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Jonathan Swift

1667 - 1745

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Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish writer, essayist, satirist, and Anglican cleric. He was the author of the satirical prose novel Gulliver's Travels (1726) and the creator of the fictional island of Lilliput, and he is regarded by many as the greatest satirist of the Georgian era and one of the foremost prose satirists in both English and world literature. Swift also authored works such as A Tale of a Tub (1704) and An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity (1712). He originally published all of his works under pseudonyms—including Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, M. B. Drapier—or anonymously. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 99 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 96 in 2024). Jonathan Swift is the 138th most popular writer (down from 99th in 2024), the 6th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 2nd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Irish Writer.

Jonathan Swift is most famous for his satirical novel, Gulliver's Travels.

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Among writers, Jonathan Swift ranks 138 out of 7,302. Before him are François Villon, Günter Grass, Haruki Murakami, Jean Cocteau, August Strindberg, and Charles Bukowski. After him are Paul Verlaine, Lewis Carroll, Boris Pasternak, Dr. Seuss, Yukio Mishima, and Karl Adolph Gjellerup.

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Among people born in 1667, Jonathan Swift ranks 1. After him are Johann Bernoulli, Abraham de Moivre, Maria Anna of Neuburg, Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, Queen Inhyeon, Antonio Lotti, Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri, Jan Kupecký, Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, Alessandro Magnasco, and Johann Christoph Pepusch. Among people deceased in 1745, Jonathan Swift ranks 1. After him are Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor, Robert Walpole, Jan Dismas Zelenka, Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt, Ibrahim Muteferrika, Tomaso Antonio Vitali, Ernest Frederick II, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Antoine Forqueray, Jean-Baptiste van Loo, François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie, and Christian Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Jonathan Swift ranks 6 out of 549. Before him are James Joyce (1882), Oscar Wilde (1854), Richard Harris (1930), George Bernard Shaw (1856), and Robert Boyle (1627). After him are Samuel Beckett (1906), George Berkeley (1685), Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener (1850), Mary Harris Jones (1837), John Scotus Eriugena (810), and Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (1819).

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Among WRITERS In Ireland

Among writers born in Ireland, Jonathan Swift ranks 4. Before him are James Joyce (1882), Oscar Wilde (1854), and George Bernard Shaw (1856). After him are Samuel Beckett (1906), Bram Stoker (1847), W. B. Yeats (1865), Augusta, Lady Gregory (1852), Laurence Sterne (1713), Joseph Murphy (1898), Iris Murdoch (1919), and Saint Gall (550).

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