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John Winthrop

1588 - 1649

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John Winthrop (January 12, 1588 – March 26, 1649) was an English Puritan lawyer and one of the leading figures in founding the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the second major settlement in New England following Plymouth Colony. Winthrop led the first large wave of colonists from England in 1630 and served as governor for 12 of the colony's first 20 years. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Winthrop has received more than 1,971,749 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). John Winthrop is the 3,510th most popular writer (down from 3,097th in 2019), the 2,590th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,312th in 2019) and the 300th most popular British Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, John Winthrop ranks 3,510 out of 5,755Before him are Butrus al-Bustani, Abdallah ibn al-Mu'tazz, Antonio Palomino, Daniel Boulanger, Rutka Laskier, and Janet Asimov. After him are Jerzy Giedroyc, Musine Kokalari, Ahmed Rami, Reinhard Bonnke, Roger Vailland, and Giuseppe Gioachino Belli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1588, John Winthrop ranks 18Before him are Pierre Séguier, Margherita Aldobrandini, Ole Worm, Johann von Aldringen, François de La Mothe Le Vayer, and Jan Janssonius.  Among people deceased in 1649, John Winthrop ranks 12Before him are David Teniers the Elder, Isaac van Ostade, Gerardus Vossius, Marie of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Juan Martínez Montañés, and Ustad Ahmad Lahori. After him are Vincenzo Carafa, Vittoria Farnese, Jean de Brébeuf, Susanna Hall, and Richard Crashaw.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Winthrop ranks 2,590 out of 7,765Before him are Alan Baddeley (1934), Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester (1640), Olivia Williams (1968), Ellen Terry (1847), Simon MacCorkindale (1952), and John Haigh (1909). After him are David Bailey (1938), Edwin Lutyens (1869), Warwick Davis (1970), Rutherford Alcock (1809), Douglas Bader (1910), and Nathaniel Bliss (1700).

Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, John Winthrop ranks 300Before him are Israel Zangwill (1864), Sue Townsend (1946), John Aubrey (1626), Siegfried Sassoon (1886), Francis de Laporte de Castelnau (1810), and Paul Johnson (1928). After him are Gertrude Jekyll (1843), Frances Burney (1752), Andrew Lang (1844), Anita Brookner (1928), Iain Banks (1954), and John Henry Mackay (1864).