grandier. After him are Frederick Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, António de Andrade, John Albert Vasa, Johann von Aldringen, Edward Coke, and Dorothea of Anhalt-Zerbst.
1578 - 1660
HPI: 62.14
Rank: 5
1578 - 1610
HPI: 60.40
Rank: 6
1578 - 1653
HPI: 57.88
Rank: 7
1578 - 1630
HPI: 57.00
Rank: 8
1578 - 1621
HPI: 56.54
Rank: 9
1578 - 1644
HPI: 55.89
Rank: 10
1578 - 1634
HPI: 53.69
Rank: 11
1578 - 1632
HPI: 53.13
Rank: 12
1578 - 1648
HPI: 51.12
Rank: 13
1578 - 1643
HPI: 50.61
Rank: 14
1583 - 1634
HPI: 72.65
Rank: 1
1585 - 1634
HPI: 63.61
Rank: 2
1600 - 1634
HPI: 58.04
Rank: 3
1568 - 1634
HPI: 57.74
Rank: 4
1590 - 1634
HPI: 56.09
Rank: 5
1578 - 1634
HPI: 53.69
Rank: 6
1591 - 1634
HPI: 53.68
Rank: 7
1580 - 1634
HPI: 53.05
Rank: 8
1612 - 1634
HPI: 52.94
Rank: 9
1588 - 1634
HPI: 51.74
Rank: 10
1552 - 1634
HPI: 51.24
Rank: 11
1607 - 1634
HPI: 49.35
Rank: 12
Among people born in United Kingdom, John Webster ranks 1,842 out of 7,765. Before him are Charles Joughin (1878), Anne Lister (1791), Jimmy Somerville (1961), Raymond Williams (1921), Arthur Percival (1887), and Arthur Phillip (1738). After him are George Grenville (1712), Ronald Colman (1891), Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester (1355), Hamnet Shakespeare (1585), Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836), and Lady Hester Stanhope (1776).
1878 - 1956
HPI: 53.71
Rank: 1,836
1791 - 1840
HPI: 53.71
Rank: 1,837
1961 - Present
HPI: 53.70
Rank: 1,838
1921 - 1988
HPI: 53.70
Rank: 1,839
1887 - 1966
HPI: 53.69
Rank: 1,840
1738 - 1814
HPI: 53.69
Rank: 1,841
1578 - 1634
HPI: 53.69
Rank: 1,842
1712 - 1770
HPI: 53.69
Rank: 1,843
1891 - 1958
HPI: 53.68
Rank: 1,844
1355 - 1397
HPI: 53.68
Rank: 1,845
1585 - 1596
HPI: 53.67
Rank: 1,846
1836 - 1917
HPI: 53.67
Rank: 1,847
1776 - 1839
HPI: 53.67
Rank: 1,848
Among writers born in United Kingdom, John Webster ranks 205. Before him are Orderic Vitalis (1075), Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (1878), James Boswell (1740), Clive Barker (1952), Michael Jackson (1942), and Alan Sillitoe (1928). After him are Hamnet Shakespeare (1585), George Meredith (1828), Jojo Moyes (1969), Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster (1310), Tom Sharpe (1928), and John Cleland (1709).
1075 - 1142
HPI: 54.04
Rank: 199
1878 - 1957
HPI: 54.02
Rank: 200
1740 - 1795
HPI: 53.98
Rank: 201
1952 - Present
HPI: 53.91
Rank: 202
1942 - 2007
HPI: 53.86
Rank: 203
1928 - 2010
HPI: 53.82
Rank: 204
1578 - 1634
HPI: 53.69
Rank: 205
1585 - 1596
HPI: 53.67
Rank: 206
1828 - 1909
HPI: 53.66
Rank: 207
1969 - Present
HPI: 53.63
Rank: 208
1310 - 1361
HPI: 53.61
Rank: 209
1928 - 2013
HPI: 53.58
Rank: 210
1709 - 1789
HPI: 53.55
Rank: 211